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 thought proper to strike me; I demanded which he refusing contemptuously, I  a second, and attacked him in the open street. We fought; and I had the good fortune to wound in the hand and arm.

This affair was much talked of; and Doctor Kowalewski, our Professor, making a complaint the university, I was sentenced to three hours, but M. Warschaw, my grand-father,  with my spirit, took me out of the house;  placed me, as a boarder, with professor Chrisnni, There, for the first time, I began to enjoy  liberty.

Three days after, a professed bully forced me in manner to fight: I wounded him in the hip.

These successes so puffed me up, that I in public, with a sword of enormous length, and  the appendages of a prize-fighter.

I should certainly have become a duellist, if the of my heart, and my misfortunes, had  soon after brought me to reason. A fortnight scarcely elapsed from my last quarrel, before  had another with one of my friends, a Lieutenant of the garrison, whom I insulted. We fought I wounded him in two places.

Duelling, among the students, was not punished this period; it was looked upon as an honour to nd a challenge.

In November 1742, Baron Lottum, the King's General, a relation of my mother, was t by his Majesty to Koenigsbergh. He dined at grand-father's, chatted a good deal with me,  after having sounded me by a variety of questions, asked me if I should not be tempted to serve  country, as my ancestors had always done;, that in the army I should find more  opportunities of giving challenges, than