BOOK III

Stanislas Leczinski chosen King of Poland--Death of the

Cardinal-Primate--Great retreat of General Schullemburg--Exploits

of the Czar--Foundation of Petersburg--Charles’s entry into

Saxony--The peace of Altranstadt--Augustus abdicates in favour of

Stanislas--General Patkul, the Czar’s plenipotentiary, is broken on

the wheel, and quartered--Charles receives the ambassadors of

foreign princes in Saxony--He also goes to Dresden to see Augustus

before his departure. 97

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