tter. A Saxon
Ambassador was also here, waiting some time; message thought to
be insignificant:--probably some vague admonitory stuff again from
Kur-Sachsen (Polish King, son of August the Strong, a very insignificant
man), who acts as REICHS-VICARIUS in those Northern parts." For the
reader is to know, there are Reichs-Vicars more than one (nay more than
two on this occasion, with considerable jarring going on about them);
and I could say much about their dignities, limits, duties, [Adelung,
ii. 143, &c.; Kohler, _Reichs-Historie,_ pp. 585-589.]--if indeed
there were any duties, except dramatic ones! But the Reich itself, and
Vicarship along with it, are fallen into a nearly imaginary condition;
and the Regensburg Diet (not Princes now, but mere Delegates of Princes,
mostly Bombazine People), which, "ever since 1663," has sat continual,
instead of now and then, is become an Enchanted Piggery, strange to
look upon, under those earnest stars. "As King Friedrich did not call
at Greslau," after those Neisse bombardments, but rolled past, straight
homewards, the three Excellencies all departed,--Borck and Gotter to
Berlin, the Saxon home again with his insignificant message.

"JANUARY 19th. Schwerin too was here in the course of the winter, to
see how the magazines and other war-preparations were going on: Breslau
outwardly and inwardly is whirling with business, and offers phenomena.
For instance, it is known that the Army-Chest, heaps of silver and gold
in it, lies in the Scultet Garden-House, where the King lodged; and that
only one sentry walks there, and that in the guard-house itself, which
is some way off, there are only thirty men. January 19th, about 9 of
the clock, [_Helden-Geschichte,_ i. 700.] alarm rises, That 2,000
DIEBS-GESINDEL (Collective Thief-rabble of Breslau and dependencies)
are close by; intending a stroke upon said Garden-House and Army-Chest!
Perhaps this rumor sprang of its own accord;--or perhaps not quite?
It had been very rife; and ran high; not without remonstrances in
Town-Hall, and the like, which we can imagine. Issue was, The Officer on
post at Scultet's loaded his treasure in carts; conveyed it, that
same night, to the interior of the City, in fact to the OBERAMTS-HAUS
(Government-House that was);--which doubtless was a step in the right
direction. For now the Two Feld-Kriegs-Commissariat Gentlemen (one of
whom is the expert Munchow, son of our old Custrin friend), supreme
Prussian Authori