Historical and authentic account of the ancient and noble family of Keith, Earls Marichal of Scotland

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of this kind. The kino- and the prinre-sncces*
sor seemed to rival each other n testil ng
the high esteem which thry enteitaiued for
Mr. Keith. On ne ( w-year s day, this monarch
made him a present of a very splendid sword ;
and when he had his audience of leave, on
the 23rd of June, by which time he had.
brought all the affairs with which he was
charged to a happy issue, he received another
swoid, together with the Prince successor's
picture, and 2000 ducats [.£1000 sterling]
in money. The Russian troops began their
march back to their own country the 2nd of
August, and the Empress gave a most gra-
cious reception to her general and ambassa-
dor, alike succeslul in conducting the oper-
ations of war and negotiations for peace.
In the year 17'i5, when the king of Prus-
sia entered Saxony, in order to prevent the
designs which his enemies had formed upon
Silesia, the king of Poland asked succours
from Russia. The troops of that nation hav-
ing already assembled by order of the Empress
in Lithuania and Courland, that they might
advance the more readily when any emer-
gence should render it expedient, Mr. Keith
was declared commander in chief of these
forces, and had under him Mess De Brilly,
Soltikow, Lapuchin, Stuart and Brown.
The Battle of Kesseldorf and the taking of
Dresden, in the mean time, put a speedy
end to the war; and the Russians also seemed
to be convinced that the Prussian monarch