me, of Opera-singer kind);--hoping
thereby that the Orzelska will be left alone in time coming. A _"facon
assez singuliere"_ for a Sovereign Majesty and Beelzebub Parent-Lover,
thinks Wilhelmina.

Thus has our poor Fritz fallen into the wake of Beelzebub; and is not in
a good way. Under such and no better guidance, in this illicit premature
manner, he gets his introduction to the paradise of the world. The
Formera, beautiful as painted Chaos; yes, her;--and why not, after a
while, the Orzelska too, all the same? A wonderful Armida-Garden, sure
enough. And cannot one adore the painted divine beauties there (lovely
as certain apples of the Dead Sea), for some time?--The miseries all
this brought into his existence,--into his relations with a Father very
rigorous in principle, and with a Universe still more so,--for years to
come, were neither few nor small. And that is the main outcome of the
Dresden visitings for him and us.--

Great pledges pass between the two Kings; Prussian Crown-Prince
decorated with the Order of the Saxon Eagle, or what supreme distinction
they had: Rutowski taken over to Berlin to learn war and drill, where
he did not remain long: in fact a certain liking seems to have risen
between the two heteroclite individualities, which is perhaps worth
remembering as a point in natural history, if not otherwise. One other
small result of the visit is of pictorial nature. In the famed Dresden
Gallery there is still a Picture, high up, visible if you have glasses,
where the Saxon Court-Painter, on Friedrich Wilhelm's bidding it is
said, soon after these auspicious occurrences, represents the two
Majesties as large as life, in their respective costumes and features
(short Potsdam Grenadier-Colonel and tall Saxon Darius or Sardanapalus),
in the act of shaking hands; symbolically burying past grudges, and
swearing eternal friendship, so to speak. [Forster, i. 226.] To this
Editor the Picture did not seem good for much; but Friedrich Wilhelm's
Portrait in it, none of the best, may be of use to travelling friends of
his who have no other.

The visit ended on the 12th of February, as the Newspapers testify. Long
before daybreak, at three in the morning, Friedrich Wilhelm, "who had
smoked after dinner till nine the night before," and taken leave of
everybody, was on the road; but was astonished to find King August and
the Electoral Prince or Heir-Apparent (who had privately sat up for the
purpose) insist on conduc