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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of History of Friedrich II. of Prussia,
+Appendix, by Thomas Carlyle
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+Title: History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Appendix
+       Frederick The Great--A Day with Friedrich.--(23d July, 1779.)
+
+Author: Thomas Carlyle
+
+Posting Date: June 13, 2008 [EBook #2122]
+Release Date: March, 2000
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. ***
+
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+Produced by D.R. Thompson
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+
+HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA
+
+FREDERICK THE GREAT
+
+By Thomas Carlyle
+
+
+
+
+APPENDIX.
+
+This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four
+or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH got to
+paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident, all
+or mostly written at the same time:--these also, though they are now
+become, in parts, SUPERFLUOUS to a reader that has been diligent, I have
+not thought of changing, where not compelled. Here and there, especially
+in the Introductory Part, some slight additions have crept in;--which
+the above kind of reader will possibly enough detect; and may even have,
+for friendly reasons, some vestige of interest in assigning to their new
+date and comparing with the old. (NOTE OF 1868.)
+
+
+
+
+A DAY WITH FRIEDRICH.--(23d July, 1779.)
+
+"OBERAMTMANN (Head-Manager) Fromme" was a sister's son of Poet,
+Gleim,--Gleim Canon of Halberstadt, who wrote Prussian "grenadier-songs"
+in, or in reference to, the Seven-Years War, songs still printed, but
+worth little; who begged once, after Friedrich's death, an OLD HAT of
+his, and took it with him to Halberstadt (where I hope it still is); who
+had a "Temple-of-Honor," or little Garden-house so named, with Portraits
+of his Friends hung in it; who put Jean Paul VERY SOON there, with a
+great explosion of praises; and who, in short, seems to have been a
+very good effervescent creature, at last rather wealthy too, and able
+to effervesce with some comfort;--Oberamtmann Fromme, I say, was
+this Gleim's Nephew; and stood as a kind of Royal Land-Bailiff under
+Frederick the Great, in a tract of country called the RHYN-LUCH (a
+dreadfully moory country of sands and quagmires, all green and fertile
+now, some twenty or thirty miles northwest of Berlin); busy there
+in 1779, and had been for some years past. He had originally been an
+Officer of the Artillery; but obtained his discharge in 1769, and got,
+before long, into this employment. A man of excellent disposition and
+temper; with a solid and heavy stroke of work in him, whatever he might
+be set to; and who in this OBERAMTMANNSHIP "became highly esteemed."
+He died in 1798; and has left sons (now perhaps grandsons or
+great-grandsons), who continue estimable in like situations under the
+Prussian Government.
+
+One of Fromme's useful gifts, the usefulest of all for us at present,
+was "his wonderful talent of exact memory." He could remember to a
+singular extent; and, we will hope, on this occasion, was unusually
+conscientious to do it. For it so happened, in July, 1779 (23d July),
+Friedrich, just home from his troublesome Bavarian War, [Had arrived
+at Berlin May 27th (Rodenbeck, iii. 201).] and again looking into
+everything with his own eyes, determined to have a personal view of
+those Moor Regions of Fromme's; to take a day's driving through that
+RHYN-LUCH which had cost him so much effort and outlay; and he ordered
+Fromme to attend him in the expedition. Which took effect accordingly;
+Fromme riding swiftly at the left wheel of Friedrich's carriage, and
+loudly answering questions of his, all day.--Directly on getting home,
+Fromme consulted his excellent memory, and wrote down everything; a
+considerable Paper,--of which you shall now have an exact Translation,
+if it be worth anything. Fromme gave the Paper to Uncle Gleim; who, in
+his enthusiasm, showed it extensively about, and so soon as there was
+liberty, had it "printed, at his own expense, for the benefit of poor
+soldiers' children." ["Gleim's edition, brought out in 1786, the year of
+Friedrich's death, is now quite gone,--the Book undiscoverable. But the
+Paper was reprinted in an ANEKDOTEN-SAMMLUNG (Collection of Anecdotes,
+Berlin, 1787, 8tes STUCK, where I discover it yesterday (17th July,
+1852) in a copy of mine, much to my surprise; having before met with it
+in one Hildebrandt's ANEKDOTEN-SAMMLUNG (Halberstadt, 1830, 4tes STUCK,
+a rather slovenly Book), where it is given out as one of the rarest
+of all rarities, and as having been specially 'furnished by a Dr. W.
+Korte,' being unattainable otherwise! The two copies differ slightly
+here and there,--not always to Dr. Korte's advantage, or rather hardly
+ever. I keep them both before me in translating" (MARGINALE OF 1852)].
+
+"The RHYN" or Rhin, is a little river, which, near its higher clearer
+sources, we were all once well acquainted with: considerable little
+moorland river, with several branches coming down from Ruppin Country,
+and certain lakes and plashes there, in a southwest direction, towards
+the Elbe valley, towards the Havel Stream; into which latter, through
+another plash or lake called GULPER SEE, and a few miles farther, into
+the Elbe itself, it conveys, after a course of say 50 English miles
+circuitously southwest, the black drainings of those dreary and
+intricate Peatbog-and-Sand countries. "LUCH," it appears, signifies
+LOCH (or Hole, Hollow); and "Rhyn-Luch" will mean, to Prussian ears, the
+Peatbog Quagmire drained by the RHYN.--New Ruppin, where this beautiful
+black Stream first becomes considerable, and of steadily black
+complexion, lies between 40 and 50 miles northwest of Berlin. Ten or
+twelve miles farther north is REINSBERG (properly RHYNSBERG), where
+Friedrich as Crown-Prince lived his happiest few years. The details of
+which were familiar to us long ago,--and no doubt dwell clear and soft,
+in their appropriate "pale moonlight," in Friedrich's memory on this
+occasion. Some time after his Accession, he gave the place to Prince
+Henri, who lived there till 1802. It is now fallen all dim; and there is
+nothing at New Ruppin but a remembrance.
+
+To the hither edge of this Rhyn-Luoh, from Berlin, I guess there may be
+five-and-twenty miles, in a northwest direction; from Potsdam, whence
+Friedrich starts to-day, about, the same distance north-by-west; "at
+Seelenhorst," where Fromme waits him, Friedrich has already had 30 miles
+of driving,--rate 10 miles an hour, as we chance to observe. Notable
+things, besides the Spade-husbandries he is intent on, solicit his
+remembrance in this region. Of Freisack and "Heavy-Peg" with her
+didactic batterings there, I suppose he, in those fixed times, knows
+nothing, probably has never heard: Freisack is on a branch of this same
+Rhyn, and he might see it, to left a mile or two, if he cared.
