this Unique of Dukes
was no ancestor of Old Queen Charlotte's, but only a remote Welsh-Uncle,
far enough apart;--cannot be too far.

ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES.

Knyphausen did not settle Mecklenburg, as we perceive! Neither did
Kannegiesser and the unliquidated Heritages prosper, at Hanover, quite
to perfection. One Heritage, that of Uncle Osnabruck, little George
flatly refused to share: FEUDUM the whole of that, not ALLODIUM any part
of it, so that a Sister cannot claim. Which, I think, was confirmed by
the Arbitrators at Brunswick; thereby ending that. Then as to the Ahlden
ALLODIA or FEUDA,--Kannegiesser, blamably or not, never could make
much of the business. A precise strict man, as we saw at the Hanover
Council-room lately; whom the Hanover people did not like. So he made
little of it. Nay at the end of next year (December, 1730), sending in
his accounts to Berlin, he demands, in addition to the three thalers (or
nine shillings) daily allowed him, almost a second nine shillings for
sundries, chiefly for "hair-powder and shoe-blacking"! And is
instantly recalled; and vanishes from History at this point. [Busching,
_Beitrage,_ i. 307, &c.? Nussler.]

Upon which Friedrich Wilhelm selects another; "sends deal boxes along
with him," to bring home what cash there is. This one's name is Nussler;
an expectant Prussian Official, an adroit man, whom we shall meet again
doing work. He has the nine shillings a day, without hair-powder
or blacking, while employed here; at Berlin no constant salary
whatever,--had to "borrow 75 pounds for outfit on this business;"--does
a great deal of work without wages, in hope of effective promotion by
and by. Which did follow, after tedious years; Friedrich Wilhelm finding
him, on such proof (other proof will not do), FIT for promoting to
steady employment.

Nussler was very active at Hanover, and had his deal boxes; but hardly
got them filled according to hope. However, in some eighteen months he
had actually worked out, in difficult instalments, about 13,000 pounds,
and dug the matter to the bottom. He came home with his last instalment,
not disapproved of, to Berlin (May, 1732); six years after the poor
Duchess's death, so the Ahlden ALLODIA too had their end.

Chapter VII. -- A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP
IN TROUBLE.

While the Hanover Imminency was but beginning, and horrid crisis of War
or Duel--