ina; by rushing
into every brabble that rose, and hiring the parties with money to fight
it out well? It was the established method in that matter; method not
of George's inventing, nor did it cease with George. As to Domestic
Politics, except it were to keep quiet, and eat what the gods had
provided, one does not find that he had any.--The sage Leibnitz would
very fain have followed him to England; but, for reasons indifferently
good, could never be allowed. If the truth must be told, the sage
Leibnitz had a wisdom which now looks dreadfully like that of a
wiseacre! In Mathematics even,--he did invent the Differential Calculus,
but it is certain also he never could believe in Newton's System of the
Universe, nor would read the PRINCIPIA at all. For the rest, he was
in quarrel about Newton with the Royal Society here; ill seen, it is
probable, by this sage and the other. To the Hanover Official Gentlemen
devouring their English dead-horse, it did not appear that his presence
could be useful in these parts. [Guhrauer, _Gottfried Freiherr von
Leibnitz, eine Biographie_ (Breslau, 1842); Ker of Kersland, _Memoirs
of Secret Transactions_ (London, 1727)].

Nor are the Hanover womankind his Majesty has about him, quasi-wives or
not, of a soul-entrancing character; far indeed from that. Two in chief
there are, a fat and a lean: the lean, called "Maypole" by the English
populace, is "Duchess of Kendal," with excellent pension, in the
English Peeragy; Schulenburg the former German name of her; decidedly
a quasi-wife (influential, against her will, in that sad Konigsmark
Tragedy, at Hanover long since), who is fallen thin and old.
"Maypole,"--or bare Hop-pole, with the leaves all stript; lean, long,
hard;--though she once had her summer verdures too; and still, as an
old quasi-wife, or were it only as an old article of furniture, has her
worth to the royal mind, Schulenburgs, kindred of hers, are high in the
military line; some of whom we may meet.

Then besides this lean one, there is a fat; of whom Walpole (Horace, who
had seen her in boyhood) gives description. Big staring black eyes, with
rim of circular eyebrow, like a coach-wheel round its nave, very
black the eyebrows also; vast red face; cheeks running into neck, neck
blending indistinguishably with stomach,--a mere cataract of fluid
tallow, skinned over and curiously dizened, according to Walpole's
portraiture. This charming creature, Kielmannsegge by German name, was
c