titular Austrian Feldmarschall; Prince Alexander of Wurtemberg, an
actual one (poor old Eberhard Ludwig's Cousin, and likely to be
Heir there soon); high quasi-Austrian Serenities;--not to mention
Schulenburg and others officially related to Austria, or
acquainted with it. Nothing could be more distinguished than the
welcome of Duke Franz; and the things he saw and did, during his
three weeks' visit, are wonderful to Fassmann and the extinct
Gazetteers. Saw the Potsdam Giants do their "EXERCITIA,"
transcendent in perfection; had a boar-hunt; "did divine service
in the Potsdam Catholic Church; "--went by himself to Spandau, on
the Tuesday (26th), where all the guns broke forth, and dinner was
ready: King, Queen and Party having made off for Berlin, in the
interim, to be ready for his advent there "in the evening about,
five." Majesties wait at Berlin, with their Party,--among whom,
say the old Newspapers, "is his Royal Highness the Crown-Prince:"
Crown-Prince just come in from Custrin; just blessed with the
first sight of his Charmer, whom he finds perceptibly less
detestable than he expected.

Serene Highness of Lorraine arrived punctually at five, with
outburst of all the artilleries and hospitalities; balls, soirees,
EXERCITIA of the Kleist Regiment, of the Gerns-d'Armes;
dinners with Grumkow, dinners with Seckendorf, evening party with
the Margravine Philip (Margravine in high colors);--one scenic
miracle succeeding another, for above a fortnight to come.

The very first spectacle his Highness saw, a private one, and of
no intense interest to him, we shall mention here for our own
behoof. "An hour after his arrival the Duke was carried away to
his Excellency Herr Creutz the Finance-Minister's; to attend a