playing the same game on a larger scale.
Herr Schimmelmann ("MOULDY-man") the Dane, for instance,--Dane or
Holsteiner,--is coining false money for a Duke of Holstein-Plon, who
has not a Seven-Years War on his hands. Diligently coining, this Mouldy
Individual; still more successfully, is trading in Friedrich's Meissen
China (bought in the cheapest market, sold in the dearest); has at
Hamburg his "Auction of Meissen Porcelain," steadily going on, as a
new commercial institution of that City;--and, in short, by assiduously
laboring in such harvest-fields, gathers a colossal fortune, 100,000
pounds, 300,000 pounds, or I will not remember what. Gets "ennobled,"
furthermore, by a Danish Government prompt to recognize human merit:
Elephant Order, Dannebrog Order; no Order good enough for this
Mouldy-man of merit; [Preuss, ii. 391, 282, &c.]--and is, so far as
I know, begetting "Nobles," that is to say, Vice-Kings and monitory
Exemplars, for the Danish People, to this day. Let us shut down the iron
lid on all that.

Mauduit's Pamphlet, if it raised in the abhorrent unthinking English
mind some vague notion, as probably it did, that Pitt was responsible
for these things, or was in a sort the cause or author of them, might
produce some effect against him. "What a splash is this you are
making, you Great Commoner; wetting everybody's feet,--as our Mauduit
proves;--while the Conflagration seems to be going out, if you let it
alone!" For the heads of men resemble--My friend, I will not tell you
what they, in multitudinous instances, resemble.

But thus has woollen Mauduit, from his private camp ("Clement's Lane,
Lombard Street," say the Dictionaries), shot, at a very high object,
what pigeon's-egg or small pebble he had; the first of many such
that took that aim; with weak though loud-sounding impact, but with
results--results on King Friedrich in particular, which were stronger
than the Cannonade of Torgau! As will be seen. For within year and
day,--Mauduit and Company making their noises from without, and the
Butes and Hardwickes working incessantly with such rare power of
leverage and screwage in the interior parts,--a certain Quasi-Olympian
House, made of glass, will lie in sherds, and the ablest and noblest man
in England see himself forbidden to do England any service farther:
"Not needed more, Sir! Go you,--and look at US for the remainder of your
life!"

KING FRIEDRICH IN THE APEL HOUSE AT LEIPZIG (8th December, 17