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1160 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
weeks he was advanced to the post of sergeant in the regiment,
which was commanded by General von Forcade. After a severe
illness he obtained permission through the General to finish his
studies at the University of Halle. This permission, however, he
forfeited in 1728, when on account of a slight technical offence
during a review in Potsdam, he received a severe personal reprimand
from the King of Prussia, and was degraded to the post of a private
musketeer. For three years he was in this subordinate position ;
but meanwhile the regiment in which he was placed came under
the command of the Crown-Prince of Prussia, who very soon felt
drawn towards the young student, and advanced him again to the
post of sergeant. In 1733 he was detached from the regiment, and
sent out with a lieutenant on a long recruiting expedition, during
which he visited Vienna, and went even as far as Agram in Croatia.
During this trip he was treated in a most friendly manner by the
Jesuits. Immediately after his return to his regiment in 1734, he
was sent out on a second recruiting expedition to Austria and
Hungary. The favour shown to him by the Crown-Prince had excited
the envy of many of his comrades, so that these expeditions were
highly welcome to him; he therefore gladly embraced the opportunity
in 1735 of entering on a third similar expedition, which took him
to Munich. There he acted also in the capacity of a secret military
agent, in order to find out the actual military strength of the
Elector of Bavaria. In May, 1736, he returned to his regiment,
when he was sent by the Crown-Prince on a fourth recruiting
expedition to Italy, which gave him an opportunity of seeing Rome
and Venice. In May, 1738, he returned again to his regiment,
which was stationed at Ruppin, where he remained during a whole
year, when he was sent out on a fifth expedition, in company with
a secret enemy, by whom he was calumniated at home. The result
of this calumniation was that he received a note from the Crown
Prince, in which he expressed his displeasure, and threatened him
with additional marks of his dissatisfaction. Cuno felt unable to
put up any longer with such treatment, wherefore he resolved to
desert from the Prussian army. On his return to Germany he tried
in vain to find a position in the Universities of Tübingen and Mar
burg, either in a literary or artistic capacity,-for he was a poet,
as well as an artist; until at last, on the advice of Professor
Christian von Wolf, the famous philosopher, who was at that time
professor at Marburg, he resolved to try his fortune in Holland.
After an eventful journey from Marburg to Amsterdam, he managed
within a year to marry the rich widow of a merchant, through
whom he came into the possession of the extensive business of her
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