Chapter IV.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE.

Not that his Majesty, while at the deepest in domestic
intricacies, ever neglects Public Business. This very summer he is
raising Hussar Squadrons; bent to introduce the Hussar kind of
soldiery into his Army;--a good deal of horse-breaking and new
sabre-exercise needed for that object. [Fassmann, pp. 417, 418.]
The affairs of the Reich have at no moment been out of his eye;
glad to see the Kaiser edging round to the Sea-Powers again, and
things coming into their old posture, in spite of that sad Treaty
of Seville.

Nay, for the last two years, while the domestic volcanoes were at
their worst, his Majesty has been extensively dealing with a new
question which has risen, that of the SALZBURG PROTESTANTS;
concerning which we shall hear more anon. Far and wide, in the
Diets and elsewhere, he has been diligently, piously and with
solid judgment, handling this question of the poor Salzburgers;
and has even stored up moneys in intended solace of them (for he
foresees what the end will be);--moneys which, it appears about
this time, a certain Official over in Preussen has been
peculating! In the end of June, his Majesty sets off to Preussen
on the usual Inspection Tour; which we should not mention, were it
not in regard to that same Official, and to something very
rhadamanthine and particular which befell him; significant of what
his Majesty can do in the way of prompt justice.