ter, iv. 159-166.] legible to all eyes, is,
"That Friedrich Wilhelm silently drops the Hanover Treaty and Blitz
Franzosen; and explicitly steps over to the Kaiser's side; stipulates to
assist the Kaiser with so many thousand, if attacked in Germany by any
Blitz Franzose or intrusive Foreigner whatever. In return for which, the
Kaiser, besides assisting Prussia in the like case with a like quantity
of thousands, engages, in circuitous chancery language, To be helpful,
and humanly speaking effectual, in that grand matter of Julich and
Berg;--somewhat in the following strain: 'To our Imperial mind it does
appear the King of Prussia has manifest right to the succession in
Julich and Berg; right grounded on express ERBVERGLEICH of 1624, not to
speak of Deeds subsequent: the Imperial mind, as supreme judge of
such matters in the Reich, will not fail to decide this Cause soon and
justly, should it come to that. But we hope it may take a still better
course: for the Imperial mind will straightway set about persuading
Kur-Pfalz to comply peaceably; and even undertakes to have something
done, that way, before six months pass.'" [Art. v. in Forster, ubi
supra.]

Humanly speaking, surely the Imperial mind will be effectual in the
Julich and Berg matter. But it was very necessary to use circuitous
chancery language,--inasmuch as the Imperial mind, desirous also to
secure Kur-Pfalz's help in this sore crisis, had, about three months
ago, [Treaty with Kur-Pfalz, 16th August, 1726 (Forster, ii. 71).]
expressly engaged to Kur-Pfalz, That Julich and Berg should NOT go to
Friedrich Wilhelm in terms of the old Deed, but to Kur-Pfalz's Cousins
of Sulzbach, whom the old gentleman (in spite of Deeds) was obstinate
to prefer! There is no doubt about that fact, about that self-devouring
pair of facts. To such straits is a Kaiser driven when he gets deep into
spectre-hunting.

This is the once famous, now forgotten, "Treaty of Wusterhausen, 12th
October, 1726;" which proved so consolatory to the Kaiser in that dread
crisis of his Spectre-Hunt; and the effects of which are very visible
in this History, if nowhere else. It caught up the Prussian-English
Double-Marriage; launched it into the huge tide of Imperial Spectre
Politics, into the awful swaggings and swayings of the Terrestrial LIBRA
in general; and nearly broke the heart of several Royal persons; of a
memorable Crown-Prince, among others. Which last is now, pretty much,
its sole claim t