adventure, much the grandest of his life. In Muller Junior's
Letter of Reminiscences to Nicolai we find some details, got from
his Father, which are worth gleaning:--

"When my Father first attempted, by royal order, to bring the
Crown-Prince to acknowledgment and repentance of the fault
committed, Crown-Prince gave this excuse or explanation: 'As his
Father could not endure the sight of him, he had meant to get out
of the way of his displeasure, and go to a Court with which his
Father was in friendship and relationship,'"--clearly indicating
England, think the Mullers Junior and Senior.

"For proof that the intention was towards England this other
circumstance serves, that the one confidant--Herr van Keith, if I
mistake not [no, you don't mistake], had already bespoken a ship
for passage out."--Here is something still more unexpected:--

"My Father used to say, he found an excellent knowledge and
conviction of the truths of religion in the Crown-Prince. By the
Prince's arrangement, my Father, who at first lodged with the
Commandant, had to take up his quarters in the room right above
the Prince; who daily, often as early as six in the morning,
rapped on the ceiling for him to come down; and then they would
dispute and discuss, sometimes half-days long, about the different
tenets of the Christian Sects;--and my Father said, the Prince was
perfectly at home in the Polemic Doctrines of the Reformed
(Calvinistic) Church, even to the minutest points. As my Father
brought him proofs from Scripture, the Prince asked him one time,
How he could keep chapter and verse so exactly in his memory?
Father drew from his pocket a little Hand-Concordance, and showed