National Gazette

An English paper, in relating a skirmish between some French and Prussian troops, remarks, that the king of Prussia had a very narrow escape: a ball fell near him, and frightened his horse so much that he was near falling on him. Every reader must smile with contempt when he reads of a royal escape from such a trifling danger. History furnishes us with similar records. At the battle of Fontenoy, Louis the 15th is celebrated for his wonderful bravery, who from the steeple of a church beheld the conflict; and such was his ardour, that he left his snug hole, mounted his horse, and rode to where some balls fell near him! Enough and enough too has been said about the escape which George, the Lord's anointed in Britain, had from an old woman with a blunt case-knife. In short, if only a musquito bites some royal nose, all Europe must resound with it.