so far as an indignant Kaiser could. However, at the Peace of
Westphalia (1648) it was found incompetent to any Kaiser to
abrogate PFULZ or the like of Pfalz, a Kurfurst of the Empire.
So, after jargon inconceivable, it was settled, That PFALZ must be
reinstated, though with territories much clipped, and at the
bottom of the list, not the top as formerly; and that BAIERN,
who could not stand to be balked after twenty years' possession,
must be made EIGHTH Elector. The NINTH, we saw (Year 1692), was
Gentleman Ernst of HANOVER. There never was any Tenth; and the
Holy ROMISCHE REICH, which was a grand object once, but had gone
about in a superannuated and plainly crazy state for some
centuries back, was at last put out of pain, by Napoleon,
'6th August, 1806,' and allowed to cease from this world."
[Ms. penes me. ]

None of Albert's wars are so comfortable to reflect on as those he
had with the anarchic Wends; whom he now fairly beat to powder,
and either swept away, or else damped down into Christianity and
keeping of the peace. Swept them away otherwise; "peopling their
lands extensively with Colonists from Holland, whom an inroad of
the sea had rendered homeless there." Which surely was a useful
exchange. Nothing better is known to me of Albert the Bear than
this his introducing large numbers of Dutch Netherlanders into
those countries; men thrown out of work, who already knew how to
deal with bog and sand, by mixing and delving, and who first
taught Brandenburg what greenness and cow-pasture was. The Wends,
in presence of such things, could not but consent more and more to
efface themselves,--either to become German, and grow milk and
cheese in the Dutch manner, or to disappear from the world.