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The young Lieutenant was sentenced by Court Martial to two years' imprisonment for aiding Frederick in his contemplated flight, but the King ignored the verdict and demanded that the young man be put to death. In the early morning of November 6th, Katte, after being barbarously ill treated by the Prussian King, was executed in the sight of Prince Frederick at the fortress of Custrin, where the Crown Prince was incarcerated. It has been said that Frederick's life would also have been sacrificed by his irate, inhuman father but for the intercessions of the Kings of Sweden and Poland, and Frederick William's fear of the Em peror. At one time Frederick was Offered his free dom and told by the King that he would be at liberty to go where he pleased, and do what he liked, if he would renounce the succession in favor of his younger brother, Augustus William. Frederick replied, My life is not over-dear to me. I will accept the proposal if my father will publicly declare that I am not really his son.

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