+
+But Fehrbellin ("Ferry of BellEEN"), distinguished by the shining
+victory which "the Great Elector," Friedrich's Great-Grandfather,
+gained there, over the Swedes, in 1675, stands on the Rhyn itself, about
+midway; and Friedrich will pass through it on this occasion. General
+Ziethen, too, lives near it at Wusterau (as will be seen): "Old
+Ziethen," a little stumpy man, with hanging brows and thick pouting
+lips; unbeautiful to look upon, but pious, wise, silent, and with
+a terrible blaze of fighting-talent in him; full of obedience, of
+endurance, and yet of unsubduable "silent rage" (which has brooked even
+the vocal rage of Friedrich, on occasion); a really curious old Hussar
+General. He is now a kind of mythical or demigod personage among the
+Prussians; and was then (1779), and ever after the Seven-Years
+War, regarded popularly as their Ajax (with a dash of the Ulysses
+superadded),--Seidlitz, another Horse General, being the Achilles of
+that service.
+
+The date of this drive through the moors being "23d July, 1779," we
+perceive it is just about two months since Friedrich got home from
+the Bavarian War (what they now call "POTATO WAR," so barren was it in
+fighting, so ripe in foraging); victorious in a sort;--and that in his
+private thought, among the big troubles of the world on both sides of
+the Atlantic, the infinitesimally small business of the MILLER ARNOLD'S
+LAWSUIT is beginning to rise now and then. [Supra 415, 429. Preuss, i.
+362; &c. &c.]
+
+Friedrich is now 67 years old; has reigned 39: the Seven-Years War is
+16 years behind us; ever since which time Friedrich has been an "old
+man,"--having returned home from it with his cheeks all wrinkled, his
+temples white, and other marks of decay, at the age of 51. The "wounds
+of that terrible business," as they say, "are now all healed," perhaps
+above 100,000 burnt houses and huts rebuilt, for one thing; and the
+"ALTE FRITZ," still brisk and wiry, has been and is an unweariedly busy
+man in that affair, among others. What bogs he has tapped and
+dried, what canals he has dug, and stubborn strata he has bored
+through,--assisted by his Prussian Brindley (one Brenkenhof, once a
+Stable-boy at Dessau);--and ever planting "Colonies" on the
+reclaimed land, and watching how they get on! As we shall see on this
+occasion,--to which let us hasten (as to a feast not of dainties, but of
+honest SAUERKRAUT and wholesome herbs), without farther parley.
+
+Oberamtmann Fromme (whom I mark "Ich") LOQUITUR: "Major-General Graf von
+Gortz," whom Fromme keeps strictly mute all day, is a distinguished man,
+of many military and other experiences; much about Friedrich in this
+time and onwards. [Supra, 399.] Introduces strangers, &c.; Bouille took
+him for "Head Chamberlain," four or five years after this. He is ten
+years the King's junior; a Hessian gentleman;--eldest Brother of the
+Envoy Gortz who in his cloak of darkness did such diplomacies in the
+Bavarian matter, January gone a year, and who is a rising man in that
+line ever since. But let Fromme begin:--[_Anekdoten und Karakterzuge aus
+dem Leben Friedrich des Zweyten_ (Berlin, bei Johann Friedrich Unger,
+1787), 8te Sammlung, ss. 15-79.]
+
+"On the 23d of July, 1779, it pleased his Majesty the King to undertake
+a journey to inspect those" mud "Colonies in the Rhyn-Luch about
+Neustadt-on-the-Dosse, which his Majesty, at his own cost, had settled;
+thereby reclaiming a tract of waste moor (EINEN ODEN BRUCH URBAR MACHEN)
+into arability, where now 308 families have their living.
+
+"His Majesty set off from Potsdam about 5 in the morning," in an open
+carriage, General von Gortz along with him, and horses from his own
+post-stations; "travelled over Ferlaudt, Tirotz, Wustermark, Nauen,
+Konigshorst, Seelenhorst, Dechau, Fehrbellin," [See Reimann's
+KREIS-KARTEN, Nos. 74,73.] and twelve other small peat villages, looking
+all their brightest in the morning sun,--"to the hills at Stollen, where
+his Majesty, because a view of all the Colonies could be had from those
+hills, was pleased to get out for a little," as will afterwards be
+seen.--"Therefrom the journey went by Hohen-Nauen to Rathenau:" a
+civilized place, "where his Majesty arrived about 3 in the afternoon;
+and there dined, and passed the night.--Next morning, about 6, his
+Majesty continued his drive into the Magdeburg region; inspected various
+reclaimed moors (BRUCHE), which in part are already made arable, and in
+part are being made so; came, in the afternoon, about 4, over Ziesar and
+Brandenburg, back to Potsdam,--and did not dine till about 4, when he
+arrived there, and had finished the Journey." His usual dinner-hour is
+12; the STATE hour, on gala days when company has been invited, is
+1 P.M.,--and he always likes his dinner; and has it of a hot peppery
+quality!
+
+"Till Seelenhorst, the Amtsrath Sach of Konigshorst had ridden before
+his Majesty; but here," at the border of my Fehrbellin district, where
+with one of his forest-men I was in waiting by appointment, "the turn
+came for me. About 8 o'clock A.M. his Majesty arrived in Seelenhorst;
+had the Herr General Graf von Gortz in the carriage with him," Gortz,
+we need n't say, sitting back foremost:--here I, Fromme, with my woodman
+was respectfully in readiness. "While the horses were changing, his
+Majesty spoke with some of the Ziethen Hussar-Officers, who were upon
+grazing service in the adjoining villages [all Friedrich's cavalry went
+out to GRASS during certain months of the year; and it was a LAND-TAX
+on every district to keep its quota of army-horses in this manner,--AUF
+GRASUNG]; and of me his Majesty as yet took no notice. As the DAMME,"
+Dams or Raised Roads through the Peat-bog, "are too narrow hereabouts, I
+could not, ride beside him," and so went before? or BEHIND, with woodman
+before? GOTT WEISS!" In Dechau his Majesty got sight of Rittmeister von
+Ziethen," old Ajax Ziethen's son, "to whom Dechau belongs; and took
+him into the carriage along with him, till the point where the Dechau
+boundary is. Here there was again change of horses. Captain von
+Rathenow, an old favorite of the King's, to whom the property of
+Karvesee in part belongs, happened to be here with his family; he now
+went forward to the carriage:--
+
+CAPTAIN VON RATHENOW. "'Humblest servant, your Majesty!'
