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"never marry him, would throw myself at the feet" -- And so
on, as young ladies of vivacious temper, in extreme circum-
stances, are wont: -- did speak, however, next day, to my
Hanover gentleman about his Duke, a little, though in an em-
barrassed manner. Alas, I am yet but fourteen, gone the 3d
of July last: tremulous as aspen-leaves; or say, as sheet-
lightning bottled in one of the thinnest human skins; and have
no experience of foolish Dukes and affairs! --
1'Meanwhile," continues Wilhelmina, '' the King of Eng-
land's time of arrival was drawing nigh. We repaired, on
"the 6th of October, to Charlottenburg to receive him. The
"heart of me kept beating, and I was in cruel agitations.
"King George" (my Grandfather and Grand Uncle) "arrived
"on the 8th, about seven in the evening;" -- dusky shades
already sinking over Nature everywhere, and all paths
growing dim. Abundant flunkeys, of course, rush-out with
torches or what is needful. "The King of Prussia, the Queen
"and all their Suite received him in the Court of the Palace,
? 'the 'Apartments'being on the ground-floor. So soon as he
"had saluted the King and Queen, I was presented to him.
"He embraced me; and turning to the Queen said to her,
"' Your daughter is very big of her age! ' He gave the Queen
"his hand, and led her into her apartment, whither everybody
"followed them. As soon as I came in,, he took a light from
"the table, and surveyed me from head to foot. I stood mo-
"tionless as a statue, and was much put out of countenance.
"All this went on without his uttering the least word. Having
"thus passed me in review, he addressed himself to my Bro-
"ther, whom he caressed much, and amused himself with, for
"a good while. " Pretty little Grandson this, your Majesty;
-- any future of history in this one, think you? "I," says
Wilhelmina, "took the opportunity of slipping-out;" --
hopeful to get away; but could not, the Queen having noticed,
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"The Queen made me a sign to follow her; and passed
"into a neighbouring apartment, where she had the English
"and Germans of King George's Suite successively presented
"to her. After some talk with these gentlemen, she withdrew;
"leaving me to entertain them, and saying: 'Speak English
"'to my Daughter; you will find she speaks it very well. '
"I felt much less embarrassed, once the Queen was gone; and
"picking-up a little courage, I entered into conversation with
"these English. As I spoke their language like my mother-
"tongue, I got pretty well out of the affair, and everybody
"seemed charmed with me. They made my eulogy to the
"Queen; told her Ihad quite the English air, and was made
"to be their Sovereign one day. It was saying a great deal
"on their part: for these English think themselves so much
"above all other people, that they imagine they are paying a
"high compliment when they tell any one he has got English
"manners.
"Their King" (my Grandpapa) "had got Spanish man-
"ners, I should say: he was of an extreme gravity, and hardly
"spoke a word to anybody. He saluted Madam Sonsfeld"
(my invaluable thrice-dear Governess) "very coldly; and
"asked her, 'If I was always so serious, and if my humour
"'was of the melancholy turn? ' 'Anything but that, Sire,'
"answered the other: 'but the respect she has for your
"'Majesty prevents her from being as sprightly as shecora-
"'monly is. ' He wagged his head, and answered nothing.
"The reception he had given me, and this question, of which
"I heard, gave me such a chill, that I never had the courage
"to speak to him," -- was merely looked-at with a candle by
Grandpapa.
"We were summoned to supper at last, where this grave
"Sovereign still remained dumb. Perhaps he was right, per-
"haps he was wrong; but I think he followed the proverb,
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"which says, Better hold your tongue than speak badly. At
"the end of the repast he felt indisposed. The Queen would
"have persuaded him to quit table; they bandied compliments
"a good while on the point; but at last she threw-down her
'' napkin, and rose. The King of England naturally rose too;
"but began to stagger; the King of Prussia ran up to help
"him, all the company ran bustling about him; but it was to
"no purpose: he sank on his knees; his peruke falling on one
"side, and his hat" (or at least his head, Madam! ) "on the
"other. They stretched him softly on the floor; where he
"remained a good hour without consciousness. The pains
"they took with him brought back his senses, by degrees, at
"last. The Queen and the King (of Prussia) were in despair
"all this while. Many have thought this attack was a herald
''of the stroke of apoplexy which came by and by," -- within
four years from this date, and carried-off his Majesty in a very
gloomy manner.
