BARON FRANZ was b. in Reggio, in Calabria, on Jan. 1, 1711, where his father was an Austrian general. When 17 he received a commission as a cavalry officer, fought duels, and cut off the head of a man who refused to lend him money. He had to flee in consequensce, and lie went to Russia, where he was made a captain of hussars. He was then a formidable young giant of 6 ft. 3 in.; and it is highly probable that he knocked down his commanding officer, as lie says he did, for rebuking him. He adds that he was placed under arrest while an engagement was going on; that marshal Miinnich hap pening to pass, he called out that if set free and pardoned he would bring back three Turks' heads in an hour; that lie was set free and brought back four Turks' heads sus pended from his saddle. The story may or may not be true; but certain it is that he was cashiered not long afterward, and returned to settle on his estates in Croatia. There it is we first meet with the Trench of history. The Turkish frontier was overrun with banditti. Trenek armed and drilled 1000 of his tenants, whom he called Pandours, and by their means succeeded in restoring order. He then offered the services of his regiment to Maria Theresa, and his aid was accepted. In 1740 lie took part in the Sile
sian war at the head of his men, and perpetrated the most atrocious deeds of rapine and cruelty. There had been no such monster, says Mr. Carlyle, since Attila and Genghis. On Sept. 7, 1742, he attacked Cham, a fine trading town in neutral territory, this act being, of course, in defiance of all law and discipline; and he completely annihilated it. After the battle of Sohr, in Sept., 1745, he offered to capture Frederick the great, and bring him a prisoner to the Austrian camp. He failed in the enterprise, with great loss of men, but he secured the king's tent and much valuable booty. Suspicions were, however, entertained of his being in communication with the enemy, and lie was tried by court-martial. He was imprisoned at Vienna, but made his escape with the assistance of the baroness Lestock, who bribed the jailers to allow him to be con veyed in a coffin as if dead, beyond the city walls, was again captured at Bruges, and re-imprisoned at Grlttz, where he took poison, and died on Oct. 4, 1747.—See Carlyle's Life of Frederick the Great; and Memories the Baron Franz de Trench (Par. 1787), written by himself.