tive
garrulity which pretend to record them for us. Whether it came into
existence as a shadowy emanation from the Stralsund Expedition, can only
be matter of conjecture. To judge by size, these figures must have been
painted about the year 1715; Fritz some three or four years old, his
sister Wilhelmina seven.

It remains only to be intimated, that Friedrich Wilhelm, for his part,
had got all he claimed from this Expedition: namely, Stettin with the
dependent Towns, and quietness in Pommern. Stettin was, from of old, the
capital of his own part of Pommern; thrown in along with the other parts
of Pommern, and given to Sweden (from sheer necessity, it was avowed),
at the Peace of Westphalia, sixty years ago or more:--and now, by
good chance, it has come back. Wait another hundred years, and perhaps
Swedish Pommern altogether will come back! But from all this Friedrich
Wilhelm is still far. Stettin and quiet are all he dreams of demanding
there.

Stralsund he did not reckon his; left it with the Danes, to hold in pawn
till some general Treaty. Nor was there farther outbreak of war in those
regions; though actual Treaty of Peace did not come till 1720, and
make matters sure. It was the new Queen of Sweden, Ulrique
Eleonora (Charles's younger Sister, wedded to the young Landgraf of
Hessen-Cassel),--much aided by an English Envoy,--who made this Peace
with Friedrich Wilhelm. A young English Envoy, called Lord Carteret, was
very helpful in this matter; one of his first feats in the diplomatic
world. For which Peace, [Stockholm, 21st January, 1720: in Mauvillon
(i. 380-417) the Document itself at large.] Friedrich Wilhelm was so
thankful, good pacific armed-man, that happening to have a Daughter born
to him just about that time, he gave the little creature her Swedish
Majesty's name; a new "Ulrique," who grew to proper stature, and became
notable in Sweden, herself, by and by. [Louisa Ulrique, born 24th July,
1720; Queen of Sweden in time coming.]

Chapter VII. -- TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.

In the Autumn of 1717, Peter the Great, coming home from his celebrated
French journey, paid Friedrich Wilhelm a visit; and passed four days at
Berlin. Of which let us give one glimpse, if we can with brevity.

Friedrich Wilhelm and the Czar, like in several points, though so
dissimilar in others, had always a certain regard for one another; and
at this time, they had been brought into closer intercourse by their
common peril from C