"They passionately entreated him to retire now," con-
tinues Wilhelmina; "but he would not by any means. He
"led-out the Queen, and did the other ceremonies, according
"to rule; had a very bad night, as we learned underhand;" --
but persisted stoically nevertheless, being a crowned Majesty,
and bound to it. He stoically underwent four or three other
days, of festival, sight-seeing, "pleasure" so-called;--among
other sights, saw little Fritz drilling his Cadets at Berlin; --
and on the fourth day (12th October 1723, so thinks
Wilhelmina) fairly "signed the Treaty of the Double-Mar-
"riage," English Townshend and the Prussian Ministry
"having settled all things. "*
? Wilhelmina, Mmoiret Je Bareith, I. 88, 87. -- In Coxe (Memoirs of
Sir Robert Walpole, London, 1798), ii. 266,172, 278, are some faint hint*,
from Townshend, of this Berlin journey.
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"Signed the Treaty," thinks Wilhemina, "all things
heing settled. " Which is an error on the part of Wilhel-
mina. Settled, many or all things were, by Townshend
and the others: but before signing, there was Parlia-
ment to be apprised, there were formalities, expendi-
ture of time; between the cup and the lip, such things
to intervene; -- and the sad fact is, the Double-Mar-
riage Treaty never was signed at all! -- However, all
things being now settled ready for signing, his Britannic
Majesty, next morning, set-off for the Gdhrde again, to
try if there were any hunting possible.
This authentic glimpse, one of the few that are
attainable, of their first Constitutional King, let English
readers make the most of. The act done proved dread-
fully momentous to our little Friend, his Grandson;
and will much concern us!
Thus, at any rate, was the Treaty of the Double-
Marriage settled, to the point of signing, . -- thought
to be as good as signed. It was at the time when Czar
Peter was making armaments to burn Sweden; when
Wood's Halfpence (on behalf of her Improper Grace
of Kendal, the lean Quasi-Wife, "Maypole" or Hop-
pole, who had run short of money, as she often did)
were about beginning to jingle in Ireland;* when
Law's Bubble "System" had fallen, well flaccid, into
Chaos again; when Dubois the unutterable Cardinal
had at length died, and d'Orhians the unutterable Re-
? Coxe (1. 216, 217, and supply the dates); Walpole to Townahend, 18th
October 1728 (lb. li. 276): "The Drapiev'i Letters" are of 1724,
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Oct. 1723.
gent was unexpectedly about to do so, -- in a most
surprising Sodom-and-Gomorrah manner. * Not to men-
tion other dull and vile phenomena of putrid fermenta-
tion, which were transpiring, or skittishly bubbling-up,
in poor benighted rotten Europe here or there; --since
these are sufficient to date the Transaction for us; and
what does not stick to our Fritz and his affairs it is
more pleasant to us to forget than to remember, of such
an epoch.
Hereby, for the present, is a great load rolled from
Queen Sophie Dorothee's heart. One, and that the
highest, of her abstruse negociations, cherished, la-
boured in, these fourteen years, she has brought to a
victorious issue, -- has she not? Her poor Mother,
once so radiant, now so dim and angry, shut in the
Castle of Ahlden, does not approve this Double-Mar-
riage; not she for her part; -- as indeed evil to all
Hanoverian interests is now chiefly her good, poor
Lady; and she is growing more and more of a Megaera
every day. With whom Sophie Dorothee has her own
difficulties and abstruse practices; but struggles always
to maintain, under sevenfold secrecy, some thread of
correspondence and pious filial ministration wherever
possible; that the poor exasperated Mother, wretched-
est and angriest of women, be not quite cut-off from
the kinship of the living, but that some soft breath
of pity may cool her burning heart now and then. **
? 2d December 1723: Barbler, Journal Ilistorique du Rigne de Louis XV.
