Prince is little spoken of in it:--

No. 3. TO THE EXCELLENCY GRUMKOW (as above), IN BERLIN.

"LANDSBERG, 22d October (Monday), 1731.

"MONSIEUR,--I trust your Excellency made your journey to Crossen with
all the satisfaction imaginable. Had I been warned sooner, I would
have come; not only to see the King, but for your Excellency's sake
and Truchsess's: but I received your Excellency's Letter only yesterday
morning; so I could not have arrived before yesternight, and that late;
for it is fifty miles off, and one has to send relays beforehand; there
being no post-horses on that road.

"We are,--not to make comparisons,--like Harlequin! No sooner out of
one scrape, than we get into another; and all for the sake of those Big
Blockheads (L'AMOUR DE CES GRANDS COLOSSES). What the Kurfurst of Koln
has done, in his character of Bishop of Osnabruck,"--a deed not known
to this Editor, but clearly in the way of snubbing our recruiting
system,--"is too droll: but if we avenge ourselves, there will be high
play, and plenty of it, all round our borders! If such things would make
any impression on the spirit, of our Master: but they do not;
they"--in short, this recruiting system is delirious, thinks the stiff
Schulenburg; and scruples not to say so, though not in his place
in Parliament, or even Tobacco-Parliament. For there is a Majesty's
Opposition in all lands and times. "We ruin the Country," says the
Honorable Member, "sending annually millions of money out of it, for a
set of vagabond fellows (GENS A SAC ET A CORDE), who will never do us
the least service. One sees clearly it is the hand of God," darkening
some people's understanding; "otherwise it might be possible their eyes
would open, one time or another!"--A stiff pipe-clayed gentleman of
great wisdom, with plenty of sulphur burning in the heart of him. The
rest of his Letter is all in the Opposition strain (almost as if from
his place in Parliament, only far briefer than is usual "within these
walls"); and winds up with a glance at Victor Amadeus's strange feat, or
rather at the Son's feat done upon Victor, over in Sardinia; preceded by
this interjectionary sentence on a Prince nearer home:--

"As to the Prince-Royal, depend on it he will do whatever is required of
him [marry anybody you like &c.], if you give him more elbow-room,
for that is whither he aims.--Not a bad stroke that, of the King of
Sardinia"--Grand news of the day, at that time; now somewhat forgot