himself, a friend in the world available just now.
Tempestuous Papa storms one way, tempestuous Mamma Nature
another; and between the outsids and the inside there are
inconsistencies enough.

Concerning the fair Wreech of Tamsel, with her complexion of lily
and rose, there ensued by and by much whispering, and rumoring
underbreath; which has survived in the apocryphal Anecdote-Books,
not in too distinct a form. Here, from first hand, are three
words, which we may take to be the essence of the whole.
Grumkow reporting, in a sordid, occasionally smutty, spy manner,
to his Seckendorf, from Berlin, eight or ten months hence, has
this casual expression: "He [King Friedrich Wilhelm] told me in
confidence that Wreech, the Colonel's Wife, is--to P. R.
(Prince-Royal); and that Wreech vowed he would not own it for his.
And his Majesty in secret is rather pleased," adds the smutty spy.
[Grumkow to Seckendorf, Berlin, 20th August, 1732 (Forster, iii.
112).] Elsewhere I have read that the poor object, which actually
came as anticipated (male or female, I forget), did not live
long;--nor had Friedrich, by any opportunity, another child in
this world. Domestic Tamsel had to allay itself as it best could;
and the fair Wreech became much a stranger to Friedrich,--
surprisingly so to Friedrich the KING, as perhaps we may see.--

Predestination, GNADENWAHL, Herr General: what is orthodoxy on
Predestination, with these accompaniments! [For Wreech, see
Benekendorf, v. 94; for Schulenburg,
ib. 26;--and Militair-Lexikon, iii. 432,
433, and iv. 268, 269. Vacant on the gossiping points; cautiously
official, both these.] We go now to the Second Letter and the