unting;
killed sixty elks [Melton-Mowbray may consider it],--creatures of the
deer sort, nimble as roes, but strong as bulls, and four palms higher
than the biggest horse,--to the astonishment of Seckendorf, Ginkel and
the strangers there. Half an hour short of Pillau, furious electricity
again; thunder-bolt shivered an oak-tree fifteen yards from Majesty's
carriage. And at Pillau itself, the Battalion in Garrison there, drawn
out in arms, by Count Finkenstein, to receive his Majesty [rain over
by this time, we can hope], had suddenly to rush forward and take new
ground; Frische Haf, on some pressure from the elements, having suddenly
gushed out, two hundred paces beyond its old watermark in that place."
[See Mauvillon, ii. 293-297;--CORRECTING by Fassmann, p. 422.]

Pillau, Fischhausen,--this is where the excellent old Adalbert stamped
the earth with his life "in the shape of a crucifix" eight hundred years
ago: and these are the new phenomena there!--The General Dockum, Colonel
of Dragoons, whom his Majesty dined with at Wehlau, got his death not
many months after. One of Dockum's Dragoon Lieutenants felt insulted at
something, and demanded his discharge: discharge given, he challenged
Dockum, duel of pistols, and shot him dead. [7th April, 1732
(_Militair-Lexikon,_ i. 365).] Nothing more to be said of Dockum, nor of
that Lieutenant, in military annals.

CASE OF THE CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM ITSELF.

And thus was the error of the Criminal-Collegium rectified IN RE
Schlubhut. For it is not in name only, but in fact, that this Sovereign
is Supreme Judge, and bears the sword in God's stead,--interfering
now and then, when need is, in this terrible manner. In the same dim
authentic Benekendorf (himself a member of the Criminal-Collegium
in later times), and from him in all the Books, is recorded another
interference somewhat in the comic vein; which also we may give.
Undisputed fact, again totally without precision or details; not even
datable, except that, on study, we perceive it may have been before this
Schlubhut's execution, and after the Criminal-Collegium had committed
their error about him,--must have been while this of Schlubhut was still
vividly in mind; Here is the unprecise but indubitable fact, as the
Prussian Dryasdust has left us his smear of it:--

"One morning early" (might be before Schlubhut was hanged, and while
only sentence of imprisonment and restitution lay on him), General Graf
von Donhof, Colo