wedding there, along with his Majesty. Wedding of Excellency
Creutz's only Daughter to the Herr HOFJAGERMEISTER von Hacke."--
HOFJAGERMEISTER (Master of the Hunt), and more specifically
Captain Hacke, of the Potsdam Guard or Giant regiment, much and
deservedly a favorite with his Majesty. Majesty has known, a long
while, the merits military and other of this Hacke; a valiant
expert exact man, of good stature, good service among the Giants
and otherwise, though not himself gigantic; age now turned of
thirty;--and unluckily little but his pay to depend on. Majesty,
by way of increment to Hacke, small increment on the pecuniary
side, has lately made him "Master of the Hunt;" will, before long,
make him Adjutant-General, and his right-hand man in Army matters,
were he only rich;--has, in the mean while, made this excellent
match for him; which supplies that defect. Majesty was the making
of Creutz himself; who is grown very rich, and has but one
Daughter: "Let Hacke have her!" his Majesty advised;--and snatches
off the Duke of Lorraine to see it done. [Fassmann, p. 430.]

Did the reader ever hear of Finance-Minister Creutz, once a poor
Regiment's Auditor, when his Majesty, as yet Crown-Prince, found
talent in him? Can readers fish up from their memory, twenty years
back, anything of a terrific Spectre walking in the Berlin Palace,
for certain nights, during that "Stralsund Expedition" or famed
Swedish-War time, to the terror of mankind? Terrific Spectre,
thought to be in Swedish pay,--properly a spy Scullion, in a small
concern of Grumkow VERSUS Creutz? [Antea, vol. v. pp. 356-358;
Wilhelmina.] This is the same Creutz; of whom we have never spoken
more, nor shall again, now that his rich Daughter is well married
to Hacke, a favorite of his Majesty's and ours. It was the Duke's
first sight in Berlin; February 26th; prologue to the flood of