Excerpt from Passages From My Life: Together With Memoirs of the Campaign of 1813 and 1814
The Baron Von Muffling died at his estate near Erfurt, on the 16th of January, 1851, aged 77. The Work of which the first portion of this Volume is a translation, entitled, "Aus meinem Leben" was published immediately after the decease of the Author, according to his desire. It was reviewed at great length in the Quarterly Review for December 1851, and especially recommended as deserving translation.
The concluding part of the original German Work consists of a narrative of a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, with which the Author was intrusted by his sovereign in 1829, and in which he had to play the part of mediator between the Emperor of Russia and the Sultan. He was successful in fixing the terms of peace between these two Powers, and received the cordial thanks of the Emperor Nicholas for his services, with the order of St. Wladimir.
This part of the Work scarcely possesses sufficient interest for English readers, and therefore the Translator has preferred to give the Author"s Narrative of the Campaigns of 1813 and 1814, to which, as he states, a great part of the "Passages" is to be considered as a supplement.
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