One of my grooms, with two led horses, was, among many others, taken
by the pandours of Trenck. When I returned to the camp, I was to
accompany the King on a reconnoitring party. My horse was too
tired, and I had no other: I informed him of my embarrassment, and
his Majesty immediately made me a present of a fine English courser.

Some days after, I was exceedingly astonished to see my groom
return, with my two horses, and a pandour trumpeter, who brought me
a letter, containing nearly the following words:-

"The Austrian Trenck is not at war with the Prussian Trenck, but, on
the contrary, is happy to have recovered his horses from his
hussars, and to return them to whom they first belonged," &c.

I went the same day to pay my respects to the King, who, receiving
me with great coldness, said, "Since your cousin has returned your
own horses, you have no more need of mine."

There were too many who envied me to suppose these words would
escape repetition. The return of the horses seems infinitely to
have increased that suspicion Frederic entertained against me, and
therefore became one of the principal causes of my misfortunes: it
is for this reason that I dwell upon this and suchlike small
incidents, they being necessary for my own justification, and, were
it possible, for that of the King. My innocence is, indeed, at
present universally acknowledged by the court, the army, and the
whole nation; who all mention the injustice I suffered with pity,
and the fortitude with which it was endured with surprise.

We marched for Silesia, to enter on our second campaign: which, to