+[UNTERTHANIGSTER KNECHT, different from the form of ending letters, but
+really of the same import].
+
+KING. "'Who are you?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'I am Captain von Rathenow from Karvesee.'
+
+KING (clapping his hands together). "'Mein Gott, dear Rathenow, are you
+still alive! ["LEBT ER NOCH, is HE still alive?"--way of speaking to
+one palpably your inferior, scarcely now in use even to servants; which
+Friedrich uses ALWAYS in speaking to the highest uncrowned persons:
+it gives a strange dash of comic emphasis often in his German talk:] I
+thought you were long since dead. How goes it with you 7 Are you whole
+and well?"
+
+CAPTAIN. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Mein Gott, how fat He has (you are) grown!'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Ja, your Majesty, I can still eat and drink; only the feet
+get lazy' [won't go so well, WOLLEN NICHT FORT].
+
+KING. "'Ja! that is so with me too. Are you married?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yea, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Is your wife among the ladies yonder?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yea, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Bring her to me, then!' [TO HER, TAKING OFF HIS HAT] 'I find in
+your Herr Husband a good old friend.'
+
+FRAU VON RATHENOW. "'Much grace and honor for my husband!'
+
+KING. "'What were YOU by birth?' ["WAS SIND SIE," the respectful word,
+"FUR EINE GEBORNE?"]
+
+FRAU. "'A Fraulein von Krocher.'
+
+KING. "'Haha! A daughter of General von Krocher's?'
+
+FRAU. "'JA, IHRO MAJESTAT.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, I knew him very well.'--[TO RATHENOW] 'Have you children
+too, Rathenow?'
+
+CAPTAIN. "'Yes, your Majesty. My sons are in the service,' soldiering;
+'and these are my daughters.'
+
+KING. "'Well, I am glad of that (NUN, DAS FREUT MICH). Fare HE well.
+Fare He well.'
+
+"The road now went upon Fehrbellin; and Forster," Forester, "Brand, as
+woodkeeper for the King in these parts, rode along with us. When we came
+upon the patch of Sand-knolls which lie near Fehrbellin, his Majesty
+cried:--
+
+"'Forester, why aren't these sand-knolls sown?'
+
+FORESTER. "'Your Majesty, they don't belong to the Royal Forest; they
+belong to the farm-ground. In part the people do sow them with all
+manner of crops. Here, on the right hand, they have sown fir-cones
+(KIENAPFEL)'.
+
+KING. "'Who sowed them?'
+
+FORESTER. "'The Oberamtmann [Fromme] here.'
+
+THE KING (TO ME). "'Na! Tell my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis that the
+sand-patches must be sown.'--[TO THE FORESTER] 'But do you know how
+fir-cones (KIENAPFEL) should be sown?'
+
+FORESTER. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Na! [a frequent interjection of Friedrich's and his Father's],
+how are they sown, then? From east to west, or from north to south?'
+["VAN MORGEN GEGEN ABEND, ODER VAN ABEND GEGEN MORGEN?" so in ORIG.
+(p. 22);--but, surely, except as above, it has no sense? From north to
+south, there is but one fir-seed sown against the wind; from east to
+west, there is a whole row.]
+
+FORESTER. "'From east to west.'
+
+KING. "'That is right. But why?'
+
+FORESTER. "'Because the most wind comes from the west.'
+
+KING. "'That's right.'
+
+"Now his Majesty arrived at Fehrbellin; spoke there with Lieutenant
+Probst of the Ziethen Hussar regiment, [Probst is the leftmost figure
+in that Chodowiecki Engraving of the famous Ziethen-and-Friedrich
+CHAIR-scene, five years after this. (Supra. 374 n.)] and with the
+Fehrbellin Postmeister, Captain von Mosch. So soon as the horses were
+to, we continued our travel; and as his Majesty was driving close by my
+Big Ditches," GRABEN, trenches, main-drains, "which have been made in
+the Fehrbellin LUCH at the King's expense, I rode up to the carriage,
+and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, these now are the two new Drains, which by your
+Majesty's favor we have got here; and which keep the Luch dry for us.'
+
+KING. "'So, so; that I am glad of!--Who is He (are you)?'
+
+FROMME. "'Your Majesty, I am the Beamte here of Fehrbellin.'
+
+KING. "'What 's your name?'
+
+ICH. "'Fromme.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha! you are a son of the Landrath Fromme's.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's pardon. My father was Amtsrath in the AMT Luhnin.'
+
+KING. "'Amtsrath? Amtsrath? That isn't true! Your father was Landrath. I
+knew him very well.--But tell me now (SAGT MIR EINMAL) has the draining
+of the Luch been of much use to you here?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Do you keep more cattle than your predecessor?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty. On this farm I keep 40 more; on all the farms
+together 70 more.'
+
+KING. "'That is right. The murrain (VIEHSEUCHE) is not here in this
+quarter?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Have you had it here?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'Do but diligently use rock-salt, you won't have the murrain
+again.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty, I do use it too; but kitchen salt has very
+nearly the same effect.'
+
+KING. "'No, don't fancy that! You must n't pound the rock-salt small,
+but give it to the cattle so that they can lick it.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, it shall be done.'
+
+KING. "'Are there still improvements needed here?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja, your Majesty. Here lies the Kemmensee [Kemmen-lake]: if
+that were drained out, your Majesty would gain some 1,800 acres [MORGEN,
+three-fifths English acre] of pasture-land, where colonists could be
+settled; and then the whole country would have navigation too, which
+would help the village of Fehrbellin and the town of Ruppin to an
+uncommon degree.'
+
+KING. "'I suppose so! Be a great help to you, won't it; and many will be
+ruined by the job, especially the proprietors of the ground NICHT WAHR?'
+[Ha?]
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon [EW. MAJESTAT HALTEN ZU
+GNADEN,--hold me to grace]: the ground belongs to the Royal Forest, and
+there grows nothing but birches on it.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, if birchwood is all it produces, then we may see! But you
+must not make your reckoning without your host either, that the cost may
+not outrun the use.'
+
+ICH. "'The cost will certainly not outrun the use. For, first, your
+Majesty may securely reckon that eighteen hundred acres will be won
+from the water; that will be six-and-thirty colonists, allowing each 50
+acres. And now if there were a small light toll put upon the raft-timber
+and the ships that will frequent the new canal, there would be ample
+interest for the outlay.'
