onfused form have been printed; but shall
be spared the English reader. And Grumkow has been out at Custrin,
preaching to the same purport from other texts: Grumkow, with the
thought ever present to him, "What if Friedrich Wilhelm should die?"
is naturally an eloquent preacher. Enough, it has been settled (perhaps
before the day of Katte's death, or at the latest three days after it,
as we can see), That if the Prince will, and can with free conscience,
take an Oath ("no mental reservation," mark you!) of contrite
repentance, of perfect prostrate submission, and purpose of future
entire obedience and conformity to the paternal mind in all things,
"GNADENWAHL" included,--the paternal mind may possibly relax his durance
a little, and put him gradually on proof again. [King's Letter to
Muller, 8th November (Forster, i. 379).]

Towards which issue, as Chaplain Muller reports, the Crown-Prince is
visibly gravitating, with all his weight and will. The very GNADENWAHL
is settled; the young soul (truly a lover of Truth, your Majesty) taps
on his ceiling, my floor being overhead, before the winter sun rises,
as a signal that I must come down to him; so eager to have error and
darkness purged away. Believes himself, as I believe him, ready to
undertake that Oath; desires, however, to see it first, that he may
maturely study every clause of it.--Say you verily so? answers Majesty.
And MAY my ursine heart flow out again, and blubber gratefully over a
sinner saved, a poor Son plucked as brand from the burning?"God, the
Most High, give His blessing on it, then!" concludes the paternal
Majesty: "And as He often, by wondrous guidances, strange paths and
thorny steps, will bring men into the Kingdom of Christ, so may
our Divine Redeemer help that this prodigal son be brought into His
communion. That his godless heart be beaten till it is softened and
changed; and so he be snatched from the claws of Satan. This grant us
the Almighty God and Father, for our Lord Jesus Christ and His passion
and death's sake! Amen!--I am, for the rest, your well-affectioned King,
FRIEDRICH WILHELM (WUSTERHAUSEN, 8th NOVEMBER, 1730)." [Forster, i.
379.]

CROWN-PRINCE BEGINS A NEW COURSE.

It was Monday, 6th November, when poor Katte died. Within a fortnight,
on the second Sunday after, there has a Select Commission, Grumkow,
Borck, Buddenbrock, with three other Soldiers, and the Privy Councillor
Thulmeyer, come out to Custrin: there and then, Sunda