APA or Universal Father, armed only with charities, pieties,
prayers, ever shiningly attended by self-sacrifices on Gotzkowsky's
part; which averted woes innumerable (Lager-Haus only one of a long
list); and which 'surpassed all belief,' write the Berlin Magistracy,
as if in tears over such heroism. Truly a Prince of Merchants, this
Gotzkowsky, not for his vast enterprises, and the mere 1,500 workmen he
employs, but for the still greater heart that dwells in him. Had
begun as a travelling Pedler; used to call at Reinsberg, with female
haberdasheries exquisitely chosen ('GALLANTERIE wares' the Germans call
them), for the then Princess Royal; not unnoticed by Friedrich, who
recognized the broad sense, solidity and great thoughts of the man. Of
all which Friedrich has known far more since then, in various branches
of Prussian commerce improved by Gotzkowsky's managements. A truly
notable Gotzkowsky; became bankrupt at last, one is sorry to hear; and
died in affliction and neglect,--short of the humblest wages for so much
good work done in the world! [Preuss, ii. 257, &c. &c.; GESCHICHTE EINES
PATRIOTISCHEN KAUFMANNS (Berlin, 1769, by Gotzkowsky himself).]

"Gotzkowsky's House was like a general storeroom for everybody's
preciosities; his time, means, self were the refuge of all the needy.
In Zorndorf time, when this Czernichef [if readers can remember], who
is now so supreme,--Czernichef, Soltikof and others,--had nothing for
it but to lodge in the cellars of burnt Custrin, Gotzkowsky, with ready
money, with advice, with assuagement, had been their DEUS EX MACHINA:
and now Czernichef remembers it; and Gotzkowsky, as Papa, has to go with
continual prayers, negotiations, counsellings, expedients, and be the
refuge of all unjustly suffering men Berlin has immensities of trade in
war-furnitures: the capitals circulating are astonishing to Archenholtz;
million on the back of million; no such city in Germany for trade. The
desire of the Three-days Lacy Government is towards any Lager-Haus;
any mass of wealth, which can be construed as Royal or connected with
Royalty. Ephraim and Itzig, mint-masters of that copper-coinage; rolling
in foul wealth by the ruin of their neighbors; ought not these to bleed?
Well, yes,--if anybody; and copiously if you like! I should have said
so: but the generous Gotzkowsky said in his heart, 'No;' and again
pleaded and prevailed. Ephraim and Itzig, foul swollen creatures, were
not broached at all; and