History of Friedrich II of Prussia, appendix | Page 3

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APPENDIX.

This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four
or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH
got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident,
all or mostly written at the same time:--these also, though they are now
become, in parts, SUPERFLUOUS to a reader that has been diligent, I
have not thought of changing, where not compelled. Here and there,
especially in the Introductory Part, some slight additions have crept
in;--which the above kind of reader will possibly enough detect; and
may even have, for friendly reasons, some vestige of interest in
assigning to their new date and comparing with the old. (NOTE OF
1868.)

A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH. (23d July, 1779.)
"OBERAMTMANN (Head-Manager) Fromme" was a sister's son of
Poet, Gleim,--Gleim Canon of Halberstadt, who wrote Prussian
"grenadier- songs" in, or in reference to, the Seven-Years War, songs
still printed, but worth little; who begged once, after Friedrich's death,
an OLD HAT of his, and took it with him to Halberstadt (where I hope
it still is); who had a "Temple-of-Honor," or little Garden-house so
named, with Portraits of his Friends hung in it; who put Jean Paul
VERY SOON there, with a great explosion of praises; and who, in
short, seems to have been a very good effervescent creature, at last
rather wealthy too, and able to effervesce with some
comfort;--Oberamtmann Fromme, I say, was this Gleim's Nephew; and
stood as a kind of Royal Land-Bailiff under Frederick the Great, in a
tract of country called the RHYN-LUCH (a dreadfully moory country
of sands and quagmires, all green and fertile now, some twenty or thirty
miles northwest of Berlin); busy there in 1779, and had been for some
years past. He had originally been an Officer of the Artillery; but
obtained his discharge in 1769, and got, before long, into this
employment. A man of excellent disposition and temper; with a solid
and heavy stroke of work in him, whatever he might be set to; and who
in this OBERAMTMANNSHIP "became highly esteemed." He died in
1798; and has left sons (now perhaps grandsons or great-grandsons),

who continue estimable in like situations under the Prussian
Government.
One of Fromme's useful gifts, the usefulest of all for us at present, was
"his wonderful talent of exact memory." He could remember to a
singular extent; and, we will hope, on this occasion, was unusually
conscientious to do it. For it so happened, in July, 1779 (23d July),
Friedrich, just home from his troublesome Bavarian War, [Had arrived
at Berlin May 27th (Rodenbeck, iii. 201).] and again looking into
everything with his own eyes, determined to have a personal view of
those Moor Regions of Fromme's; to take a day's driving through that
RHYN-LUCH which had cost him so much effort and outlay; and he
ordered Fromme to attend him in the expedition. Which took effect
accordingly;