from the Grand Tour, we hear; will have a fine Territory when his Father
dies: age is suitable; old kinship with the House, all money-quarrels
settled eight or ten years ago: why not him?"--"Excellent!" said
her Majesty; and does suggest him to the King, in the next
Schwedt-Weissenfels onslaught. Friedrich Wilhelm grumbles an assent,
"Well, then:--but I will be passive, observe; not a GROSCHEN of Dowry,
for one thing!"--

And this is the first appearance of the young Margraf Friedrich,
Heir-Apparent of Baireuth; who comes in as a hypothetic figure, at this
late stage;--and will carry off the fair prize, as is well known. Still
only doing the Grand Tour; little dreaming of the high fortune about to
drop into his mouth. So many wooers, "four Kings" among them, suing in
vain; him, without suing, the Fates appoint to be the man.

Not a bad young fellow at all, though no King. Wilhelmina, we shall
find, takes charmingly to him, like a good female soul; regretless of
the Four Kings;--finds her own safe little island there the prettiest
in the world, after such perils of drowning in stormy seas.--Of his
Brandenburg genealogy, degree of cousinship to Queen Caroline of
England, and to the lately wedded young gentleman of Anspach Queen
Caroline's Nephew, we shall say nothing farther, having already spoken
of it, and even drawn an abstruse Diagram of it, [Antea, vol. v. p.
309c.] sufficient for the most genealogical reader. But in regard to
that of the peremptory "Not a GROSCHEN of Dowry" from Friedrich Wilhelm
(which was but a bark, after all, and proved the reverse of a bite, from
his Majesty), there may a word of explanation be permissible.

The Ancestor of this Baireuth Prince Friedrich,--as readers knew once,
but doubtless have forgotten again,--was a Younger Son; and for six
generations so it stood: not till the Father of this Friedrich was of
good age, and only within these few years, did the Elder branch die
out, and the Younger, in the person of said Father, succeed to Baireuth.
Friedrich's Grandfather, as all these progenitors had done, lived
poorly, like Cadets, on apanages and makeshifts.

So that the Young Prince's Father, George Friedrich, present incumbent,
as we may call him, of Baireuth, found himself--with a couple of
Brothers he has, whom also we may transiently see by and by--in very
straitened circumstances in their young years. THEIR Father, son of
younger sons as we saw, was himself poor, and he had Four