Assessor business here; and found some: Order from Papa, to "make
Report, upon the Glass-works of the Neumark:" Autograph signatures
to common Reports, one or two; and some traditions of his having
had a hand in planning certain Farm-Buildings still standing in
those parts:--but as the Kammer Records of Custrin, and Custrin
itself, were utterly burnt by the Russians in 1758, such traces
had mostly vanished thirty years before Nicolai's time.
[Nicolai, Anekdoten, vi. 193.] Enough have
turned up since, in the form of Correspondence with the King and
otherwise: and it is certain the Crown-Prince did plan
Farm-Buildings;--"both Carzig and Himmelstadt (Carzig now called
FRIEDRICHSFELDE in consequence)," [See Map] dim mossy Steadings,
which pious Antiquarianism can pilgrim to if it likes, were built
or rebuilt by him:--and it is remarkable withal how thoroughly
instructed Friedrich Wilhelm shows himself in such matters;
and how paternally delighted to receive such proposals of
improvement introducible at the said Carzig and Himmelstadt, and
to find young Graceless so diligent, and his ideas even good.
Forster, ii. 390, 387, 391.] Perhaps a momentary glance into those
affairs may be permitted farther on.

The Prince's life, in this his eclipsed state, is one of
constraint, anxiety, continual liability; but after the first
months are well over, it begins to be more supportable than we
should think. He is fixed to the little Town; cannot be absent any
night, without leave from the Commandant; which, however, and the
various similar restrictions, are more formal than real.
An amiable Crown-Prince, no soul in Custrin but would run by night
or by day to serve him. He drives and rides about, in that green
peaty country, on Domain business, on visits, on permissible