"At Reinsberg as elsewhere, at Reinsberg first of all, it had been felt,
in October last, that there would be Manifestoes needed; learned Proof,
the more irrefragable the better, of our Right to Silesia. It was
settled there, Let Ludwig, Kanzler of the University of Halle, do it.
[Herr Kanzler Ludwig, monster of Antiquarian, Legal and other Learning
there: wealthy, too, and close-fisted; whom we have seen obliged to open
his closed fist, and to do building in the Friedrich Strasse, before
now; Nussler, his son-in-law, having no money:--as careless readers
have perhaps forgotten?] Ludwig set about his new task with a proud
joy. Ludwig knows that story, if he know anything. Long years ago he
put forth a Chapter upon it; weighty Chapter; in a Book of weight, said
Judges;--Book weighing, in pounds avoirdupois and otherwise, none of
us now knows what: [Title of this weighty Performance (see Preuss,
_Thronbesteigung,_ p. 432) is, or was (size not given), _Germania
Princeps_ (Halae, 1702). Preuss says farther, "That Book ii. c. 3
handles the Prussian claims: Jagerndorf being? 13; Liegnitz,? 14; Oppeln
and Ratibor,? 16;--and that Ludwig had sent a Copy of this Argument
[weighty Performance altogether? Or Book ii. c. 3 of it, which would
have had a better chance?] to King Friedrich, on the death of Kaiser
Karl VI."]--but, in after years, it used to be said by flatterers of the
Kanzler, 'Herr Kanzler, see the effect of Learning. It was you, it was
your weighty Book, that caused all this World-tumult, and flung the
Nations into one another's hair!' Upon which the old Kanzler would
blush: 'You do me too much honor!'

"Ludwig, directly on order given, gathered out his documents again, in
the King's name this time; and promised something weighty by New-year's
day at latest." Doubtless to the joy of Nussler, who has still no
regular appointment, though well deserving one. "And sure enough, on
January 7th, at Berlin, 'in three languages,' Ludwig's DEDUCTION had
come out; an eager Public waiting for it: [Title is, _Rechtsgegrundetes
Eigenthum_ (in the Latin copies, _Patrimonium,_ and _Propriete fondee en
Droit_ in the French copies) _des &c.,_--that is to say, _Legal Right of
Property in the Royal-Electoral House of Brandenburg to the Duchies
and Principalities of Jagerndorf, Liegnitz, Brieg, Wohlau_ (Berlin,
7th January, 1741).]--and at Berlin it was generally thought to be
conclusive. I have looked into Ludwig's Deduction, stern du