Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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will be a supereminent sovereign!--

"There is still some haggle about Tuscany, the Duke of which is
old and heirless; Last of the Medici, as he proved. Baby Carlos
would much like to have Tuscany too; but that is a Fief of the
Empire, and might easily be better disposed of, thinks the Kaiser.
A more or less uncertain point, that of Tuscany; as many points
are! Last of the Medici complained, in a polite manner, that they
were parting his clothes before he had put them off: however,
having no strength, he did not attempt resistance, but politely
composed himself, 'Well, then!' [Scholl, ii. 219-221; Coxe's
Walpole, i. 346; Coxe's House of
Austria (London, 1854), iii. 151.] Do readers need to
be informed that this same Baby Carlos came to be King of Naples,
and even ultimately to be Carlos III. of Spain, leaving a younger
Son to be King of Naples, ancestor of the now Majesty there?"

And thus, after such Diplomatic earthquakes and travail of Nature,
there is at last birth; the Seventh Travail-throe has been
successful, in some measure successful. Here actually is Baby
Carlos's Apanage; there probably, by favor of Heaven and of the
Sea-Powers, will the Kaiser's Pragmatic Sanction be, one day.
Treaty of Seville, most imminent of all those dreadful Imminencies
of War, has passed off as they all did; peaceably adjusts itself
into Treaty of Vienna: A Termagant, as it were, sated; a Kaiser
hopeful to be so, Pragmatic Sanction and all: for the Sea-Powers
and everybody mere halcyon weather henceforth,--not extending to
the Gulf of Florida and Captain Jenkins, as would seem! Robinson,
who did the thing,--an expert man, bred to business as old Horace
Walpole's Secretary, at Soissons and elsewhere, and now come to
act on his own score,--regards this Treaty of Vienna (which indeed
had its multiform difficulties) as a thing to immortalize a man.

Crown-Prince has, long since, by Papa's order, written to the
Kaiser, to thank Imperial Majesty for that beneficent
intercession, which has proved the saving of his life, as Papa
inculcates. We must now see a little how the saved Crown-Prince is