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sabre-exercise needed for that object. [Fassmann, pp. 417, 418.]
The affairs of the Reich have at no moment been out of his eye;
glad to see the Kaiser edging round to the Sea-Powers again, and
things coming into their old posture, in spite of that sad Treaty
of Seville.

Nay, for the last two years, while the domestic volcanoes were at
their worst, his Majesty has been extensively dealing with a new
question which has risen, that of the SALZBURG PROTESTANTS;
concerning which we shall hear more anon. Far and wide, in the
Diets and elsewhere, he has been diligently, piously and with
solid judgment, handling this question of the poor Salzburgers;
and has even stored up moneys in intended solace of them (for he
foresees what the end will be);--moneys which, it appears about
this time, a certain Official over in Preussen has been
peculating! In the end of June, his Majesty sets off to Preussen
on the usual Inspection Tour; which we should not mention, were it
not in regard to that same Official, and to something very
rhadamanthine and particular which befell him; significant of what
his Majesty can do in the way of prompt justice.


CASE OF SCHLUBHUT.

The Konigsberg Domain-Board (KRIEGS- UND DOMANEN-KAMMER) had
fallen awry, in various points, of late; several things known to
be out-at-elbows in that Country; the Kammer Raths evidently lax
at their post; for which reason they have been sharply questioned,
and shaken by the collar, so to speak. Nay there is one Rath, a
so-called Nobleman of those parts, by name Schlubhut, who has been
found actually defaulting; peculating from that pious hoard
intended for the Salzburgers: he is proved, and confesses, to have
put into his own scandalous purse no less than 11,000 thalers,
some say 30,000 (almost 5,000 pounds), which belonged to the
Public Treasury and the Salzburg Protestants! These things,
especially this latter unheard-of Schlubhut thing, the Supreme
Court at Berlin (CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM) have been sitting on, for
some time; and, in regard to Schlubhut, they have brought out a
result, which Friedrich Wilhelm not a little admires at. Schlubhut