+
+KING. "'Na, tell my Geheimer-Rath Michaelis of it. The man understands
+that kind of matters; and I will advise you to apply to the man in every
+particular of such things, and wherever you know that colonists can be
+settled. I don't want whole colonies at once; but wherever there are two
+or three families of them, I say apply to that man about it.'
+
+ICH. "'It shall be done, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Can't I see Wusterau,' where old Ajax Ziethen lives, 'from
+here?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; there to the right, that is it.' It BELONGS to
+General von Ziethen; and terrible BUILDING he has had here,--almost all
+his life!
+
+KING. "'Is the General at home?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'How do you know?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the Rittmeister von Lestock lies in my village on
+GRAZING service; and last night the Herr General sent a letter over to
+him by a groom. In that way I know it.'
+
+KING. "'Did General von Ziethen gain, among others, by the draining of
+the Luch?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja; the Farm-stead there to the right he built in consequence,
+and has made a dairy there, which he could not have done, had not the
+Luch been drained.'
+
+KING. "'That I am glad of!--What is the Beamte's name in Alt-Ruppin?'
+[Old Ruppin, I suppose, or part of its endless "RUPPIN or RHYN MERE,"
+catches the King's eye.]
+
+ICH. "'Honig.'
+
+KING. "'How long has he been there?'
+
+ICH. "'Since Trinity-term.'
+
+KING. "'Since Trinity-term! What was he before?'
+
+ICH. "'Kanonious' [a canon].
+
+KING. "'Kanonicus? Kanonicus? How the Devil comes a Kanonicus to be a
+Beamte?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he is a young man who has money, and wanted to have
+the honor of being a Beamte of your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Why did n't the old one stay?'
+
+ICH. "'Is dead.'
+
+KING. "'Well, the widow might have kept his AMT, then!'
+
+ICH. "'Is fallen into poverty.'
+
+KING. "'By woman husbandry!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's pardon! She cultivated well, but a heap of
+mischances brought her down: those may happen to the best husbandman.
+I myself, two years ago, lost so many cattle by the murrain, and got no
+remission: since that, I never can get on again either.'
+
+KING. "'My son, to-day I have some disorder in my left ear, and cannot
+hear rightly on that side of my head' (!).
+
+ICH. "'It is a pity that Geheimer-Rath Michaelis has got the very same
+disorder!'--I now retired a little back from the carriage; I fancied his
+Majesty might take this answer ill.
+
+KING. "'Na, Amtmann, forward! Stay by the carriage; but TAKE CARE OF
+YOURSELF, THAT YOU DON'T GET HURT. SPEAK LOUD, I UNDERSTAND VERY WELL.'
+These words marked in Italics [capitals] his Majesty repeated at least
+ten times in the course of the journey. 'Tell me now, what is that
+village over on the right yonder?'
+
+ICH. "'Langen.'
+
+KING. "'To whom does it belong?'
+
+ICH. "'A third part of it to your Majesty, under the AMT of Alt-Ruppin;
+a third to Herr von Hagen; and then the High Church (DOHM) of Berlin has
+also tenants in it.'
+
+KING. "'You are mistaken, the High Church of Magdeburg.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon, the High Church of Berlin.'
+
+KING. "'But it is not so; the High Church of Berlin has no tenants!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty's gracious pardon, the High Church of Berlin has
+three tenants in the village Karvesen in my own AMT.'
+
+KING. "'You mistake, it is the High Church of Magdeburg.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I must be a bad Beamte, if I did not know what
+tenants and what lordships there are in my own AMT.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, then you are in the right!--Tell me now: here on the right
+there must be an estate, I can't think of the name; name me the estates
+that lie here on the right.'
+
+ICH. "'Buschow, Rodenslieben, Sommerfeld, Beetz, Karbe.'
+
+KING. "'That's it, Karbe! To whom belongs that?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Knesebeck.'
+
+KING. "'Was he in the service?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, Lieutenant or Ensign in the Guards.'
+
+KING. "'In the Guards? [COUNTING ON HIS FINGERS.] You are right: he
+was Lieutenant in the Guards. I am very glad the Estate is still in the
+hands of the Knesebecks.--Na, tell me though, the road that mounts
+up here goes to Ruppin, and here to the left is the grand road for
+Hamburg?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Do you know how long it is since I was here last?'
+
+ICH. "'No.'
+
+KING. "'It is three-and-forty years. Cannot I see Ruppin somewhere
+here?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty: the steeple rising there over the firs, that
+is Ruppin.'
+
+KING (leaning out of the carriage with his prospect-glass). "'Ja, ja,
+that is it, I know it yet. Can I see Drammitz hereabouts?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty: Drammitz lies too far to the left, close on
+Kiritz.'
+
+KING. "'Sha'n't we see it, when we come closer?'
+
+ICH. "'Maybe, about Neustadt; but I am not sure.'
+
+KING. "'Pity, that. Can I see Pechlin?'
+
+ICH. "'Not just now, your Majesty; it lies too much in the hollow. Who
+knows whether your Majesty will see it at all!'
+
+KING. "'Na, keep an eye; and if you see it, tell me. Where is the Beamte
+of Alt-Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'In Protzen, where we change horses, he will be.'
+
+KING. "'Can't we yet see Pechlin?'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it now?'
+
+ICH. "'To a certain Schonermark.'
+
+KING. "'Is he of the Nobility?'
+
+ICH. "'No.'
+
+KING. "'Who had it before him?'
+
+ICH. "'The Courier (FELDJAGER) Ahrens; he got it by inheritance from his
+father. The property has always been in commoners' (BURGERLICHEN) hands.
+
+KING. "'That I am aware of. How call we the village here before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Walcho.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To you, your Majesty, under the Amt Alt-Ruppin.'
+
+KING. "'What is the village here before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Protzen.'
+
+KING. "'Whose is it?'
+
+ICH. "'Herr von Kleist's.'
+
+KING. "'What Kleist is that?'
+
+ICH. "'A son of General Kleist's.'
+
+KING. "'Of what General Kleist's.'
+
+ICH. "'His brother was FLUGELADJUTANT [WING-adjutant, whatever that may
+be] with your Majesty; and is now at Magdeburg, Lieutenant-Colonel in
+the Regiment Kalkstein.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha, that one! I know the Kleists very well. Has this Kleist
+been in the service too?'
+
+ICH. "'Yea, your Majesty; he was ensign in the regiment Prinz
+Ferdinand.'
+
+KING. "'Why did the man seek his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'That I do not know.'
+
+KING. "'You may tell me, I have no view in asking: why did the man take
+his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I really cannot say.'
