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Far and wide, robbery and arson are prevalent in Poland; Stanislaus lying under covert; in Dantzig, an imaginary King ever since the equinox, but well trusting that the French will give him a plumper vote. French War-fleet is surely under way hither. These are the news our Crown-Prince hears at Ruppin, in the first months of his wedded life there. With what interest we may fancy.
Once I had learned a German Proverb If I could get any money to borrow, it would do; but I need not think of that. Help me, then, dear Hacke! "RUPPIN, 17th July, 1732. "MY VERY DEAR GENERAL, I have written to the King, that I owed you 2,125 THALERS for the Recruits; of which he says there are 600 paid: there remain, therefore, 1,525, which he will pay you directly.
Here are no fewer than three such Persons, or Parsons, of the Ruppin Country, who got mischief by him.
His uniform is of the Goltz Regiment, Infantry: Goltz Regiment, which lies at Ruppin, at and about, in that moory Country to the Northeast, some thirty or forty miles from Berlin; whither his destination now is.
But it is good to conciliate in that quarter, by every method, and at every expense; Argus of Tobacco-Parliament still watching one there; and Rumor needing to be industriously dealt with, difficult to keep down. Such, so far as we can gather, is the general figure of Friedrich's life at Ruppin. For all his gravity and Colonelship, it would appear the old spirit of frolic has not quitted him.
There is, of course, a Chaplain in the Establishment: a Reverend "M. Deschamps;" who preaches to them all, in French no doubt. Friedrich never hears Deschamps: Friedrich is always over at Ruppin on Sundays; and there "himself reads a sermon to the Garrison," as part of the day's duties.
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