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THE Author of this Tragedy, Mr Schiller, was educated in the Ecole Militaire, founded by the Duke of Wirtemberg. At the age of twenty-three, he wrote this piece, which procured him the highest reputation over all Germany; but the rigour of that institution, to whose discipline he was then subjected, being adverse to such pursuits, he was prohibited the use of his pen, under pain of imprisonment. Indignant at this unworthy restraint, he left his native country, and now resides at Manheim, where he has the title of Aulic Counsellor of the Palatinate of Bavaria. Besides this Tragedy, he is the Author of two others, The Conspiracy of Fiesco, and Cabal and Love. He waslikewise

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