brated "Cipher Correspondence between
Grumkow and Reichenbach;" Grumkow covertly instructing his slave
Reichenbach what the London news shall be: Reichenbach answering him,
To hear is to obey! Correspondence much noised of in the modern
Prussian Books; and which was, no doubt, very wonderful to Tilson and
Company;--capable of being turned to uses, they thought. The reader
shall see specimens by and by; and he will find it unimportant enough,
and unspeakably stupid to him. It does show Grumkow as the extreme of
subtle fowlers, and how the dirty-fingered Seckendorf and he cooked
their birdlime: but to us that is not new, though at St. James's it was.
Perhaps uses may lie in it there? At all events, it is a pretty topic
in Queen Caroline's apartment on an evening; and the little Majesty and
she, with various laughters and reflections, can discern, a little, How
a poor King of Prussia is befooled by his servants, and in what way a
fierce Bear is led about by the nose, and dances to Grumkow's piping.
Poor soul, much of his late raging and growling, perhaps it was only
Grumkow's and not his! Does not hate us, he, perhaps; but only Grumkow
through him? This doleful enchantment, and that the Royal Wild Bear
dances only to tunes, ought to be held in mind, when we want anything
with him.--Those, amid the teheeings, are reflections that cannot
escape Queen Caroline and her little George, while the Prussian Express,
unknown to them, is on the road.

WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE
SAID NO.

The Prussian Express, Queen Sophie's Courier to England, made his best
speed: but he depends on the winds for even arriving there; and then he
depends on the chances for an answer there; an uncertain Courier as to
time: and it was not in the power of speed to keep pace with Friedrich
Wilhelm's impatience. "No answer yet?" growls Friedrich Wilhelm before
a fortnight is gone. "No answer?"--and January has not ended till a new
Deputation of the same Three Gentlemen, Finkenstein, Borck, Grumkow,
again waits on the Queen, for whom there is now this other message.
"Wednesday, 25th January, 1730," so Dubourgay dates it; so likewise
Wilhelmina, right for once: "a day I shall never forget," adds she.

Finkenstein and Borck, merciful persons, and always of the English
party, were again profoundly sorry. Borck has a blaze of temper in him
withal; we hear he apprised Grumkow, at one point of the dialogue, that