Karl Philip; he wooed hard;
threw the Princess into great perplexity. She had given her Yes to James
Sobieski; inevitable wedding-day was coming on with James; and here was
Karl Philip wooing so:--in brief, the result was, she galloped off with
Karl Philip, on the eve of said wedding-day; married Karl Philip (24th
July, 1688); and left Prince James standing there, too much like Lot's
Wife, in the astonished Court of Berlin. [Michaelis, ii. 93.] Judge if
the Berlin public talked,--unintelligible to Friedrioh Wilhelm, then
safe in swaddling-clothes.

King Sobieski, the Father, famed Deliverer of Vienna, was in high
dudgeon. But Karl Philip apologized, to all lengths; made his peace at
last, giving a Sister of his own to be Wife to the injured James. This
was Karl Philip's first outbreak in life; and it was not his only one. A
man not ill-disposed, all grant; but evidently of headlong turn, with
a tendency to leap fences in this world. He has since been soldiering
about, in a loose way, governing Innspruck, fighting the Turks. But,
lately, his elder Brother died childless (year 1716); and left him
Kurfurst of the Pfalz. His fair Radzivil is dead long ago; she, and a
successor, or it may be two. Except one Daughter, whom the fair Radzivil
left him, he has no children; and in these times, I think, lives with a
third Wife, of the LEFT-HAND kind.

His scarcity of progeny is not so indifferent to my readers as they
might suppose. This new KUR-PFALZ (Elector-Palatine) Karl Philip is by
genealogy--who, thinks the reader? Pfalz-NEUBURG by line; own Grandson
of that Wolfgang Wilhelm, who got the slap on the face long since, on
account of the Cleve-Julich matter! So it has come round. The Line of
Simmern died out, Winter-King's Grandson the last of that; and then, as
right was, the Line of Neuburg took the top place, and became Kur-Pfalz.
The first of these was this Karl Philip's Father, son of the Beslapped;
an old man when he succeeded. Karl Philip is the third Kur-Pfalz of the
Neuburg Line; his childless elder Brother (he who collected the Pictures
at Dusseldorf, once notable there) was second of the Neuburgs. They now,
we say, are Electors-Palatine, Head of the House;--and, we need not
add, along with their Electorate and Neuburg Country, possess the
Cleve-Julioh Moiety of Heritage, about which there was such worrying
in time past. Nay the last Kur-Pfalz resided there, and collected the
"Dusseldorf Gallery," as we have just sai