headquarters, utterly undefended, were totally stripped; and Trenck
had, for his part of the booty, the King's tent and his service of
plate.

I have mentioned this circumstance here, because that, in the year
1740, my cousin Trenck, having fallen into the power of his enemies,
who had instituted a legal, process against him, was accused, by
some villanous wretches, of having surprised the King in bed at the
battle of Sorau, and of having afterwards released him for a bribe.

What was still worse, they hired a common woman, a native of Brunn,
who pretended she was the daughter of Marshal Schwerin, to give in
evidence that she herself was with the King when Trenck entered his
tent, whom he immediately made prisoner, and as immediately
released.

To this part of the prosecution I myself, an eye-witness, can
answer: the thing was false and impossible. He was informed of the
intended attack. I accompanied the watchful King from midnight till
four in the morning, which time he employed in riding through the
camp, and making the necessary preparations to receive the enemy;
and the action began at five. Trenck could not take the King in
bed, for the battle was almost gained when he and his pandours
entered the camp and plundered the head-quarters.

As for the tale of Miss Schwerin, it is only fit to be told by
schoolboys, or examined by the Inquisition, and was very unworthy of
making part of a legal prosecution against an innocent man at
Vienna.