(Paris, 1847), i. 192, 196; Lacreteile, Histoire de France, 18m<< slide; *c.
? ? In Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea (London, 1845), ii. 885, 393, are certain
fractions of this Correspondence, "edited" in an amazing manner.
Carlyle, Frederic the Great. II. 19
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8th-9th Nov. 1723.
A dark tragedy of Sophie's, this; the Bluebeard Cham-
ber of her mind, into which no eye but her own must
ever look.
Princess Amelia comes into the World.
In reference to Queen Sophie, and chronologically
if not otherwise connected with this Double-Marriage
Treaty, I will mention one other thing. Her Majesty
had been in fluctuating health, all summer; unaccount-
able symptoms turning-up in her Majesty's constitution,
languors, qualms, especially a tendency to swelling
or increase of size, which had puzzled and alarmed
her Doctors and her. Friedrich Wilhelm, on con-
clusion of the Marriage-Treaty, had been appointed
to join his Father-in-law, Britannic George, at the
Gohrde, in some three-weeks time, and have a bout of
hunting. On the 8th of November, bedtime being come,
he kissed his Wilhelmina and the rest, by way of good-
bye; intending to start very early on the morrow: --
long journey (150 miles or so), to be done all in one
day. In the dead of the night, Queen Sophie was
seized with dreadful colics, -- pangs of colic or who
knows what; -- Friedrich Wilhelm is summoned; rises
in the highest alarm; none but the maids and he at
hand to help; and the colic, or whatever it may be,
gets more and more dreadful.
Colic? O poor Sophie, it is travail, and no colic;
and a clever young Princess is suddenly the result!
None but Friedrich Wilhelm and the maid for mid-
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wives; mother and infant, nevertheless, doing perfectly
well. Friedrich Wilhelm did not go on the morrow, but
next day; laughed, ever and anon in loud hahas, at
the part he had been playing; and was very glad and
merry. How the experienced Sophie, whose twelfth
child this is, came to commit such an oversight, is un-
accountable; but the fact is certain, and made a merry
noise in the Court circles. *
The clever little Princess, now born in this man-
ner, is known by name to idle readers. She was
christened Amelia; and we shall hear of her in time
coming. But there was, as the Circulating Libraries
still intimate, a certain loud-spoken braggart of the
histrionic-heroic sort, called Baron Trenck, windy,
rash, and not without mendacity, who has endeavoured
to associtate her with his own transcendent and not
undeserved ill-luck; hinting the poor Princess into a
sad fame in that way. For which, it would now appear,
there was no basis whatever! Most condemnable Trenck;
-- whom, however, Robespierre guillotined finally, and
so settled that account and others.
Of Sophie Dorothee's twelve children, including
this Amelia, there are now eight living, two boys,
six girls/, and after Amelia, two others, boys, are
successively to come: ten in all, who grew to bo
men and women. Of whom perhaps I had better
subjoin a List; now that the eldest Boy and Girl are about
to get settled in life; and therewith close this Chapter.
? PBlInltz, Ii. 199; Wilhelmina, i. 87. 88.
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1728-1726.
Friedrich Wilhelm's Ten Children.
Marriage to Sophie Dorothee, 28th November 1706.
A little Prince, born 23d November 1707, died in six
months. Then came,
1? . Frederika Sophie Wilhelmina, ultimately Margravine
of Baireuth, after strange adventures in the marriage-treaty
way. Wrote her Memoires there, about 1744. Of whom we
shall hear much. Left a Daughter, her one child; Daughter
badly married, to "Karl reigning Duke of Wiirtemberg"
(Poet Schiller's famous Serene Highness there), from whom
she had to separate, &c. , with anger enough, by and by.
After Wilhelmina in the Family series came a second
Prince, who died in the eleventh month. Then, 24th January
1712,
2? . Friedrich.
After whom (1713) a little Princess, who died in few
months. And then,
3? . Frederika Louisa, born 28th September 1714; age
now about nine.
