ove never got entangled in before.

The whole of which extensive Cabinet operations, covering square miles
of paper at this moment,--having nevertheless, after ten years of
effort, ended in absolute zero,--were of no worth even to the managers
of them; and are of less than none to any mortal now or henceforth. So
that the method of treating them becomes a problem to History. To pitch
them utterly out of window, and out of memory, never to be mentioned in
human speech again: this is the manifest prompting of Nature;--and this,
were not our poor Crown-Prince and one or two others involved in them,
would be our ready and thrice-joyful course. Surely the so-called
"Politics of Europe" in that day are a thing this Editor would otherwise
with his whole soul, forget to all eternity! "Putrid fermentation,"
ending, after the endurance of much mal-odor, in mere zero to you and
to every one, even to the rotting bodies themselves:--is there any wise
Editor that would connect himself with that? These are the fields of
History which are to be, so soon as humanly possible, SUPPRESSED; which
only Mephistopheles, or the bad Genius of Mankind, can contemplate with
pleasure.

Let us strive to touch lightly the chief summits, here and there, of
that intricate, most empty, mournful Business,--which was really once
a Fact in practical Europe, not the mere nightmare of an Attorney's
Dream;--and indicate, so far as indispensable, how the young Friedrich,
Friedrich's Sister, Father, Mother, were tribulated, almost heart-broken
and done to death, by means of it.

IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT.

Kaiser Karl VI., head of the Holy Romish Empire at this time, was a
handsome man to look upon; whose life, full of expense, vicissitude,
futile labor and adventure, did not prove of much use to the world.
Describable as a laborious futility rather. He was second son of that
little Leopold, the solemn little Herr in red stockings, who had such
troubles, frights, and runnings to and fro with the sieging Turks,
liberative Sobieskis, acquisitive Louis Fourteenths; and who at length
ended in a sea of futile labor, which they call the Spanish Succession
War.

This Karl, second son, had been appointed "King of Spain" in that futile
business; and with much sublimity, though internally in an impoverished
condition, he proceeded towards Spain, landing in England to get cash
for the outfit;--arrived in Spain; and roved about there as Titular-K