Excerpt from The Critical Review: Or Annals of Literature We are informed, in an advertisement prefixed to these Memoirs, that they were sent from Berlin by the earl Marshal to Mr Hume, with a desire that they should be published in England: and, the booksel'er imagining that an English edition would be more agreeable to British readers than the original French, the celebrated historian abovementioned, gave his consent to the publication of this translation of the work. As the author, general Manstein, was himself engaged in most of the transactions which he relates, and had access to the best information, few memoirs can boast of greater authenticity than these now before us, which contain the successive alternate reigns of three unfortunate young princes, and as many princesses of the Ruffian empire. When we consider that it was only under the government of the monarch immediately preceding the commencements of this history, that that prodigious empire emerged from barbarity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.