Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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words, which we may take to be the essence of the whole.
Grumkow reporting, in a sordid, occasionally smutty, spy manner,
to his Seckendorf, from Berlin, eight or ten months hence, has
this casual expression: "He [King Friedrich Wilhelm] told me in
confidence that Wreech, the Colonel's Wife, is--to P. R.
(Prince-Royal); and that Wreech vowed he would not own it for his.
And his Majesty in secret is rather pleased," adds the smutty spy.
[Grumkow to Seckendorf, Berlin, 20th August, 1732 (Forster, iii.
112).] Elsewhere I have read that the poor object, which actually
came as anticipated (male or female, I forget), did not live
long;--nor had Friedrich, by any opportunity, another child in
this world. Domestic Tamsel had to allay itself as it best could;
and the fair Wreech became much a stranger to Friedrich,--
surprisingly so to Friedrich the KING, as perhaps we may see.--

Predestination, GNADENWAHL, Herr General: what is orthodoxy on
Predestination, with these accompaniments! [For Wreech, see
Benekendorf, v. 94; for Schulenburg,
ib. 26;--and Militair-Lexikon, iii. 432,
433, and iv. 268, 269. Vacant on the gossiping points; cautiously
official, both these.] We go now to the Second Letter and the
Third,--from Landsberg about a fortnight later:--

No. 2. TO HIS EXCELLENCY (shovelful of titles) VON GRUMKOW, IN BERLIN.

"LANDSBERG, 19th October, 1731.

"The day before yesterday [that is, Wednesday, 17th October] I
received an Order, To have only fifty Horse at that post, and"--
Order which shows us that there has fallen out some recruiting
squabble on the Polish Frontier hereabouts; that the Polack
gentlemen have seized certain Corporals of ours, but are about
restoring them; Order and affair which we shall omit. "Corporals
will be got back: but as these Polack gentlemen: will see, by the
course taken, that we have no great stomach for BITING, I fancy
they will grow more insolent; then, 'ware who tries to recruit
there for the future!

"On the same day I was apprised, from Custrin, That the
Prince-Royal had resolved on an excursion to Carzig, and thence to