+
+"We had now got on to Protzen. I perceived old General van Ziethen
+standing before the Manor-house in Protzen,"--rugged brave old soul;
+with his hanging brows, and strange dim-fiery pious old thoughts!--"I
+rode forward to the carriage and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the Herr General von Ziethen is [are, SIND] also
+here.'
+
+KING. "'Where? where? Oh, ride forward, and tell the people to draw up;
+they must halt, I'll get out.'
+
+"And now his Majesty got out; and was exceedingly delighted at the sight
+of Herr General von Ziethen; talked with him and Herr von Kleist of many
+things: Whether the draining of the Luch had done him good; Whether the
+murrain had been there among their cattle?--and recommended rock-salt
+against the murrain. Suddenly his Majesty stept aside, turned towards
+me, and called: 'Amtmann! [THEN CLOSE INTO MY EAR] Who is the fat man
+there with the white coat?'
+
+ICH (ALSO CLOSE INTO HIS MAJESTY'S EAR). "'Your Majesty, that is the
+Landrath Quast, of the Ruppin Circle.'
+
+KING. "'Very well.'
+
+"Now his Majesty went back to General von Ziethen and Herr von Kleist,
+and spoke of different things. Herr von Kleist presented some very fine
+fruit to his Majesty; all at once his Majesty turned round, and said:
+'Serviteur, Herr Landrath!'--As the Landrath ["fat man there with the
+white coat"] was stepping towards his Majesty, said his Majesty: 'Stay
+he there where he is; I know him. He is the Landrath von Quast!'["Very
+good indeed, old Vater Fritz; let him stand there in his white coat,
+a fat, sufficiently honored man!--Chodowiecki has an engraving of this
+incident;--I saw IT at the British Museum once, where they have only
+seven others on Friedrich altogether, all in one poor GOTHA ALMANAC;
+very small, very coarse, but very good: this Quast (Anglice 'Tassel')
+was one of them" (MARGINALE OF 1862).]
+
+"They had now yoked the horses. His Majesty took a very tender leave of
+old General von Ziethen, waved an adieu to those about, and drove on.
+Although his Majesty at Protzen would not take any fruit, yet when
+once we were out of the village, his Majesty took a luncheon from the
+carriage-pocket for himself and the Herr General Graf von Gortz, and,
+all along, during the drive, ate apricots (IMMER PFIRSCHE).
+
+At starting, his Majesty had fancied I was to stop here, and called out
+of the carriage: 'Amtmann, come along with us!'
+
+KING. "'Where is the Beamte of Alt-Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'Apparently he must be unwell; otherwise he would have been in
+Protzen at the change of horses there' ["at the VORSPANN:" Yes;--and
+Manor-house, EDELHOF, where old Ziethen waited, was lower down the
+street, and SOONER than the Post-house?]
+
+KING. "'Na, tell me now, don't you really know why that Kleist at
+Protzen took his discharge?' [VOILA!]
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty, I really do not.'
+
+KING. "'What village is this before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Manker.'
+
+KING. "'And whose?'
+
+ICH. "'Yours, your Majesty, in the AMT Alt-Ruppin.'
+
+KING (looking round on the harvest-fields). "'Here you, now: how are you
+content with the harvest?'
+
+ICH. "'Very well, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Very well? And to me they said, Very ill!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, the winter-crop was somewhat frost-nipt; but the
+summer-crop in return is so abundant it will richly make up for the
+winter-crop.' His Majesty now looked round upon the fields, shock
+standing upon shock.
+
+KING. "'It is a good harvest, you are right; shock stands close by shock
+here!'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty; and the people here make STEIGS (mounts) of
+them too.'
+
+KING. "'Steigs, what is that?'
+
+ICH. "'That is 20 sheaves piled all together.'
+
+KING. "'Oh, it is indisputably a good harvest. But tell me, though, why
+did Kleist of Protzen take his discharge?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I do not know. I suppose he was obliged to take his
+father's estates in hand: no other cause do I know of.'
+
+KING. "'What's the name of this village we are coming to?'
+
+ICH. "'Garz.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To the Kriegsrath von Quast.'
+
+KING. "'To WHOM belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To Kriegsrath von Quast.'
+
+KING. "'EY WAS [pooh, pooh]! I know nothing of Kriegsraths!--To whom
+does the Estate belong?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Quast.' Friedrich had the greatest contempt for
+Kriegsraths, and indeed for most other RATHS or titular shams, labelled
+boxes with nothing in the inside: on a horrible winter-morning (sleet,
+thunder, &c.), marching off hours before sunrise, he has been heard to
+say, 'Would one were a Kriegsrath!
+
+KING. "'Na, that is the right answer.'
+
+"His Majesty now arrived at Garz. The changing of the horses was managed
+by Herr von Luderitz of Nackeln, as first Deputy of the Ruppin Circle.
+He had his hat on, and a white feather in it. When the yoking was
+completed, our journey proceeded again.
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs this estate on the left here?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr van Luderitz; it is called Nackeln.'
+
+KING. "'What Luderitz is that?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he that was in Garz while the horses were
+changing.'
+
+KING. "'Ha, ha, the Herr with the white feather!--Do you sow wheat too?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'How much have you sown?'
+
+ICH. "'Three WISPELS 12 SCHEFFELS,' unknown measures!
+
+KING. "'How much did your predecessor use to sow?'
+
+ICH. "'Four scheffels.'
+
+KING. "'How has it come that you sow so much more than he?'
+
+ICH. "'As I have already had the honor to tell your Majesty that I keep
+seventy head of cows more than he, I have of course more manure for my
+ground, and so put it in a better case for bearing wheat.'
+
+KING. "'But why do you grow no hemp?'
+
+ICH. "'It would not answer here. In a cold climate it would answer
+better. Our sailors can buy Russian hemp in Lubeck cheaper, and of
+better quality than I could grow here.'
+
+KING. "'What do you sow, then, where you used to have hemp?'
+
+ICH. "'Wheat!'
+
+KING. "'Why do you sow no Farbekraut, ["DYE-HERB:" commonly called
+"FARBERROTHE;" yields a coarse RED, on decoction of the twigs and
+branches; from its roots the finer red called "KRAPP" (in French
+GARANCE) is got.] no Krapp?'
+
+ICH. "'It will not prosper; the ground is n't good enough.'
+
+KING. "'That is people's talk: you should have made the trial.'
+
+ICH. "'I did make the trial; but it failed; and as Beamte I cannot make
+many trials; for, let them fail or not, the rent must be paid.'
