the Practical Soul, especially in anarchic Countries, far advanced
in the "Gold-nugget and Nothing to Buy with it" Career of
unexampled Prosperities.

On these same errands the King is soon going on an Inspection
Journey, where we mean to accompany. But first, one word, and one
will suffice, on the debased Coin. The Peace was no sooner signed,
than Friedrich proceeded on the Coin. The third week after his
arrival home, there came out a salutary Edict on it, April 21st;
King eager to do it without loss of time, yet with the deliberation
requisite. Not at one big leap, which might shake, to danger of
oversetting, much commercial arrangement; but at two leaps, with a
halfway station intervening. Halfway station, with a new coinage
ready, much purer of alloy (and marked HOW much, for the benefit of
parties with accounts to settle), is to commence on TRINITATIS
(Whitsunday) instant; from and after Whitsunday the improved new
coin to be sole legal tender, till farther notice. Farther notice
comes accordingly, within a year, March 29th, 1764: "Pure money of
the standard of 1750 [honest silver coinage: readers may remember
Linsenbarth, the CANDIDATUS THEOLOGIAE, and his sack of Batzen,
confiscated at the Paekhof] shall be ready on the 1st of June
instant;" [Rodenbeck, ii. 214, 234.]--from and after which day we
hear no more of that sad matter. Finished off in about fourteen
months. Here, meanwhile, is the Inspection Journey.


KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763).

JUNE 2d, 1763, Friedrich left Potsdam for Westphalia; got as far as
Magdeburg that day. Intends seeing into matters with his own eyes