Excellency Hotham LOQUITUR (in a greatly condensed form).

BERLIN, 12th APRIL, 1730. "... Of one or two noteworthy points
I have to apprise your Lordship. So soon as his Majesty was sober,
he found that he had gone too far at that grand dinner of Monday
3d; and was in very bad humor in consequence. Crown-Prince has
written from Potsdam to his Sister, 'No doubt I am left here lest
the English wind get at me ( de peur que le vent anglais
ne me touchat ).' Saw King at Parade, who was a little
vague; 'is giving matters his consideration.' Majesty has said to
Borck and Knyphausen, 'If they want the Double-Marriage, and to
detach me from the Kaiser, let them propose something about Julich
and Berg.' Sits the wind in that quarter? King has said since, to
one Marschall, a Private-Secretary who is in our interest: 'I hate
my Son, and my Son hates me: we are best asunder;--let them make
him STATTHALTER (Vice-regent) of Hanover, with his Princess!'
Commission might be made out in the Princess Amelia's name;
proper conditions tied, and so on:--Knyphausen suggests it could
be done. Knyphausen is true to us; but he stands alone [not alone,
but cannot much help]; does not even stir in the NOSTI or
ST.-MARY-AXE Affair as yet."

Prince Friedrich to be STATTHALTER in Hanover with his English
Princess? That would save the expense of an Establishment for him
at home. That has been suggested by the Knyphausen or English
party: and no doubt it looked flattering to his Prussian Majesty
for moments. This may be called Epoch first, after that grand
Charlottenburg Dinner.