this fable as yet risen from her dust. Of Ludwig Rudolf's other
two Daughters, we have said that one, the eldest, was the
Kaiserinn; Empress Elizabeth Christina, age now precisely forty;
with two beautiful Daughters, sublime Maria Theresa the elder of
them, and no son that would live. Which last little circumstance
has caused the Pragmatic Sanction, and tormented universal Nature
for so many years back! Ludwig Rudolf has a youngest Daughter,
also married, and a Mother in Germany,--to this day conspicuously
so;--of whom next, or rather of her Husband and Family-circle, we
must say a word.

Her Husband is no other than the esteemed Friend of Friedrich
Wilhelm; Duke of Brunswick-Bevern, by title; who, as a junior
branch, lives on the Apanage of Bevern, as his Father did; but is
sure now to inherit the sovereignty and be Duke of
Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel at large, he or his Sons, were the present
incumbent, Ludwig Rudolf, once out. Present incumbent, we have
just intimated, is his Father-in-law; but it is not on that ground
that he looks to inherit. He is Nephew of old Anton Ulrich, Son of
a younger Brother (who was also "Bevern" in Anton's time); and is
the evident Heir-male; old Anton being already fallen into the
distaff, with nothing but three Grand-daughters. Anton's heir will
now be this Nephew; Nephew has wedded one of the Grand-daughters,
youngest of the Three, youngest Daughter of Ludwig Rudolf,
Sovereign Duke that now is; which Lady, by the family she brought
him, if no otherwise, is memorable or mentionable here, and may be
called, a Mother in Germany.
[ANTON ULRICH (1833-1714). Duke in Chief; that is, Duke of
Brunswick-WOLFENBUTTEL.
AUGUST WILHELM, elder Son and Heir (1662, 1714, 1731); had no