s the
unkindest cut of all:--but, of course, this healed in a day. Poor
Prince, he has his own allowance of insults, disgraces, blows; has just
been found out in some plan, or suspicion of a plan; found out to be
in debt at least, and been half miraculously pardoned;--and, except, in
flight, he still sees no deliverance ahead. Five days ago, 22d January,
1730, there came out a Cabinet-Order (summary Act of Parliament, so to
speak) against "lending money to Princes of the Blood, were it even
to the Prince-Royal." A crime and misdemeanor, that shall now be; and
Forfeiture of the Money is only part of the penalty, according to this
Cabinet-Order. Rumor is, the Crown-Prince had purchased a vehicle and
appurtenances at Leipzig, and was for running off. Certainty is, he was
discovered to have borrowed 1,000 Thalers from a certain moneyed man at
Berlin (money made from French scrip, in Mississippi Law's time);--which
debt Friedrich Wilhelm instantly paid. "Your whole debt, then, is that?
Tell me the whole!"--"My whole debt," answered the Prince; who durst
not own to about 9,000 other Thalers (1,500 pounds) he has borrowed
from other quarters, first and last. Friedrich Wilhelm saw perhaps some
premonition of flight, or of desperate measures, in this business; and
was unexpectedly mild: paid the 1,000 Thalers instantly; adding the
Cabinet-Order against future contingencies. [Ranke, i. 296; Forster,
&c.] The Prince was in this humor when he took Mamma's side, and
redoubled Wilhelmina's grief.

DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF
CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP.

Faithful Mamsell Bulow consoles the Princess: "Wait, I have news that
will put her Majesty in fine humor!"--And she really proved as good as
her word. Her news is, Dubourgay and Knyphausen, in this extremity
of pinch, have decided to send off not letters merely; but a speaking
Messenger to the English Court. One Dr. Villa; some kind of "English
Chaplain" here, [Wilhelmina, i. 203; Dubourgay's Despatch, 28th January,
1730.] whose chief trade is that he teaches Wilhelmina English; Rev.
Dr. Villa, who honors Wilhelmina as he ought, shall be the man. Is to
go instantly; will explain what the fatal pass we are reduced to is, and
whether Princess Wilhelmina is the fright some represent her there or
not.

Her Majesty is overjoyed to hear it: who would not be? Her Majesty
"writes Letters" of the due vehemency, thin