visible in that Schlossplatz of Konigsberg. Here is prompt justice
with a witness! Did readers ever hear of such a thing? There is no
doubt about the fact, [Benekendorf (Anonymous),
Karakterzuge aus dem Leben Konig Friedrich Wilhelm I.
(Berlin, 1788), vii. 15-20; Forster (ii. 268), &c. &c.] though in
all Prussian Books it is loosely smeared over, without the least
precision of detail; and it was not till after long searching that
I could so much as get it dated: July, 1731, while Friedrich
Crown-Prince is still in eclipse at Custrin, and some six weeks
after Wilhelmina's betrothal. And here furthermore, direct from
the then Schlubhut precincts, is a stray Note, meteorological
chiefly; but worth picking up, since it is authentic. "Wehlau," we
observe, is on the road homewards again,--on our return from
uttermost Memel,--a day's journey hitherwards of that place, half
a day's thitherwards of Konigsberg:--

"TUESDAY, 10th JULY, 1731. King dining with General Dockum at
Wehlau,"--where he had been again reviewing, for about forty
hours, all manner of regiments brought to rendezvous there for the
purpose, poor "General Katte with his regiment" among them;--King
at dinner with General Dockum after all that, "took the resolution
to be off to Konigsberg; and arrived here at the stroke of
midnight, in a deluge of rain." This brings us within a day, or
two days, of Schlubhut's death, Terrible "combat of Bisons (URI,
or AUEROCHSEN, with such manes, such heads), of two wild Bisons
against six wild Bears," then ensued; and the Schlubhut human
tragedy; I know not in what sequence,--rather conjecture the
Schlubhut had gone FIRST. Pillau, road to Dantzig, on the narrow
strip between the Frische Haf and Baltic, is the next stage
homewards; at Pillau, General Finkenstein (excellent old Tutor of