p. 321; Forster, ii. 272, and iii. 320-324.)] amid the
rumor and wonder of mankind:--of him, noisy as he was, and still filling
many pages of the old Books, a hint shall suffice, and we will say
nothing farther. But this of the Heidelberg Protestants, though also
rather an extinct business, has still some claims on us. This, in
justice to the "inarticulate man of genius," and for other reasons, we
must endeavor to resuscitate a little.

OF KUR-PFALZ KARL PHILIP: HOW HE GOT A WIFE LONG SINCE, AND DID FEATS IN
THE WORLD.

There reigns, in these years, at Heidelberg, as Elector Palatine, a
kind-tempered but abrupt and somewhat unreasonable old gentleman, now
verging towards sixty, Karl Philip by name; who has come athwart the
Berlin Court and its affairs more than once; and will again do so, in
a singularly disturbing way. From before Friedrich Wilhelm's birth,
all through Friedrich Wilhelm's life and farther, this Karl Philip is a
stone-of-stumbling there. His first feat in life was that of running off
with a Prussian Princess from Berlin; the rumor of which was still at
its height when Friedrich Wilhelm, a fortnight after, came into the
world,--the gossips still talking of it, we may fancy, when Friedrich
Wilhelm was first swaddled. An unheard-of thing; the manner of which was
this.

Readers have perhaps forgotten, that old King Friedrich I. once had a
Brother; elder Brother, who died, to the Father's great sorrow, and made
way for Friedrich as Crown-Prince. This Brother had been married a short
time; he left a Widow without children; a beautiful Lithuanian Princess,
born Radzivil, and of great possessions in her own country: she, in her
crapes and close-cap, remained an ornament to the new Berlin Court for
some time;--not too long. The mourning-year once out, a new marriage
came on foot for the brilliant widow; the Bridegroom, a James Sobieski,
eldest Prince of the famous John, King Sobieski; Prince with fair
outlooks towards Polish Sovereignty, and handy for those Lithuanian
Possessions of hers: altogether an eligible match.

This marriage was on foot, not quite completed; when Karl Philip, Cadet
of the Pfalz, came to Berlin;--a rather idle young man, once in the
clerical way; now gone into the military, with secular outlooks, his
elder Brother, Heir-Apparent of the Pfalz, "having no children:"--came
to Berlin, in the course of visiting, and roving about. The beautiful
Widow-Princess seemed very charming to