Wilhelm bitterly ill; and contemplates
no better usage of him, except in show. Usage? thinks the Kaiser: A big
Prussian piece of Cannon, whom we wish to enchant over to us! Did LAZY
PEG complain of her "usage"?--So that the Excellenz and Grumkow have a
heavy problem of it; were they not so diligent, and the Cannon itself
well disposed. "Those BLITZ FRANZOSEN (blasted French)!" growls
Friedrich Wilhelm sometimes, in the Tobacco-Parliament: [Forster, ii.
12, &c.] for he hates the French, and would fain love his Kaiser; being
German to the bone, and of right loyal heart, though counted only a
piece of cannon by some. For one thing, his Prussian Majesty declines
signing that Treaty of Hanover a second time: now when the Dutch accede
to it, after almost a year's trouble with them, the Prussian Ambassador,
singular to observe, "has no orders to sign;" leaves the English with
their Hollanders and Blitz Franzosen to sign by themselves, this time.
[9th August, 1726. (Boyer, _The Political State of Great Rrilain,_ a
monthly periodical, vol. xxxii. p. 77, which is the number for July,
1726.)] "We will wait, we will wait!" thinks his Prussian Majesty:--"Who
knows?"

"But then Julich and Berg!" urges he always; "Britannic Majesty and
the Blitz Franzosen were to secure me the reversion there. That was
the essential point!"--For this too Excellenz has a remedy; works out
gradually a remedy from headquarters, the amiable dexterous man: "Kaiser
will do the like, your Majesty; Kaiser himself will secure it you!"--In
brief, some three months after Seckendorf's instalment as Kaiser's
Minister, not yet five months since his appearance in the Schlossplatz
that May evening,--it is now Hunting-season, and we are at Wusterhausen;
Majesty, his two Black-Artists and the proper satellites on both sides
all there,--a new and opposite Treaty, in extreme privacy, on the 12th
of October, 1726, is signed at that sequestered Hunting-Schloss: "Treaty
of Wusterhausen" so called; which was once very famous and mysterious,
and caused many wigs to wag. Wigs to wag, in those days especially, when
knowledge of it was first had; the rather as only half knowledge could
be had of it;--or can, mourns Dryasdust, who has still difficulties
about some "secret articles" in the Document. [Buchholz, i. 94 n.]
Courage, my friend; they are now of no importance to any creature.

The essential purport of this Treaty, [Given IN EXTENSO (without the
secret articles) in Fors