last! ["Prince Ferdinand (her last child, Father of him whose fate
lay at Jenz seventy-six years afterwards), born 23d May, 1730."]


ST. PETER'S CHURCH IN BERLIN HAS AN ACCIDENT.

Monday 29th May, 1730, Friedrich Wilhelm and the Crown-Prince and
Party were at Potsdam, so far on their way towards Radewitz.
All is peaceable at Potsdam that night: but it was a night of wild
phenomena at Berlin; or rather of one wild phenomenon, the
"Burning of the SANCT-PETERS KIRCHE," which held the whole City
awake and in terror for its life. Dim Fassmann becomes unusually
luminous on this affair (probably an eye-witness to it, poor old
soul); and enables us to fish up one old Night of Berlin City and
its vanished populations into clear view again, if we like.

For two years back Berlin had been diligently building a
non-plus-ultra of Steeples to that fine Church of St. Peter's.
Highest Steeple of them all; one of the Steeples of the World, in
a manner;--and Berlin was now near ending it. Tower, or shaft, has
been complete some time, interior fittings going on; and is just
about to get its ultimate apex, a "Crown-Royal" set on it by way
of finis. For his Majesty, the great AEdile, was much concerned in
the thing; and had given materials, multifarious helps:
Three incomparable Bells, especially, were his gift; melodious old
Bells, of distinguished tone, "bigger than the Great Bell of
Erfurt," than Tom of Lincoln,--or, as brief popular rumor has it,
the biggest Bells in the World, at least of such a TONE.
These Bells are hung, silent but ready in their upper chamber of
the Tower, and the gigantic Crown or apex is to go on; then will