- The Other Gentlemen
Had Also Their Fetters Taken Off, And The Prince Asked Pardon Of Them
Severally For The Injury He Had Done Them; Then Made Them Sit Down And
Partake Of A Handsome Collation At That Table, Before Which They Had So
Lately Stood As Delinquents At A Bar.
The Russians are excessive in their carouses, and prince Menzikoff being
now in an admirable good humour, made them drink very freely:
- To be the
more obliging to his guests, he began the king of Sweden's health in a
bumper of brandy, protesting at the same time, that tho' an enemy to his
master, he loved and venerated the hero: Horatio on this ventured to
enquire in what condition his majesty was; to which the prince replied,
that being greatly wounded, he was obliged to leave the field, and, it
was believed, had took the load toward the dominions of the grand
signior, some of the Russian troops having pursued him as far as the
Borysthenes where, by the incredible valour of a few that attended him,
they had been beat back.
The Swedish officers knew it must be bad indeed when their king was
compelled to fly; and this renewed in them a melancholy, which it was
not in the power of liquor, or the present civilities of the prince to
dissipate: they also learned that the generals Renchild, Slipenbock,
Hamilton, Hoorn, Leuenhaup, and Stackelburg, with the prince of
Wirtemburg, count Piper, and the flower of the whole army, were
prisoners at Muscow.
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