lon, i. 347, 349.]

That was Friedrich Wilhelm's plan; the simplest, but probably the one
effectual plan. Infallible this plan, if you dare stand upon it; which
Friedrich Wilhelm does. He has a formidable Army, ready for fight; a
Treasury or Army-chest in good order. George I. seconds, according to
bargain; shuts the Catholic Church at Zelle in his Luneburg Country, in
like fashion; Dutch, too, and Swiss will endorse the matter, should
it grow too serious. All which, involving some diplomacy and
correspondence, is managed with the due promptitude, moreover. [Church
of Zelle shut up, 4th November; Minden, 28th November; Monastery of
Hamersleben, 3d December, &c. (Putter, _Historische Entwickelung der
hautigen Staatsverfassung des Teutschen Reichs,_ Gottingen, 1788, ii.
384, 390).] And so certain doors are locked; and Friedrich Wilhelm's
word, unalterable as gravitation, has gone forth. In this manner is
the mad Catholic bull taken by the TAIL: keep fast hold, and apply your
cudgel duly in that attitude, he will not gore you any more!

The Magdeburg-Hamersleben people shrieked piteously; not to Friedrich
Wilhelm, whom they knew to be deaf on that side of his head, but to the
Kaiser, to the Pope, to the Serenity of Heidelberg. Serene Highness
of Heidelberg was much huffed; Kaiser dreadfully so, and wrote heavy
menacing rebukes. To which Friedrich Wilhelm listened with a minimum of
reply; keeping firm hold of the tail, in such bellowing of the animal.
The end was, Serene Highness had to comply; within three months, Kaiser,
Serene Highness and the other parties interested, found that there would
be nothing for it but to compose themselves, and do what was just.
April 16th, 1720, the Protestants are reinstated in their HEILIGE-GEIST
KIRCHE; Heidelberg Catechism goes its free course again, May 16th; and
one Baron Reck [Michaelis, ii. 95; Putter, ii. 384, 390; Buchholz, pp.
61-63.] is appointed Commissioner, from the CORPUS EVANGELICORUM, to
Heidelberg; who continues rigorously inspecting Church matters there for
a considerable time, much to the grief of Highness and Jesuits, till he
can report that all is as it should be on that head. Karl Philip felt so
disgusted with these results, he removed his Court, that same year, to
Mannheim; quitted Heidelberg; to the discouragement and visible decay
of the place; and, in spite of humble petitions and remonstrances, never
would return; neither he nor those that followed him would shif