this
strange Business; but should shudder to inflict them on any innocent
reader. Clear, grave Despatches, very brief and just, especially on the
Prussian side: and on a matter too, which truly is not lighter than any
other Despatch matter of that intrinsically vacant Epoch:--O reader,
would I could bury all vacant talk and writing whatsoever, as I do these
poor Despatches about the "eight cart-loads of hay"! Friedrich Wilhelm
is fair-play itself; will do all things, that Earth or Heaven can
require of him. Only, he is much in a hurry withal; and of this the
Hanover Officials take advantage, perhaps unconsciously, to keep him in
provocation. He lies awake at night, his heart is sore, and he has
fled to drink. Towards the middle of August,--here again is a
phenomenon,--"he springs out of bed in the middle of night," has again
an EUREKA as to this of Clamei: "Eureka, I see now what will bring a
settlement!" and sends off post-haste to Kannegiesser at Hanover. To
Kannegiesser,--Herr Reichenbach, the special Envoy in this matter, being
absent at the moment, gone to the Gohrde, I believe, where Britannic
Majesty itself is: but Kannegiesser is there, upon the Ahlden Heritages;
acquainted with the ground, a rather precise official man, who will
serve for the hurry we are in. Post-haste; dove with olive-branch cannot
go too quick;--Kannegiesser applying for an interview, not with the
Britannic Majesty, who is at Gohrde, hunting, but with the Hanover
Council, is--refused admittance. Here are Herr Kannegiesser's official
Reports; which will themselves tell the rest of the story, thank
Heaven:--

TO HIS PRUSSIAN MAJESTY (From Herr Kannegiesser).

No. 1. "DONE AT HANOVER, 15th AUGUST, 1729.

"On the 15th day of August, at ten o'clock in the morning, I received
Two Orders of Council [these are THE EUREKA, never ask farther what they
are]; despatched on the 13th instant at seven in the evening; whereupon
I immediately went to the Council-chamber here; and informed the Herr
von Hartoff, Private Secretary, who met me in a room adjoining, 'That,
having something to propose to his Ministry [now sitting deliberative in
the interior here; something to propose to his Ministry] on the part of
the Prussian Ministers, it was necessary I should speak to them.' Herr
von Hartoff, after having reported my demand, let me know, 'He had
received orders from the Ministry to defer what I had to say to another
time.'

"I replied, 'That, since I co