succeed, three years hence (1735) and becomes Duke of Brunswick in
General, according to hope; but only for a few months, having
himself died that same year. Poor Duke; rather a good man, by all
the accounts I could hear; though not of qualities that shone.
He is at present "Duke of Brunswick-Bevern,"--such his actual
nomenclature in those ever-fluctuating Sibyl's-leaves of German
History-Books, Wilhelmina's and the others;--expectant Duke of
Brunswick in General; much a friend of Friedrich Wilhelm. A kind
of Austrian soldier he was formerly, and will again be for brief
times; General-Feldmarschall so styled; but is not notable in War,
nor otherwise at all, except for the offspring he had by this
serene Spouse of his. Insipid offspring, the impatient reader
says; but permits me to enumerate one or two of them:--

1. Karl, eldest Son; who is sure to be Brunswick in General;
who is betrothed to Princess Charlotte of Prussia,--"a satirical
creature, she, fonder of my Prince than of him," Wilhelmina
thinks. The wedding nevertheless took effect. Brunswick in General
duly fell in, first to the Father; then, in a few months more, to
Karl with his Charlotte: and from them proceeded, in due time,
another Karl, of whom we shall hear in this History;--and of whom
all the world heard much in the French Revolution Wars; in 1792,
and still more tragically afterwards. Shot, to death or worse, at
the Battle of Jena, October, 1806; "battle lost before it was
begun,"--such the strategic history they give of it.
He peremptorily ordered the French Revolution to suppress itself;
and that was the answer the French Revolution made him. From this
Karl, what NEW Queens Caroline of England and portentous Dukes of
Brunswick, sent upon their travels through the anarchic world,
profitable only to Newspapers, we need not say!--