Margravine of Anspach, 30th May 1729;
Widow 1757. Her one Son, born 1736, was the Lady-Craven's
Anspach. Frederika Louisa died 4th February 1784.
4*. Philippina Charlotte, born 13th March 1716; became
Duchess of Brunswick (her Husband was Eldest Brother of
the 'Prince Ferdinand' so famous in England in the Seven-
Years War); her Son was the Duke who invaded France in
1792, and was tragically hurled to ruin in the Battle of Jena,
1806. The Mother lived till 1801; Widow since 1780.
After whom, in 1717, again a little Prince, who died within
two years (our Fritz then seven, -- probably the first time
Death ever came before him, practically into his little
thoughts in this world): then,
5? . Sophie Dorothee Maria, born 25th January 1719;
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1723-1726.
Margravine of Schwedt, 1734 (eldest Markgraf of Schwedt,
mentioned above as a comrade of the Crown-Prince). Her
life not very happy; she died 1765. Left no son (Brother-in-
law succeeded, last of the Schwedt Margraves): her Daughter,
wedded to Prince Friedrich Eugen, a Prussian Officer, Cadet
of Wiirtemberg and ultimately Heir there, is Ancestress of
the Wiirtemberg Sovereignties that now are, and also (by one
of her daughters married to Paul of Russia) of all the Czar
kindred of our time. *
6? . Louisa Ulrique, born 24th July 1720; married Adolf
Friedrich, Heir-Apparent, subsequently King of Sweden,
17th July 1744; Queen (he having acceded) 6th April 1751;
Widow, 1781; Mother of the subsequent Kings; her Grandson
the Deposed. ** Died at Stockholm 16th July 1782.
7? . August Wilhelm, born 9th August 1722; Heir-Ap-
parent after Friedrich (so declared by Friedrich, 30th June
1744); Father of the Kings who have since followed. He himself
died, in sad circumstances, as we shall see, 12th June 1758.
8? . Anna Amelia, born 9th November 1723,--on the terms
we have seen.
9? . Friedrich Heinbich Ludwig , born 18th January 1726;
-- the famed Prince Henri, of whom we shall hear.
10? . August Ferdinand, born 23d May 1730: a brilliant
soldier under his Brother, full of spirit and talent, but liable to
weak health; -- was Father of the 'Prince Louis Ferdinand'
(a tragic Failure of something considerable, who went-off
in Liberalism, wit, in high sentiment, expenditure and de-
bauchery, greatly to the admiration of some persons; and at
length rushed desperate upon the French, and found his
quietus [10th October 1806], four days before the Battle of
Jena).
? Preuss, It. 278; Erman, Vie it Sophie Charlotte, p. 272.
? ? CErtel, p. 83; Hflbner, tt. 91, 227.
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CHAPTER H.
A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
Treaty of Double-Marriage is ready for signing,
once the needful Parliamentary preludings are gone
through; Treaty is signed, thinks Wilhelmina, -- for-
getting the distance between cup and lip! -- As to
signing, or even to burning, and giving-up the thought
of signing, alas, how far are we yet from that! Im-
perial spectre-huntings, and the politics of most Eu-
ropean Cabinets will connect themselves with that; and
send it wandering wide enough, -- lost in such a jungle
of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies do-
mestic and foreign, as the course of true-love never got
entangled-in before.
The whole of which extensive Cabinet operations,
covering square miles of paper at this moment, --
having nevertheless, after ten years of effort, ended in
absolute zero, -- were of no worth even to the mana-
gers of them; and are of less than none to any mortal
now or henceforth. So that the method of treating
them becomes a problem to History. To pitch them
utterly out of window, and out of memory, never to
be mentioned in human speech again: this is the mani-
fest prompting of Nature; -- and this, were not our
poor Crown-Prince and one or two others involved
in them, would be our ready and thrice-joyful course.
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1723-1726.
Surely the so-called "Politics of Europe" in that day
are a thing this Editor would otherwise, with his
whole soul, forget to all eternity! "Putrid fermenta-
tion," ending, after the endurance of much malodour,
in mere zero to you and to every one, even to the
rotting-bodies themselves: -- is there any wise Editor
that would connect himself with that? These are
the fields of History which are to be, so soon as hu-
manly possible, suppressed; which only Mephistophe-
les, or the Bad Genius of mankind, can contemplate
with pleasure.
