Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
Page: 40

nearly undecipherable to the reader and me, would throw light on
the point:--


SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE
CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.

The reader knows Lieutenant-General Schulenburg; stiff little
military gentleman of grave years, nephew of the maypole EMERITA
who is called Duchess of Kendal in England. "Had a horse shot
under him at Malplaquet;" battlings and experiences enough, before
and since. Has real sense, abundant real pedantry; a Prussian
soldier every inch. He presided in the Copenick Court-martial;
he is deeply concerned in these Crown-Prince difficulties.
His Majesty even honors him by expecting he should quietly keep a
monitorial eye upon the Crown-Prince;--being his neighbor in those
parts; Colonel-Commandant of a regiment of Horse at Landsberg not
many miles off. He has just been at Vienna [September, 1731
( Militair-Lexikon, iii. 433).] on some
"business", (quasi-diplomatic probably, which can remain unknown
to us); and has reported upon it, or otherwise finished it off, at
Berlin;--whence rapidly home to Landsberg again. On the way
homewards, and after getting home, he writes these three Letters;
off-hand and in all privacy, and of course with a business
sincerity, to Grumkow;--little thinking they would one day get
printed, and wander into these latitudes to be scanned and
scrutinized! Undoubtedly an intricate crabbed Document to us;
but then an indubitable one. Crown-Prince, Schulenburg himself,
and the actual figure of Time and Place, are here mirrored for us,
with a business sincerity, in the mind of Schulenburg,--as from an
accidental patch of water; ruffled bog-water, in sad twilight, and
with sedges and twigs intervening; but under these conditions we
do look with our own eyes!

Could not one, by any conceivable method, interpret into
legibility this abstruse dull Document; and so pick out here and
there a glimpse, actual face-to-face view, of Crown-Prince
Friedrich in his light-gray frock with the narrow silver tresses,
in his eclipsed condition there in the Custrin region? All is very
mysterious about him; his inward opinion about all manner of