home, and does the duty he finds lying there!--

Great favor from the Protestant public: but, on the other hand, his
Majesty had given offence in high places. What help for it? The thing
was a point of conscience with him; natural to the surly Royal Overseer,
going his rounds in the world, stick in hand! However, the Kaiser was
altogether gloomy of brow at such disobedience. A Kaiser unfriendly to
Friedrich Wilhelm: witness that of the RITTER-DIENST (our unreasonable
Magdeburg Ritters, countenanced by him, on such terms, in such style
too), and other offensive instances that could be given. Perhaps the
Kaiser will not always continue gloomy of brow; perhaps the thoughts of
the Imperial breast may alter, on our behalf or his own, one day?--

Nor could King August the Physically Strong be glad to see his
"Director" function virtually superseded, in this triumphant way. A year
or two ago, Friedrich Wilhelm had, with the due cautions and politic
reserves, inquired of the CORPUS EVANGELICORUM, "If they thought the
present Directorship (that of August the Physically Strong) a good one?"
and "Whether he, Friedrich Wilhelm, ought not perhaps himself to be
Director?"--To which, though the answer was clear as noonday, this poor
Corpus had only mumbled some "QUIETA NON MOVERE," or other wise-foolish
saw; and helplessly shrugged its shoulders. [1717-1719, when August's
KURPRINZ, Heir-Apparent, likewise declared himself Papist, to the horror
and astonishment of poor Saxony, and wedded the late Kaiser Joseph's
Daughter:--not to Father August's horror; who was steering towards
"popularity in Poland," "hereditary Polish Crown," &c. with the young
man. (Buchholz, i. 53-56.)] But King August himself,--though a jovial
social kind of animal, quite otherwise occupied in the world; busy
producing his three hundred and fifty-four Bastards there, and not
careful of Church matters at all,--had expressed his indignant surprise.
And now, it would seem nevertheless, though the title remains where it
was, the function has fallen to another, who actually does it: a thing
to provoke comparisons in the public.

Clement, the Hungarian forger, vender of false state-secrets, is well
hanged; went to the gallows (18th April, 1720) with much circumstance,
just two days before that Heidelberg Church was got reopened. But the
suspicions sown by Clement cannot quite be abolished by the hanging of
him: Forger indisputably; but who knows whether he had not some