oor man:--"Your Prince of Wales to wed
Wilhelmina at once; the other Match to stand over?" To which the
English Government answers always briefly, "No; both the Marriages or
none!"--Will the reader consent to a few compressed glances into the
extinct Dubourgay Correspondence; much compressed, and here and there a
rushlight stuck in it, for his behoof. Dubourgay, at Berlin, writes;
my Lord Townshend, in St. James's reads, usually rather languid in
answering:--

BERLIN, 9th NOVEMBER, 1728. "Prussian Majesty much pleased with English
Answers" to the Yes-or-No question: "will send a Minister to our Court
about the time his Britannic Majesty may think of coming over to his
German Dominions. Would Finkenstein (Head Tutor), or would Knyphausen
(distinguished Official here), be the agreeable man?" "Either," answer
the English; "either is good."

BERLIN, SAME DATE. "Queen sent for me just now; is highly content with
the state of things. 'I have now,' said her Majesty, 'the pleasure
to tell you that I am free, God be blessed, of all the anguish I have
labored under for some time past, which was so great that I have several
times been on the point of sending for you to procure my Brother's
protection for my Son, who, I thought, ran the greatest danger from the
artifices of Seckendorf and'"--Poor Queen!

NOV, 16th. "Queen told me: When the Court was at Wusterhausen," two
months ago, hunting partridges and wild swine, [Fassmann, p. 386.]
"Seckendorf and Grumkow intrigued for a match between Wilhelmina and the
Prince of Weissenfels," elderly Royal Highness in the Abstract, whom we
saw already, "thereby to prevent a closer union between the Prussian and
English Courts,--and Grumkow having withal the private view of ousting
his antagonist the Prince of Anhalt [Old Dessauer, whom he had to meet
in duel, but did not fight], as Weissenfels, once Son-in-law, would
certainly be made Commander-in-Chief," [Dubourgay, in State-Paper Office
(Prussian Despatches, vol. XXXV.)] to the extrusion of Anhalt from that
office. Which notable piece of policy her Majesty, by a little plain
speech, took her opportunity of putting an end to, as we saw. For the
rest, "the Dutch Minister and also the French Secretaries here," greatly
interested about the peace of Europe, and the Congress of Soissons in
these weeks, "have had a communication from this Court, of the favorable
disposition ours is in with respect to the Double Match,"--beneficent
for the Terre