somebody take him by the horns,
or by the tail, and teach him manners. Teach him, not by vocal precepts,
it is likely, which would avail nothing on such a brute, but by
practical cudgelling and scourging to the due pitch. Pacific Friedrich
Wilhelm perceived that he himself would have to do that disagreeable
feat:--the growl of him, on coming to such resolution, must have been
consolatory to these poor Heidelbergers, when they applied!--His plan
is very simple, as the plans of genius are; but a plan leading direct to
the end desired, and probably the only one that would have done so, in
the circumstances. Cudgel in hand, he takes the Catholic bull,--shall we
say, by the horns?--more properly perhaps by the tail; and teaches him
manners.

FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;--PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG.

Friedrich Wilhelm's first step, of course, was to remonstrate
pacifically with his Serene Highness on the Heidelberg-Church affair:
from this he probably expected nothing; nor did he get anything. Getting
nothing from this, and the countenance of external Protestant Powers,
especially of George I. and the Dutch, being promised him in ulterior
measures, he directed his Administrative Officials in Magdeburg, in
Minden, in Hamersleben, where are Catholic Foundations of importance,
to assemble the Catholic Canons, Abbots, chief Priests and all whom
it might concern in these three Places, and to signify to them as
follows:--

"From us, your Protestant Sovereign, you yourselves and all men will
witness, you have hitherto had the best of usage, fair-play, according
to the Laws of the REICH, and even-more. With the Protestants at
Heidelberg, on the part of the Catholic Powers, it is different. It must
cease to be different; it must become the same. And to make it do so,
you are the implement I have. Sorry for it, but there is no other handy.
From this day your Churches also are closed, your Public Worship ceases,
and furthermore your Revenues cease; and all makes dead halt, and falls
torpid in respect of you. From this day; and so continues, till the day
(may it be soon!) when the Heidelberg Church of the Holy Ghost is opened
again, and right done in that question. Be it yours to speed such day:
it is you that can and will, you who know those high Catholic regions,
inaccessible to your Protestant Sovereign. Till then you are as dead
men; temporarily fallen dead for a purpose. And herewith God have you in
his keeping!" [Mauvil