lly rather
poor, carrying his head high; and seems to himself, on some sides of his
life, a martyred much-enduring man.

IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.

Kaiser Karl, soon after the time of going to Spain had decided that a
Wife would be necessary. He applied to Caroline of Anspach, now English
Princess of Wales, but at that time an orphaned Brandenburg-Anspach
Princess, very Beautiful, graceful, gifted, and altogether unprovided
for; living at Berlin under the guardianship of Friedrich the first
King. Her young Mother had married again,--high enough match (to
Kur-Sachsen, elder Brother of August the Strong, August at that time
without prospects of the Electorate);--but it lasted short while:
Caroline's Mother and Saxon Stepfather were both now, long since, dead.
So she lived at Berlin brilliant though unportioned;--with the rough cub
Friedrich Wilhelm much following her about, and passionately loyal to
her, as the Beast was to Beauty; whom she did not mind except as a
cub loyal to her; being five years older than he. [Forster, i. 107.]
Indigent bright Caroline, a young lady of fine aquiline features and
spirit, was applied for to be Queen of Spain; wooer a handsome man,
who might even be Kaiser by and by. Indigent bright Caroline at once
answered, No. She was never very orthodox in Protestant theology; but
could not think of taking up Papistry for lucre's and ambition's sake:
be that always remembered on Caroline's behalf.

The Spanish Majesty next applied at Brunswick Wolfenbuttel; no lack of
Princesses there: Princesa Elizabeth, for instance; Protestant she too,
but perhaps not so squeamish? Old Anton Ulrich, whom some readers know
for the idle Books, long-winded Novels chiefly, which he wrote, was the
Grandfather of this favored Princess; a good-natured old gentleman, of
the idle ornamental species, in whose head most things, it is likely,
were reduced to vocables, scribble and sentimentality; and only a steady
internal gravitation towards praise and pudding was traceable as
very real in him. Anton Ulrich, affronted more or less by the immense
advancement of Gentleman Ernst and the Hanoverian or YOUNGER Brunswick
Line, was extremely glad of the Imperial offer; and persuaded his timid
Grand-daughter, ambitious too, but rather conscience-stricken, That the
change from Protestant to Catholic, the essentials being so perfectly
identical in both, was a mere trifle; that he himself, old as he was,
would