o lay hold of the questionable wax-bleaching Count, at
Frankfurt-on-Mayn,--secretly sending "a lieutenant and twelve men" for
that object,--he produces his Protection Paper, and the lieutenant and
twelve men had to hasten home again. [Ibid.] Count von Bar had to be
tried at law,--never ask with what results;--and this itself was a long
story. Then as to the other properties of the poor Duchess, question
arises, Are they ALLODIA, or are they FEUDA,--that is to say, shall the
Son have them, or the Daughter? In short, there was no end to questions.
Friedrich Wilhelm has an Envoy at Hanover, one Kannegiesser, laboring
at Hanover, the second of such he has been obliged to send; who finds
plenty of employment in that matter. "My Brother the COMODIANT quietly
put his Father's Will in his pocket, I have heard; and paid no regard
to it (except what he was compelled to pay, by Chesterfield and others):
will he do the like with his poor Mother's Will?" Patience,
your Majesty: he is not a covetous man, but a self-willed and a
proud,--always conscious to himself that he is the soul of honor, this
poor Brother King!

Nay withal, before these testamentary bickerings are settled, here has
a new Joint-Heritage fallen: on which may rise discussions. Poor Uncle
Ernst of Osnabruck--to whom George I., chased by Death, went galloping
for shelter that night, and who could only weep over his poor Brother
dead--has not survived him many months. The youngest Brother of the lot
is now gone too. Electress Sophie's Seven are now all gone. She had six
sons: four became Austrian soldiers, three of whom perished in war
long since; the other three, the Bishop, the King, the eldest of the
Soldiers, have all died within two years (1726-1728): [Michaelis, i.
153. See Feder, _Kurfurstinn Sophie;_ Hoppe, _Geschichte der Stadt
Hannover;_ &c.] Sophie Charlotte, "Republican Queen" of Prussia,
Friedrich Wilhelm's Mother, whom we knew long since, was the one
Daughter. Her also Uncle Ernst saw die, in his youth, as we may
remember. They are all dead. And now the Heritages are to settle, at
least the recent part of them. Let Kannegiesser keep his eyes open.
Kannegiesser is an expert high-mannered man; but said to be subject to
sharpness of temper; and not in the best favor with the Hanover people.
That is Cause FIRST.

CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG.

Then, secondly, there is the business of Mecklenburg; deplorable
Business for Mecklenburg, and