Let us strive to touch lightly the chief summits,
here and there, of that intricate, most empty, mournful
Business, -- which was really once a Pact in practical
Europe, not the mere Nightmare of an Attorney's Dream;
-- and indicate, so far as indispensable, how the
young Priedrich, Friedrich's Sister, Father, Mother,
were tribulated, almost heartbroken and done to death,
by means of it.
Imperial Majesty on the Treaty of Utrecht.
Kaiser Karl VI. , head of the Holy Romish Empire
at this time, was a handsome man to look upon; whose
life, full of expense, vicissitude, futile labour and ad-
venture, did not prove of much use to the world.
Describable as a laborious futility rather. He was se-
cond son of that little Leopold, the solemn little Herr
in red stockings, who had such troubles, frights, and
runnings to-and-fro, with the sieging Turks, liberative
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Sobieskis, acquisitive Louis Fourteenths; and who at
length ended in a sea of futile labour, which they call
the Spanish-Succession War.
This Karl, second son, had been appointed "King
of Spain" in that futile business; and with much sub-
limity, though internally in an impoverished condi-
tion, he proceeded towards Spain, -- landing in Eng-
land to get cash for the outfit; -- arrived in Spain;
and roved-about there as Titular King for some years,
with the fighting Peterboroughs, Galways, Stahrem-
bergs; but did no good there, neither he nor his Peter-
boroughs. At length, his Brother Joseph, Father Leo-
pold's successor, having died,* Karl came home from
Spain to be Kaiser. At which point, Karl would have
been wise to give-up his Titular Kingship in Spain;
for he never got, nor will get, anything but futile
labour from hanging to it. He did hang to it never-
theless; and still, at this date of George's visit and long
afterwards, hangs, -- with notable obstinacy. To the
woe of men and nations: punishment doubtless of his
sins and theirs! --
Kaiser Karl shrieked mere amazement and indigna-
tion, when the English tired of fighting for him and it.
When the English said to their great Marlborough:
"Enough, you sorry Marlborough! You have beaten
Louis XIV. to the suppleness of washleather, at our
bidding; that is true, and that may have had its diffi-
culties: but, after all, we prefer to have the thing pre-
cisely as it would have been without any fighting,
? J7th April U>>,
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1723-1726.
You, therefore, what is the good of you? You are a--
person whom we fling-out like sweepings, now that our
eyesight returns, and accuse of common stealing. Go
and be--! " --
Nothing ever had so disgusted and astonished Kai-
ser Karl as this treatment, -- not of Marlborough,
whom he regarded only as he would have done a pair
of military boots or a holster-pistol of superior ex-
cellence, for the uses that were in him, -- but of the
Kaiser Karl his own sublime self, the heart and focus
of Political Nature; left in this manner, now when the
sordid English and Dutch declined spending blood and
money for him farther. "Ungrateful, sordid, incon-
ceivable souls," answered Karl, "was there ever, since
the early Christian times, such a martyr as you have
now made of me! " So answered Karl, in diplomatic
groans and shrieks, to all ends of Europe. But the
sulky English and Allies, thoroughly tired of paying
and bleeding, did not heed him; made their Peace
of Utrecht* with Louis XIV. , who was now beaten
supple; and Karl, after a year of indignant protests,
and futile attempts to fight Louis on his own score,
was obliged to do the like. He has lost the Spanish
crown; but still holds by the shadow of it; will not
quit that, if he can help it. He hunts much, digests
well; is a sublime Kaiser though internally rather
poor, carrying his head high; and seems to himself, on
some sides of his life, a martyred much-enduring man.
? Peace of Utrecht, 11th April 1713; Peace of Rastadt (following npon
(he Preliminaries of Baden), 6th March 1714,
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Imperial Majesty has got happily wedded.
