heart, poor Bear; aud pardoned Wilhelmina and even Fritz,
at the Mother's request,--till symptoms mended again. [Wilhelmina, i.
207.] JARNI-BLEU, Herr Seckendorf, "Grumkow serves us honorably (DIENET
EHRLICH)"--does not he!--Ambiguous bed of sickness, a refuge in time of
trouble, did not quite terminate till May next, when her Majesty's time
came; a fine young Prince the result; [23d May, 1730, August Ferdinand;
her last child.] and this mode of refuge in trouble ceased to be
necessary.

WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL
CHOOSE, THEN.

Directly on the back of that peremptory act of disobedience by the
womankind on Wednesday last, Friedrich Wilhelm came to Berlin himself.
He stormfully reproached his Queen, regardless of the sick-bed;
intimated the infallible certainty, That Wilhelmina nevertheless would
wed without delay, and that either Weissenfels or Schwedt would be
the man. And this said, he straightway walked out to put the same in
execution.

Walked, namely, to the Mother Margravine of Schwedt, the lady in high
colors, Old Dessauer's Sister; and proposed to her that Wilhelmina
should marry her Son.--"The supreme wish of my life, your Majesty,"
replied she of the high colors: "But, against the Princess's own will,
how can I accept such happiness? Alas, your Majesty, I never can!"--and
flatly refused his Majesty on those terms: a thing Wilhelmina will ever
gratefully remember of her. [Wilhelmina, i. 197.]

So that the King is now reduced to Weissenfels; and returns still more
indignant to her Majesty's apartment. Weissenfels, however, it shall
be; and frightful rumors go that he is written to, that he is privately
coming, and that there will be no remedy. [Wilhelmina, i. 197.]
Wilhelmina, formerly almost too florid, is gone to a shadow; "her waist
hardly half an ell;" worn down by these agitations. The Prince and she,
if the King see either of them,--it is safer to run, or squat behind
screens.

HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL.

In this high wind of extremity, the King now on the spot and in
such temper, Borck privately advises, "That her Majesty bend a
little,--pretend to give up the English connection, and propose a third
party, to get rid of Weissenfels."--"What third party, then?"--"Well,
there is young Brandenburg-Culmbach, for example, Heir-Apparent of
Baireuth; Friedrich, a handsome enough young Prince, just coming home