exikon,_
iii. 432, 433, and iv. 268, 269. Vacant on the gossiping points;
cautiously official, both these.] We go now to the Second Letter and the
Third,--from Landsberg about a fortnight later:--

No. 2. TO HIS EXCELLENCY (shovelful of titles) VON GRUMKOW, IN BERLIN.

"LANDSBERG, 19th October, 1731.

"The day before yesterday [that is, Wednesday, 17th October] I received
an Order, To have only fifty Horse at that post, and"--Order which shows
us that there has fallen out some recruiting squabble on the Polish
Frontier hereabouts; that the Polack gentlemen have seized certain
Corporals of ours, but are about restoring them; Order and affair
which we shall omit. "Corporals will be got back: but as these Polack
gentlemen: will see, by the course taken, that we have no great stomach
for BITING, I fancy they will grow more insolent; then, 'ware who tries
to recruit there for the future!

"On the same day I was apprised, from Custrin, That the Prince-Royal
had resolved on an excursion to Carzig, and thence to the Bailliage of
Himmelstadt [digging and stubbing now on foot at Himmelstadt too], which
is but a couple of miles ["DEMI-MILLE" German.] from this; that there
would be a little hunt between the two Bailliages; and that if I chose
to come, I might, and the Prince would dine with me."--Which I did; and
so, here again, Thursday, 18th October, 1731, in those remote Warta-Oder
Countries, is a glimpse of his Royal Highness at first hand. Schulenburg
continues; not even taking a new paragraph, which indeed he never
does:--

"They had shut up a couple of SPIESSER (young roes), and some stags, in
the old wreck of a SAUGARTEN [Boar-park, between Carzig and Himmelstadt;
FAST RUINIRTEN SAUGARTEN, he calls it, daintily throwing in a touch of
German here]: the Prince shot one or two of them, and his companions the
like; but it does not seem as if this amusement were much to his taste.
He went on to Himmelstadt; and at noon he arrived here," in my poor
Domicile at Landsberg.

"At one o'clock we went to table, and sat till four. He spoke only of
very indifferent things; except saying to me: 'Do you know, the King
has promised 400,000 crowns (60,000 pounds) towards disengaging those
Bailliages of the Margraf of Baireuth's,'"--old Margraf, Bailliages
pawned to raise ready cash; readers remember what interminable
Law-pleading there was, till Friedrich Wilhelm put it into a liquid
state, "Pay me back the moneys, then!" [Supra, pp.