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Updated: June 20, 2025
A little note which King Philip found between his napkin one day, upon which was this address: "To Philip IV., once King of Spain, and Master of both the Indies, but now in the service of Count Lerma!" This it was that caused the count's ruin; Philip was enraged by this note, and the powerful favorite fell into disgrace. Count Bruhl knew this history, and was on his guard.
This story was received with a glee only equalled by the gusto with which it was related. The last expression, “kripple-gespiel,” was peculiarly his own. Before leaving Vienna, about a month after my release, I had determined to see the Brühl, a wild, wooded, and mountainous district, at a short distance from the city.
The king cried out angrily, 'Have a care, sir! But Bruhl only heeded this so far as to thrust aside those who stood round him and push his way hurriedly through the circle. 'Arnidieu! cried the king, when he was gone. 'This is fine conduct! I have half a mind to send after him and have him put where his hot blood would cool a little. Or He stopped abruptly, his eyes resting on me.
'And if your Majesty pleases, Retz added, 'M. de Bruhl also, If you really intend, sire, that is, to reopen a matter which I thought had been settled. The king nodded obstinately, his face furrowed with ill-temper. He kept his shifty eyes, which seldom met those of the person he addressed, on the floor; and this accentuated the awkward stooping carriage which was natural to him.
But I have become indifferent to all this as to many other matters since I have seen Folly crowned king of the earth. To-day there is no such country as Poland, but it might still be in existence if it had not been for the ambition of the Czartoryski family, whose pride had been humiliated by Count Bruhl, the prime minister. To gain vengeance Prince Augustus Czartoryski ruined his country.
To this Count Bruhl answered in such terms as I could wish, and I must do him the justice to say that he showed the best disposition to serve His Majesty in the affair in question; but I am yet of opinion that, whatever is done effectually in this case, must be done by the Court of Petersburg, and I would humbly advise that, as soon as it is known for certain that the Pretender's son is in Poland, His Majesty should order his minister at the Court of Petersburg to take such steps as His Majesty's great wisdom shall judge most likely to make the Czarina act with a proper vigour upon this occasion.
If once, why not twice? why not three times? I had not gone down half a dozen steps before I heard a man enter the staircase from the street, and begin to ascend. It struck me at once that this might be M. de Bruhl; and I realised that I had not left madame's apartment a moment too soon.
And taking his wife's hand, he passed out of the study. As the Count Bruhl and his wife entered the saloon, it almost seemed as if they were the royal couple for whom all this company was waiting. Every one of any rank or position in Dresden was present.
Nevertheless the reader is to note well this Treaty of Warsaw, as important to Friedrich and him; and indeed it is perhaps the remarkablest Treaty, abortional or realized, which got to parchment in that Century. And did succeed in getting Saxony's back broken, if not the bad Neighbor's, in answer to the humor of little Bruhl; unfortunate Saxony to possess such a Bruhl!
Polish Majesty is here, and certain of the warlike Bastard Brothers home from Winter-quarters, Comte de Saxe for one; Valori also, punctually as due; and little Graf von Bruhl, highest-dressed of human creatures, who is factotum in this Court. "Your Polish Majesty, by treaty and title you are King of Moravia withal: now is the time, now or never, to become so in fact!
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