Kaiser Karl, soon after the time of going to Spain,
Lad decided that a Wife would be necessary. He
applied to Caroline of Anspach, now English Princess
of Wales, but at that time an orphaned Brandenburg-
Anspach Princess, very beautiful, graceful, gifted, and
altogether unprovided-for; living at Berlin, under the
guardianship of Friedrich the first King. Her young
Mother had married again, -- high enough match (to
Kur-Sachsen, elder Brother of August the Strong, Au-
gust at that time without prospects of the Electorate);
-- but it lasted short while: Caroline's Mother and
Saxon Stepfather were both now, long since, dead.
So she lived at Berlin, brilliant though unportioned;
-- with the rough cub Friedrich Wilhelm much follow-
ing her about, and passionately loyal to her, as the
Beast was to Beauty; whom she did not mind, except
as a cub loyal to her; being five years older than
he. * Indigent bright Caroline, a young lady of fine
aquiline features and spirit, was applied-for to be
Queen of Spain; wooer a handsome man, who might
even be Kaiser by and by. Indigent bright Caro-
line at once answered, No. She was never very
orthodox in Protestant theology; but could not think
of taking-up Papistry for lucre's and ambition's sake:
be that always remembered on Caroline's behalf.
The Spanish Majesty next applied at Brunswick
? Fiirster, i. 107.
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1723-1720.
Wolfenbiittel; no lack of Princesses there: Princess
Elizabeth, for instance; Protestant she too, but perhaps
not so squeamish? Old Anton Ulrich, whom some
readers know for the idle Books, longwinded Novels
chiefly, which he wrote, was the Grandfather of this
favoured Princess; a goodnatured old gentleman, of the
idle ornamental species, in whose head most things, it
is likely, were reduced to vocables, scribble and sen-
timentality; and only a steady internal gravitation
towards praise and pudding was traceable as very real
in him. Anton Ulrich, affronted more or less by the
immense advancement of Gentleman Ernst and the
Hanoverian or Younger Brunswick Line, was extremely
glad of the Imperial offer; and persuaded his timid
Granddaughter, ambitious too, but rather conscience-
stricken, That the change from Protestant to Catholic,
the essentials being so perfectly identical in both, was
a mere trifle; that he himself, old as he was, would
readily change along with her, so easy was it. Where-
upon the young Lady made the big leap; abjured her
religion;* -- went to Spain as Queen (with sad injury
to her complexion, but otherwise successfully more or
less); -- and sits now as Empress beside her Karl VI. ,
in a grand enough, probably rather dull, but not sin-
gularly unhappy manner.
She, a Brunswick Princess, with Nephews and
Nieces who may concern us, is Kaiserinn to Kaiser
Karl: for aught I know of her, a kindly simple Wife,
and unexceptionable Sovereign Majesty, of the sort
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1723-1726.
wanted; -- whom let us remember, if we meet her
again one day. I add only of this poor Lady, distin-
guished to me by a Daughter she had, that her mind
still had some misgivings about the big leap she had
made in the Protestant-Papist way. Finding Anton
Ulrich still continue Protestant, she wrote to him out
of Spain: -- "Why, O honoured Grandpapa, have you
not done as you promised? Ah, there must be a taint
of mortal sin in it, after all! " Upon which the ab-
surdly situated old Gentleman did change his religion;
and is marked as a Convert in all manner of Genea-
logies and Histories; -- truly an old literary gentleman
ducal and serene, restored to the bosom of the Church
in a somewhat peculiarly ridiculous manner. * -- But
to return.
Imperial Majesty and the Termagant of Spain.
Ever after the Peace of Utrecht, when England
and Holland declined to bleed for him farther, espe-
cially ever since his own Peace of Rastadt made with
Louis the year after, Kaiser Karl had utterly lost hold
of the Crown of Spain; and had not the least chance
to clutch that bright substance again. But he held by
the shadow of it, with a deadly Hapsburg tenacity;
refused for twenty years, under all pressures, to part
with the shadow: "The Spanish Hapsburg Branch is
dead; whereupon do not I, of the Austrian Branch, sole
* MUbaelU, 1. 181,
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1723-1726.