[A] Ordensland, the country that once belonged to the Teutonic Knights.
| Square Miles. | Inhabitants. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the year | 1688, the Elector left | 2034, | with about | 1,800,000. |
| " | 1713, King Frederic I. | 2090, | " | 1,700,000. |
| " | 1740, King Frederic Wm. I. | 2201, | " | 2,240,000. |
| " | 1786, King Frederic II. | 3490, | " | 6,000,000. |
| " | 1805, King Frederic II. | 6563, | " | 9,800,000. |
| (Before the exchange of Hanover.) | ||||
| " | 1807, remain | 2877, | " | 5,000,000. |
| " | 1817, were | 5015, | " | 10,600,000. |
| " | 1830, were 13,000,000 inhabitants; but in 1861, | 18,000,000. | ||
[Footnote 12]: "Journal de Seckendorf," 2nd Jan., 1738.
[Footnote 13]: Œuvres, t. xvii., nr. 140, p. 213.
[Footnote 14]: Ib., t. xviii., nr. 10.
[Footnote 15]: Portions of his historical works appear under special titles with many introductions. "The Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg" (begun 1746), the greatest part of it unimportant and compiled; "History of My Time" (written 1746-75), his masterpiece; then the great history of "The Seven Years' War" (ended 1764); finally, "Memoirs after the Hubertsburger Peace" (written 1775-79). They form, in spite of inequalities, a connected whole.
[Footnote 16]: V. Templehoff, "Siebenjähriger Krieg," i. p. 282.
[Footnote 17]: Sulzer to Gleim: "Briefe der Schweizer von Körte," p. 354.
[Footnote 18]: He had in 1759, a year before he wrote the foregoing words to the Marquis d'Argen, published through this friend, his treatise, "Réflections sur les Talons militaires et sur le Caractère de Charles XII. Roi de Suède," one of the most remarkable works of the King. His view of the faults of Charles XII. was sharpened by the personal experience which he had himself made in the lost battles of the last year, and, whilst he judges respect fully the unfortunate conqueror, he at the same time claims for himself higher credit for his own moderate policy. The work is, therefore, not only a very characteristic record of his wise moderation, but also a memorial of quiet self-enfranchisement and of great inward progress.
[Footnote 19]: Œuvres, xxvii. 1, nr. 328, from 17 Sept.