privately settled he is to marry the transcendent Archduchess,
peerless Maria Theresa herself; and is to reap, he, the whole
harvest of that Pragmatic Sanction sown with such travail of the
Universe at large. May be King of the Romans (which means
successor to the Kaisership) any day; and actual Kaiser one day.

We may as well say here, he did at length achieve these dignities,
though not quite in the time or on the terms proposed. King of the
Romans old Kaiser Karl never could quite resolve to make him,--
having always hopes of male progeny yet; which never came. For his
peerless Bride he waited six years still (owing to accidents),
"attachment mutual all the while;" did then wed, 1738, and was the
happiest of men and expectant Kaisers:--but found, at length, the
Pragmatic Sanction to have been a strange sowing of
dragon's-teeth, and the first harvest reapable from it a world of
armed men!--For the present he is on a grand Tour, for instruction
and other objects; has been in England last; and is now getting
homewards again, to Vienna, across Germany; conciliating the
Courts as he goes. A pacific friendly eupeptic young man;
Crown-Prince Friedrich, they say, took much to him in Berlin;
did not quite swear eternal friendship; but kept up some
correspondence for a while, and "once sends him a present of
salmon."--But to proceed with the utterances to Grumkow.

Utterance SECOND is probably of prior date; but introducible here,
being an accidental Fragment, with the date lost:--

TO THE FELDMARSCHALL VON GRUMKOW (from the Crown-Prince; exact date lost).

"... As to what you tell me of the Princess of Mecklenburg," for