above lying, even to please Papa: but one can see, the thought of
Papa gives him new fire of expression. They are eloquent, ruggedly
strong Essays, those of Mirabeau Junior upon Free Trade:
--they contain, in condensed shape, everything we were privileged
to hear, seventy years later, from all organs, coach-horns, jews-
harps and scrannel-pipes, PRO and CONTRA, on the same sublime
subject: "God is great, and Plugson of Undershot is his Prophet.
Thus saith the Lord, Buy in the cheapest market, sell in the
dearest!" To which the afflicted human mind listens what it can;--
and after seventy years, mournfully asks itself and Mirabeau,
"M. le Comte, would there have been in Prussia, for example, any
Trade at all, any Nation at all, had it always been left 'Free'?
There would have been mere sand and quagmire, and a community of
wolves and bisons, M. le Comte. Have the goodness to terminate that
Litany, and take up another!"

We said, Friedrich began his problem on the first morrow morning;
and that is literally true, that or even MORE. Here is how
Friedrich takes his stand amid the wreck, speedy enough to begin:
this view of our old friend Nussler and him is one of the Pieces we
can give,--thanks to Herr Busching and his Beitrage italic> for the last time! Nussler is now something of a Country
Gentleman, so to speak; has a pleasant place out to east of Berlin;
is LANDRATH (County Chairman) there, "Landrath of Nether-Barnim
Circle;" where we heard of the Cossacks spoiling him: he, as who
not, has suffered dreadfully in these tumults. Here is Busching's
welcome Account.


LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763).