+
+KING. "'What do you sow, then, where you would have put Farbekraut?'
+
+ICH. "'Wheat.'
+
+KING. "'Na! Then stand by wheat!--Your tenants are in good case, I
+suppose?'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty. I can show by the Register of Hypothecks
+(HYPOTHEKENBUCH) that they have about 50 thousand thalers of capital
+among them.'
+
+KING. "'That is good.'
+
+ICH. "'Three years ago a tenant died who had 11,000 thalers,' say 2,000
+pounds, 'in the Bank.'
+
+KING. "'How much?'
+
+ICH. "'Eleven thousand thalers.'
+
+KING. "'Keep them so always!'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, it is very good that the tenant have money; but
+he becomes mutinous too, as the tenants hereabouts do, who have seven
+times over complained to your Majesty against me, to get rid of the
+HOFDIENST,' stated work due from them.
+
+KING. "'They will have had some cause too!'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty will graciously pardon: there was an investigation
+gone into, and it was found that I had not oppressed the tenants, but
+had always gone upon my right, and merely held them to do their duty.
+Nevertheless the matter stood as it was: the tenants are not punished;
+your Majesty puts always the tenants in the right, the poor Beamte is
+always in the wrong!'
+
+KING. "'Ja: that you, my son, will contrive to get justice, you, I
+cannot but believe! You will send your Departmentsrath [Judge of these
+affairs] such pretty gifts of butter, capons, poults!'
+
+ICH. "'No, your Majesty, we cannot. Corn brings no price: if one did not
+turn a penny with other things, how could one raise the rent at all?'
+
+KING. "'Where do you send your butter, capons and poults (PUTER) for
+sale?'
+
+ICH. "'To Berlin.'
+
+KING. "'Why not to Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'Most of the Ruppin people keep cows, as many as are needed for
+their own uses. The soldier eats nothing but old [salt] butter, he
+cannot buy fresh.'
+
+KING. "'What do you get for your butter in Berlin?'
+
+ICH. "'Four groschen the pound; now the soldier at Ruppin buys his salt
+butter at two.'
+
+KING. "'But your capons and poults, you could bring these to Ruppin?'
+
+ICH. "'In the regiment there are just four Staff-Officers; they can use
+but little: the burghers don't live delicately; they thank God when they
+can get a bit of pork or bacon.'
+
+KING. "'Yes, there you are in the right! The Berliners, again, like
+to eat some dainty article.--Na! do what you will with the tenants
+[UNTERTHANEN, not quite ADSCRIPTS at that time on the Royal Demesnes,
+but tied to many services, and by many shackles, from which Friedrich
+all his days was gradually delivering them]; only don't oppress them.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, that would never be my notion, nor any reasonable
+Beamte's.'
+
+KING. "'Tell me, then, where does Stollen lie?'
+
+ICH. "'Stollen your Majesty cannot see just here. Those big hills there
+on the left are the hills at Stollen; there your Majesty will have a
+view of all the Colonies.'
+
+KING. "'So? That is well. Then ride you with us thither.'
+
+"Now his Majesty came upon a quantity of peasants who were mowing rye;
+they had formed themselves into two rows, were wiping their scythes, and
+so let his Majesty drive through them.
+
+KING. "'What the Devil, these people will be wanting money from me, I
+suppose?'
+
+ICH. "'Oh no, your Majesty! They are full of joy that you are so
+gracious as to visit this district.'
+
+KING. "'I'll give them nothing, though.--What village is that, there
+ahead of us?'
+
+ICH. "'Barsekow.'
+
+KING. "'To whom belongs it?'
+
+ICH. "'To Herr von Mitschepfal.'
+
+KING. "'What Mitschepfal is that?'
+
+ICH. "'He was Major in the regiment which your Majesty had when
+Crown-Prince.' [Supra, vii. 403.]
+
+KING. "'Mein Gott! Is he still alive?'
+
+ICH. "'No, HE is dead; his daughter has the estate.'
+
+"We now came into the village of Barsekow, where the Manor-house is in
+ruins.
+
+KING. "'Hear! Is that the manor-house (EDELHOF)?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja.'
+
+KING. "'That does look miserable.' Here Mitschepfal's daughter, who has
+married a baronial Herr von Kriegsheim from Mecklenburg, came forward
+while the horses were changing. Kriegsheim came on account of her into
+this country: the King has given them a Colony of 200 MORGEN (acres).
+Coming to the carriage, Frau von Kriegsheim handed some fruit to his
+Majesty. His Majesty declined with thanks; asked, who her father was,
+when he died, &c. On a sudden, she presented her husband; began to thank
+for the 200 MORGEN; mounted on the coach-step; wished to kiss, if not
+his Majesty's hand, at least his coat. His Majesty shifted quite to the
+other side of the carriage, and cried"--good old Fritz!--"'Let be, my
+daughter, let be! It is all well!--Amtmann, let us get along (MACHT DASS
+WIR FORTKOMMEN)!'
+
+KING. "'Hear now: these people are not prospering here?'
+
+ICH. "'Far from it, your Majesty; they are in the greatest poverty.'
+
+KING. "'That is bad.--Tell me though; there lived a Landrath here
+before: he had a quantity of children: can't you recollect his name?'
+
+ICH. "'That will have been the Landrath von Gorgas of Genser.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, ja, that was he. Is he dead now?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty. He died in 1771: and it was very singular; in
+one fortnight he, his wife and four sons all died. The other four that
+were left had all the same sickness too, which was a hot fever; and
+though the sons, being in the Army, were in different garrisons, and no
+brother had visited the other, they all got the same illness, and came
+out of it with merely their life left.'
+
+KING. "'That was a desperate affair (VERZWEIFELTER UMSTAND GEWESEN)!
+Where are the four sons that are still in life?'
+
+ICH. "'One is in the Ziethen Hussars, one in the Gens-d'-Armes, another
+was in the regiment Prinz Ferdinand, and lives on the Estate Dersau. The
+fourth is son-in-law of Herr General von Ziethen. He was lieutenant in
+the Ziethen Regiment; but in the last war (POTATO-WAR, 1778), on account
+of his ill health, your Majesty gave him his discharge; and he now lives
+in Genser.'
+
+KING. "'So? That is one of the Gorgases, then!--Are you still making
+experiments with the foreign kinds of corn?'
+
+ICH. "'O ja; this year I have sown Spanish barley. But it will not
+rightly take hold; I must give it up again. However, the Holstein
+STOOLing-rye (STAUDENROGGEN) has answered very well.'
