the Crown-Prince) is Commandant, and expects his rapid Majesty,
day and hour given, to me not known, Majesty goes in three
carriages; Old Dessauer, Grumkow, Seckendorf, Ginkel are among his
suite; weather still very electric:--

"At Fischhausen, half-way to Pillau, Majesty had a bout of
elk-hunting; killed sixty elks [Melton-Mowbray may consider it],--
creatures of the deer sort, nimble as roes, but strong as bulls,
and four palms higher than the biggest horse,--to the astonishment
of Seckendorf, Ginkel and the strangers there. Half an hour short
of Pillau, furious electricity again; thunder-bolt shivered an
oak-tree fifteen yards from Majesty's carriage. And at Pillau
itself, the Battalion in Garrison there, drawn out in arms, by
Count Finkenstein, to receive his Majesty [rain over by this time,
we can hope], had suddenly to rush forward and take new ground;
Frische Haf, on some pressure from the elements, having suddenly
gushed out, two hundred paces beyond its old watermark in that
place." [See Mauvillon, ii. 293-297;--CORRECTING by Fassmann,
p. 422.]

Pillau, Fischhausen,--this is where the excellent old Adalbert
stamped the earth with his life "in the shape of a crucifix" eight
hundred years ago: and these are the new phenomena there!--
The General Dockum, Colonel of Dragoons, whom his Majesty dined
with at Wehlau, got his death not many months after. One of
Dockum's Dragoon Lieutenants felt insulted at something, and
demanded his discharge: discharge given, he challenged Dockum,
duel of pistols, and shot him dead. [7th April, 1732
( Militair-Lexikon, i. 365).] Nothing more to
be said of Dockum, nor of that Lieutenant, in military annals.