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Updated: May 13, 2025
I waste myself in gloomy ideas; I fear I shall not be able to hide my grief, on coming to Berlin. This is the sad state I am in; but it will never make me change from being," surely to an excessive degree, the illustrious Grumkow's most &c. &c. Mon Dieu, has he not already seen what an ill-assorted marriage comes to, my Sister of Anspach and her Husband, who hate one another like the fire!
Poor soul, much of his late raging and growling, perhaps it was only Grumkow's and not his! Does not hate us, he, perhaps; but only Grumkow through him? This doleful enchantment, and that the Royal Wild Bear dances only to tunes, ought to be held in mind, when we want anything with him.
Can we hope, a select specimen or two of these Documents, not on Grumkow's part, or for Grumkow's unlovely sake, may now be acceptable to the reader? A Letter or two picked from that large stock, in a legible state, will show us Father and Son, and how that tragic matter went on, better than description could.
Judge Grumkow's feelings soon after, on this furious recalcitration breaking out!
What were Grumkow's news at home-coming, I did not hear; but he continues very low and shaky; refuses, almost with horror, to have the least hand in Seckendorf's mad project, of resuscitating the English Double-Marriage, and breaking off the Brunswick one, at the eleventh hour and after word pledged.
"When the Duke of Lorraine comes, I will have thee come. I think thy Bride will be here then. Grumkow's Letters to the Crown-Prince in this important interval are not extant, nor if they were could we stand them: from the Prince's Answers it will be sufficiently apparent what the tenor of them was. Utterance first is about a week after that of the estafette at midnight:
It is the chief feature in the Two or Three Thousand LETTERS we yet have of Friedrich's to all manner of correspondents: Letters written with the gracefulest flowing rapidity; polite, affable, refusing to give you the least glimpse into his real inner man, or tell you any particular you might impertinently wish to know. Here is shred first; a Piece in Grumkow's hand.
Let him stand by his budgets; keep well out of Wilhelmina's and the Queen's way; and very especially beware of coming on Grumkow's field again.
At all events, it is a pretty topic in Queen Caroline's apartment on an evening; and the little Majesty and she, with various laughters and reflections, can discern, a little, How a poor King of Prussia is befooled by his servants, and in what way a fierce Bear is led about by the nose, and dances to Grumkow's piping.
"It is not said that Friedrich Wilhelm had the least intention of countenancing August in these dangerous operations, still less of going shares with August; but he wished much, through Grumkow, to have some glimpse into the dim program of them; and August wished much to know Friedrich Wilhelm's and Grumkow's humor towards them.
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