+
+KING. "'What kind of rye is that?'
+
+ICH. "'It grows in Holstein in the Low Grounds (NIEDERUNG). Never below
+the 10th grain [10 reaped for 1 sown] have I yet had it.'
+
+KING. "'Nu, nu [Ho, ho], surely not the 10th grain all at once!'
+
+ICH. "'That is not much. Please your Majesty to ask the Herr General
+von Gortz [who has not spoken a syllable all day]; he knows this is not
+reckoned much in Holstein:'--(the General Graf von Gortz I first had the
+honor to make acquaintance with in Holstein).
+
+"They now talked, for a while, of the rye, in the carriage together.
+Presently his Majesty called to me from the carriage, 'Na, stand by the
+Holstein STAUDEN-rye, then; and give some to the tenants too.'
+
+ICH. "'Yes, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'But give me some idea: what kind of appearance had the Luch
+before it was drained?'
+
+ICH. "'It was mere high rough masses of hillocks (HULLEN); between them
+the water settled, and had no flow. In the driest years we couldn't cart
+the hay out, but had to put it up in big ricks. Only in winter, when
+the frost was sharp, could we get it home. But now we have cut away the
+hillocks; and the trenches that your Majesty got made for us take the
+water off. And now the Luch is as dry as your Majesty sees, and we can
+carry out our hay when we please.'
+
+KING. "'That is well. Have your tenants, too, more cattle than
+formerly?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja!'
+
+KING. "'How many more?'
+
+ICH. "'Many have one cow, many two, according as their means admit.'
+
+KING. "'But how many more have they in all? About how many, that is?'
+
+ICH. "'About 150 head.'
+
+"His Majesty must lately have asked the Herr General von Gortz, how I
+came to know him,--as I told his Majesty to ask General von Gortz about
+the Holstein rye;--and presumably the Herr General must have answered,
+what was the fact, That he had first known me in Holstein, where I dealt
+in horses, and that I had been at Potsdam with horses. Suddenly his
+Majesty said: 'Hear! I know you are fond of horses. But give up that,
+and prefer cows; you will find your account better there.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, I no longer deal in horses. I merely rear a few
+foals every year.'
+
+KING. "'Rear calves instead; that will be better.'
+
+ICH. "'Oh, your Majesty, if one takes pains with it, there is no loss in
+breeding horses. I know a man who got, two years ago, 1,000 thalers for
+a stallion of his raising.'
+
+KING. "'He must have been a fool that gave it.'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, he was a Mecklenburg nobleman.'
+
+KING. "'But nevertheless a fool.'
+
+"We now came upon the territory of the Amt Neustadt; and here the
+Amtsrath Klausius, who has the Amt in farm, was in waiting on the
+boundary, and let his Majesty drive past. But as I began to get tired
+of the speaking, and his Majesty went on always asking about villages,
+which stand hereabouts in great quantity, and I had always to name the
+owner, and say what sons he had in the Army,--I brought up Herr Amtsrath
+Klausius to the carriage, and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, this is the Amtsrath Klausius, of the Amt Neustadt,
+in whose jurisdiction the Colonies are.'
+
+KING. "'So, so! that is very good (DAS IST MIR LIEB). Bring him up.'
+
+KING. "'What's your name?' (from this point the King spoke mostly with
+Amtsrath Klausius, and I only wrote down what I heard).
+
+KL. "'Klausius.'
+
+KING. "'Klau-si-us. Na, have you many cattle here on the Colonies?'
+
+KL. "'1,887 head of cows, your Majesty. There would have been above
+3,000, had it not been for the murrain that was here.'
+
+KING. "'Do the people too increase well? Are there jolly children?'
+
+KL. "'O ja, your Majesty; there are now 1,576 souls upon the Colonies.'
+
+KING. "'Are you married too?'
+
+KL. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'And have you children?'
+
+KL. "'Step-children, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Why not of your own?'
+
+KL. "'Don't know that, your Majesty; as it happens.'
+
+KING. "'Hear: Is it far to the Mecklenburg border, here where we are?'
+
+KL. "'Only a short mile [5 miles English]. But there are some villages
+scattered still within the boundary which belong to Brandenburg. There
+are Stetzebart, Rosso and so on.'
+
+KING. "'Ja, ja, I know them. But I should not have thought we were so
+near upon the Mecklenburg country.' [TO THE HERR AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS]
+'Where were you born?'
+
+KL. "'At Neustadt on the Dosse.'
+
+KING. "'What was your father?'
+
+KL. "'Clergyman.'
+
+KING. "'Are they good people, these Colonists? The first generation of
+them is n't usually good for much.'
+
+KL. "'They are getting on, better or worse.'
+
+KING. "'Do they manage their husbandry well?'
+
+KL. "'O ja, your Majesty. His Excellency the Minister von Derschau, too,
+has given me a Colony of 75 acres, to show the other Colonists a good
+example in management.'
+
+KING (smiling). "'Ha, ha! good example! But tell me, I see no wood here:
+where do the Colonists get their timber?'
+
+KL. "'From the Ruppin district.'
+
+KING. "'How far is that?'
+
+KL. "'3 miles' [15 English].
+
+KING. "'Well, that's a great way. It should have been contrived that
+they could have it nearer hand.' [TO ME] 'What man is that to the right
+there?'
+
+ICH. "'Bauinspector [Buildings-Inspector] Menzelius, who has charge of
+the buildings in these parts.'
+
+KING. "'Am I in Rome? They are mere Latin names!--Why is that hedged in
+so high?'
+
+ICH. "'That is the mule-stud.'
+
+KING. "'What is the name of this Colony?'
+
+ICH. "'Klausiushof.'
+
+KL. "'Your Majesty, it should be called Klaushof.'
+
+KING. "'Its name is Klausiushof. What is the other Colony called?'
+
+ICH. "'Brenkenhof.'
+
+KING. "'That is not its name.'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, I know it by no other!'
+
+KING. "'Its name is Brenken-hosius-hof!--Are these the Stollen hills
+that lie before us?'
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Have I to drive through the village?'
+
+ICH. "'It is not indispensable; but the change of horses is there. If
+your Majesty give order, I will ride forward, send the fresh horses
+out of the village, and have them stationed to wait at the foot of the
+hills.'
+
+KING. "'O ja, do so! Take one of my pages with you.'
