of the Tobacco-Parliament) IN BERLIN.

"WIEN [properly Berlin-Landsberg Highway,
other side of Custrin], 4th October, 1731.

"I regret much to have missed the pleasure of seeing your
Excellency again before I left Berlin. I set off between seven and
eight in the morning yesterday, and got to Custrin [seventy miles
or so] before seven at night. But the Prince had gone, that day,
to the Bailliage of Himmelstadt" (up the Warta Country, eastward
some five-and-thirty miles, much preparatory digging and stubbing
there); and he "slept at Massin [circuitous road back], where he
shot a few stags this morning. As I was told he might probably
dine at Kammin [still nearer Custrin, twelve miles from it;
half that distance east of Zorndorf,--mark that, O reader (see
Map)] with Madam Colonel Schoning, I drove thither. He had
arrrived there a moment before me." And who is Madam Schoning,
lady of Kammin here?--Patience, reader.

"I found him much grown; an air of health and gayety about him.
He caressed me greatly (ME GRACIEUSA FORT); afterwards questioned
me about my way of life in Vienna; and asked, if I had diverted
myself well there? I told him what business had been the occasion
of my journey, and that this rather than amusements had occupied
me; for the rest, that there had been great affluence of company,
and no lack of diversions. He spoke a long time to Madam
de Wreech "--

"Wrochem" Schulenburg calls her: young Wife of Lieutenant-General
von Wreech, a Marlborough Campaigner, made a Knight of Malta the