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 was a decided friend to the far-famed baron Trenck; and there can be no doubt, that his attachment for the princess, was the cause of Trenck's misfortunes. Frederick was incensed that a subject should aspire to the hand of his sister. She continued her attachment to Trenck, when both had grown old, and Frederick was in his grave, but death prevented her from providing for Trenck's children as she intended.

ANNA OF HUNGARY, the daughter of Ladislaus the Second, king of Hungary, and Bohemia; she was born on the 25th. of July, 1503, and married in 1521, to Ferdinand of Austria, brother of Charles the Fifth, and afterwards his successor in 1558, as emperor of Germany. The death of Lujos, or Louis the Second, son and successor to Ladislaus, on the battle field of Mohacs, in 1526, transferred to Anna's husband the crowns of Hungary and Bohemia. His claims to the former were resisted by Zapolya, with whom he eventually agreed to share the kingdoms. Anna died at Prague in, childbirth, on the 27th. of January, 1547, when she was forty-four years of age. She was the mother of three sons and eleven daughters, and chiefly remarkable for her humility. It is recorded in her funeral sermon, preached by Nausea, that she was accustomed to wear mean and old apparel more like that of a servant than a queen.

ANNA, PERENNA, of Belus, king of Tyre, and sister of Dido, whom she accompanied in her flight to Carthage. She was worshipped as a goddess by the ancient Romans, under the above title, and sacrifices were offered to her both publicly and privately.

ANNA PETROVNA, the eldest daughter of Peter the Great, by his second wife Catharine; she was born on the 27th. of February, 1708, and married, on the 28th. of May, 1725, a few months after the death of her father, to Charles Frederick, duke of Holstein-Gottorp, who not only lost his chance of succession to the crown of Sweden, to which he had claims as the nephew of Charles the Twelfth, but was also deprived of his hereditary dominions by the king of Denmark, who was, however, compelled to restore half of them by the Czar Peter, in whose court and that of the Empress Catharine, the duke of Holstein and his wife resided until after the death of the tatter; when the duke's rival. Prince Menshikov, obtained the ascendancy over the young emperor, yet a junior, whose guardian Anna Petrovna had been nominated by the late empress, and obliged Anna and her husband to quit the Russian dominions. They accordingly removed, in July, 1727, to Kiel, where the duchess gave birth to a son, Peter Ulric, who was destined to receive the offer of both the Swedish and Russian crowns, and to perish the victim of his greatness. Three months after his birth his mother died; and soon after, in 1736, the widower instituted, in her honour, the order of St. Anne, which has been adopted in Russia, and is now the fourth order of knighthood in that empire. Anna Petrovna was the favourite daughter of Peter, whom she greatly resembled. She was remarkably beautiful and accomplished.