+
+"I now took measures about the new team of horses, but so arranged it,
+that when his Majesty got upon the hills I was there too. At
+dismounting from his carriage on the hill-top, his Majesty demanded a
+prospect-glass; looked round the whole region, and then said: 'Well, in
+truth, that is beyond my expectation! That is beautiful! I must say this
+to you, all of you that have worked in this business, you have behaved
+like honorable people!'--[TO ME] 'Tell me now, is the Elbe far from
+here?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, it is 2 miles off [10 miles]. Yonder is Wurben in
+the Altmark; it lies upon the Elbe.'
+
+KING. "'That cannot be! Give me the glass again.--Ja, ja, it is true,
+though. But what other steeple is that?'
+
+ICH. "'Your Majesty, that is Havelberg.'
+
+KING. "'Na, come here, all of you!' (THERE WERE AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS,
+BAUINSPECTOR MENZELIUS AND I.) 'Hear now, the tract of moor here to the
+left must also be reclaimed; and what is to the right too, so far as the
+moor extends. What kind of wood is there on it?'
+
+ICH. "'Alders (ELSEN) and oaks, your Majesty.'
+
+KING. "'Na! the alders you may root out; and the oaks may continue
+standing; the people may sell these, or use them otherwise. When once
+the ground is arable, I reckon upon 300 families for it, and 500 head of
+cows,--ha?'--Nobody answered; at last I began, and said:--
+
+ICH. "'Ja, your Majesty, perhaps!'
+
+KING. "'Hear now, you may answer me with confidence. There will be more
+or fewer families. I know well enough one cannot, all at once, exactly
+say. I was never there, don't know the ground; otherwise I could
+understand equally with you how many families could be put upon it.'
+
+THE BAUINSPECTOR. "'Your Majesty, the LUCH is still subject to rights of
+common from a great many hands.'
+
+KING. "'No matter for that. You must make exchanges, give them an
+equivalent, according as will answer best in the case. I want nothing
+from anybody except at its value.' [TO AMTSRATH KLAUSIUS] 'Na, hear
+now, you can write to my Kammer [BOARD, Board-of-Works that does NOT sit
+idle!], what it is that I want reclaimed to the plough; the money for
+it I will give.' [TO ME] 'And you, you go to Berlin, and explain to my
+Geheimer-Rath Michaelis, by word of mouth, what it is I want reclaimed.'
+
+"His Majesty now stept into his carriage again [was Gortz sitting all
+the while, still in silence? Or had he perhaps got out at the bottom of
+the hill, and sat down to a contemplative pipe of tobacco, the smoke of
+which, heart-cheering to Gortz, was always disagreeable to Friedrich?
+Nobody knows!]--and drove down the hill; there the horses were changed.
+And now, as his Majesty's order was that I should 'attend him to the
+Stollen hills,' I went up to the carriage, and asked:--
+
+ICH. "'Does your Majesty command that I should yet accompany farther'
+["BEFEHLEN, command," in the plural is polite, "your Majesty, that I yet
+farther shall WITH"]?
+
+KING. "'No, my son; ride, in God's name, home.'--
+
+"The Herr Amtsrath [Klau-si-us] then accompanied his Majesty to
+Rathenow, where he [THEY: His Majesty is plural] lodged in the
+Post-house. At Rathenow, during dinner, his Majesty was uncommonly
+cheerful: he dined with Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof of the
+Carabineers, and the Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof himself has
+related that his Majesty said:--
+
+"'My good Von Backhof (MEIN LIEBER VON BACKHOF): if He [you] have
+not for a long time been in the Fehrbellin neighborhood, go there.'"
+Fehrbellin, the Prussian BANNOCKBURN; where the Great Elector cut the
+hitherto invincible Swedes IN TWO, among the DAMS and intricate moory
+quagmires, with a vastly inferior force, nearly all of cavalry (led by
+one DERFLINGER, who in his apprentice time had been a TAILOR); beat
+one end of them all to rags, then galloped off and beat the other into
+ditto; quite taking the conceit out of the Swedes, or at least clearing
+Prussia of them forever and a day: a feat much admired by Friedrich:
+"'Go there,' he says. 'That region is uncommonly improved [as I saw
+to-day]! I have not for a long time had such a pleasant drive. I decided
+on this journey because I had no REVIEW on hand; and it has given me
+such pleasure that I shall certainly have another by and by.'
+
+"'Tell me now: how did you get on in the last War [KARTOFFEL KRIEG, no
+fighting, only a scramble for proviant and "potatoes"]? Most likely ill!
+You in Saxony too could make nothing out. The reason was, we had not men
+to fight against, but cannons! I might have done a thing or two; but I
+should have sacrificed more than the half of my Army, and shed innocent
+human blood. In that case I should have deserved to be taken to the
+Guard-house door, and to have got a sixscore there (EINEN OFFFENTLICHEN
+PRODUKT)! Wars are becoming frightful to carry on.'
+
+"'This was surely touching to hear from the mouth of a great Monarch,'
+said Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof to me, and tears came into that
+old soldier's eyes." Afterwards his Majesty had said:--
+
+"Of the Battle of Fehrbellin I know everything, almost as if I myself
+had been there! While I was Crown-Prince, and lay in Ruppin, there was
+an old townsman, the man was even then very old: he could describe the
+whole Battle, and knew the scene of it extremely well. Once I got into a
+carriage, took my old genius with me, who showed me all over the ground,
+and described everything so distinctly, I was much contented with him.
+As we were coming back, I thought: Come, let me have a little fun with
+the old blade;--so I asked him: 'Father, don't you know, then, why the
+two Sovereigns came to quarrel with one another?'--'O ja, your Royal
+HighnessES [from this point we have Platt-Deutsch, PRUSSIAN dialect, for
+the old man's speech; barely intelligible, as Scotch is to an ingenious
+Englishman], DAT WILL ICK SE WOHL SEGGEN, I can easily tell you that.
+When our Chorforste [Kurfursts, Great Elector] was young, he studied in
+Utrecht; and there the King of Sweden happened to be too. And now the
+two young lords picked some quarrel, got to pulling caps [fell into
+one another's hair], AND DIT IS NU DE PICKE DAVON, and this now was
+the upshot of it.'--His Majesty spoke this in Platt-Deutsch, as here
+given;--but grew at table so weary that he (they) fell asleep." So far
+Backhof;--and now again Fromme by way of finish:--
+
+"Of his Majesty's journey I can give no farther description. For though
+his Majesty spoke and asked many things else; it would be difficult to
+bring them all to paper." And so ends the DAY WITH FRIEDRICH THE GREAT;
+very flat, but I dare say very TRUE:--a Daguerrotype of one of his Days.
+
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