public generally, are much struck with the Event at Custrin;
and take to writing of it as news;--and "Mr. Ginkel," Dutch
Ambassador here, an ingenious, honest and observant man, well
enough known to us, has been out to sup with the Prince, next day;
and thus reports of him to Dickens: "Mr. Ginkel, who supped with
the Prince on Thursday last," day after the Interview, "tells me
that his Royal Highness is extremely improved since he had seen
him; being grown much taller; and that his conversation is
surprising for his age, abounding in good sense and the prettiest
turns of expression." [Despatch, 18th August, 1731.]

Here are other shreds, snatched from the Witch-Caldron, and
pinned down, each at its place; which give us one or two
subsequent glimpses:--

POTSDAM, 21st AUGUST, 1731 (King to Wolden the Hofmarschall). ...
"Crown-Prince shall travel over, and personally inspect, the
following Domains: Quartschen, Himmelstadt, Carzig, Massin, Lebus,
Gollow and Wollup," dingy moor-farms dear to Antiquarians; "travel
over these and not any other. Permission always to be asked, of
his Royal Majesty, in writing, and mention made to which of them
the Crown-Prince means to go. Some one to be always in attendance,
who can give him fit instruction about the husbandry; and as the
Crown-Prince has yet only learned the theory, he must now be
diligent to learn the same practically. For which end it must be
minutely explained to him, How the husbandry is managed,--how
ploughed, manured, sown, in every particular; and what the
differences of good and bad husbandry are, so that he may be able
of himself to know and judge the same. Of Cattle-husbandry too,
and the affairs of Brewing (VIEHZUCHT UND BRAUWESEN), the due