ten,
and requiring a word from us:

Old King Victor Amadeus of Sardinia had solemnly abdicated in favor of
his Son; went, for a twelvemonth or more, into private felicity with an
elderly Lady-love whom he had long esteemed the first of women;--tired
of such felicity, after a twelvemonth; demanded his crown back, and
could not get it! Lady-love and he are taken prisoners; lodged in
separate castles: [2d September, 1730 abdicated, went to Chambery;
reclaims, is locked in Rivoli, 8th October, 1731 (news of it just come
to Schulenburg); dies there, 31st October, 1732, his 67th year.] and the
wrath of the proud old gentleman is Olympian in character,--split an oak
table, smiting it while he spoke (say the cicerones);--and his silence,
and the fiery daggers he looks, are still more emphatic. But the young
fellow holds out; you cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your
Majesty! say his new Ministers. Is and will continue King. "Not a bad
stroke of him," thinks Schulenburg,----"especially if his Father meant
to play him the same trick," that is, clap him in prison. Not a bad
stroke;--which perhaps there is another that could imitate, "if HIS Papa
gave him the opportunity! But THIS Papa will take good care; and the
Queen will not forget the Sardinian business, when he talks again of
abdicating," as he does when in ill-humor.--

"But now had not we better have been friends with England, should war
rise upon that Sardinian business? General Schulenburg,"--the famed
Venetian Field-marshal, bruiser of the Turks in Candia, [Same who was
beaten by Charles XII. before; a worthy soldier nevertheless, say
the Authorities: LIFE of him by Varnhagen von Ense (_Biographische
Denkmale,_ Berlin, 1845).] my honored Uncle, who sometimes used to visit
his Sister the Maypole, now EMERITA, in London, and sip beer and take
tobacco on an evening, with George I. of famous memory,--he also "writes
me this Victor-Amadeus news, from Paris;" so that it is certain; Ex-King
locked in Rivoli near a fortnight ago: "he, General Schulenburg, says
farther, To judge by the outside, all appears very quiet; but many
think, at the bottom of the bag it will not be the same."--

"I am, with respect," your Excellency's much in buckram,

"LE COMTE DE SCHOULENBOURG."

[Forster, iii. 73-75.]

So far Lieutenant-General Schulenburg; whom we thank for these
contemporary glimpses of a young man that has become historical, and of
the scene he lived in. And wit