that fiat of September 15th, get his Select Commission of Six
riddled together and adjoined to him,--the likeliest Six that
Prussia, in her different Provinces, could yield;--and got the
STANDE of Pommern, after due committeeing and deliberating, to
consent and promise help. December 31st, 1746, was the day the
STANDE consented: and January 10th, 1747, Cocceji and his Six set
out for Pommern. On a longish Enterprise, in that Province and the
others;--of which we shall have to take notice, and give at least
the dates as they occur.

To sweep out pettifogging Attorneys, cancel improper Advocates, to
regulate Fees; to war, in a calm but deadly manner, against
pedantries, circumlocutions and the multiplied forms of stupidity,
cupidity and human owlery in this department;--and, on the whole,
to realize from every Court, now and onwards, "A decision to all
Lawsuits within a Year after their beginning." This latter result,
Friedrich thinks, will itself be highly beneficial; and be the sign
of all manner of improvements. And Cocceji, scanning it with those
potent law-eyes of his, ventures to assure him that it will be
possible. As, in fact, it proved;--honor to Cocceji and his King,
and King's Father withal. "Samuel von Cocceji [says an old Note],
son of a Law Professor, and himself once such,--was picked up by
Friedrich Wilhelm, for the Official career, many years ago. A man
of wholesome, by no means weakly aspect,--to judge by his Portrait,
which is the chief 'Biography' I have of him. Potent eyes and
eyebrows, ditto blunt nose; honest, almost careless lips, and deep
chin well dewlapped: extensive penetrative face, not pincered
together, but potently fallen closed;--comfortable to see, in a wig
of such magnitude. Friedrich, a judge of men, calls him 'a man of
sterling character (CARACTERE INTEGRE ET DROIT), whose qualities