Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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weeping, at the close of the business. [Preuss, i. 56.]

Straight from Church the Prince is conducted, not to the Fortress,
but to a certain Town Mansion, which he is to call his own
henceforth, under conditions: an erring Prince half liberated, and
mercifully put on proof again. His first act here is to write, of
his own composition, or helped by some official hand, this Letter
to his All-serenest Papa; which must be introduced, though, except
to readers of German who know the "DERE" (TheirO),
"ALLERDURCHLAUCHTIGSTER," and strange pipe-clay solemnity of the
Court-style, it is like to be in great part lost in any
translation:--

"CUSTRIN, 19th November, 1730.

"ALL-SERENEST AND ALL-GRACIOUSEST FATHER,--To your Royal Majesty,
my All-graciousest Father, have,"--I.E. "I have," if one durst
write the "I,"--"by my disobedience as TheirO [YourO] subject and
soldier, not less than by my undutifulness as TheirO Son, given
occasion to a just wrath and aversion against me. With the
All-obedientest respect I submit myself wholly to the grace of my
most All-gracious Father; and beg him, Most All-graciously to
pardon me; as it is not so much the withdrawal of my liberty in a
sad arrest (MALHEUREUSEN ARREST), as my own thoughts of the fault
I have committed, that have brought me to reason: Who, with
all-obedientest respect and submission, continue till my end,

"My All-graciousest King's and Father's faithfully obedientest
Servant and Son,

"FRIEDRICH."

[Preuss, i. 56, 57; and Anonymous, Friedrichs des Grossen
Briefe an seinen Vater (Berlin, Posen und Bromberg,
1838), p. 3.]

This new House of Friedrich's in the little Town of Custrin, he
finds arranged for him on rigorously thrifty principles, yet as a
real Household of his own; and even in the form of a Court, with
Hofmarschall, Kammerjunkers, and the other adjuncts;--Court
reduced to its simplest expression, as the French say, and
probably the cheapest that was ever set up. Hafmarschall
(Court-marshal) is one Wolden, a civilian Official here.
The Kammerjunkers are Rohwedel and Natzmer; Matzmer Junior, son of
a distinguished Feldmarschall: "a good-hearted but foolish forward