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Fine Palaces, if Wusterhausen be a sorry one, are
not wanting to our young Friend: whatsoever it is in
the power of architecture and upholstery to do for him,
may be considered, withal, as done. Wusterhausen is
but a Hunting-lodge for some few Autumn weeks: the
Berlin Palace and the Potsdam, grand buildings both,
few Palaces in the world surpass them; and there, in
one or the other of these, is our usual residence. --
Little Fritz, besides his young Finkensteins and others
of the like, has Cousins, children of his Grandfather's
Half-brothers, who are comrades of his. For the Great
Elector, as we saw, was twice wedded, and had a
second set of sons and daughters: two of the sons had
children; certain of these are about the Crown-Prince's
own age, "Cousins" of his (strictly speaking, Half-
cousins of his Father's), who are much about him in
his young days, -- and more or less afterwards, accord-
ing to the worth they proved to have. Margraves and
Margravines of Schwedt, -- there are five or six of
such young Cousins. Not to mention the eldest, Fried-
rich Wilhelm by name, who is now come to manhood
(born, 1700); -- who wished much in after-years to
have had Wilhelmina to wife; but had to put-up with
a younger Princess of the House, aud ought to have
been thankful. This one has a younger Brother, Hein-
rich, slightly Fritz's senior, and much his comrade at
one time; of whom we shall transiently hear again. Of
these two the Old Dessauer is Uncle: if both his
Majesty and the Crown-Prince should die, one of these
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? 224 friedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [book Iv.
'1713-1723.
would be king. A circumstance which Wilhelmina and
the Queen have laid well to heart, and build many
wild suspicions upon, in these years! As that the Old
Dessauer, with his gunpowder face, has a plot one day
to assassinate his Majesty, -- plot evident as sunlight
to Wilhelmina and Mamma, which providentially came
to nothing; -- and other spectral notions of theirs. *
The Father of these two Margraves (elder of the two
Half-brothers that have children) died in the time of
old King Friedrich, eight or nine years ago. Their
Mother, the scheming old Margravine, whom I always
fancy to dress in high colours, is still living, -- as Wil-
helmina well knows!
Then, by another, the younger of those old Half-
brothers, there is a Karl, a second Friedrich Wilhelm,
Cousin-Margraves: plenty of Cousins; -- and two young
Margravines among them,** the youngest about Fritz's
own age. *** No want of Cousins; the Crown-Prince
? Wilhelmina, i. SB, 41.
? ? Michaelis, i. 425. ? ? ? Note of the Cousin Margraves. -- Great Elector, by his Second Wife,
had Five Sous, Two of whom left Children; -- as follows (so far as they
concern us, -- the others omitted) t
1? . Son Philip's Children (Mother the Old-Dessauer's Sister) are:
Friedrich Wilhelm (1700), who wished much, but in vain, to marry Wil-
helmina. Heinrich Friedrich (1709), a comrade of Fritz's in youth; some-
times getting into scrapes; -- misbehaved, some way, at the Battle of
Molwitz (first of Friedrich's Battles), 1741, and was inexorably cut by the
new King, and continued under a cloud thenceforth. -- This Philip ("Philip
Wilhelm") died 1711, his forty-third year; Widow long survived him.
2? . Son Albert's Children (Mother a Courland Princess) are: Karl
(1705); lived near CUstrin; became a famed captain, in the Silesian Wars,
under his Cousin. Friedrich (1701); fell at Molwitz, 1741. Friedrich
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? CHAP. IX. ]
225
WT7STERHAUSEN.
1713-1723.
seeing much of them all; and learning pleasantly their
various qualities, which were good in most, in some not
so good, and did not turn-out supreme in any case.
But, for the rest, Sister Wilhelmina is his grand con-
federate and companion; true in sport and in earnest,
in joy and in sorrow. Their truthful love to one an-
other, now and till death, is probably the brightest ele-
ment their life yielded to either of them.
What might be the date of Fritz's first appearance
in the Roucoulles "Soiree held on Wednesdays," in
the Finkenstein or any other Soiree, as an independ-
ent figure, I do not know. But at the proper time,
he does appear there, and with distinction not extrin-
sic alone; -- talks delightfully in such places; can dis-
cuss, even with French Divines, in a charmingly inge-
nious manner. Another of his elderly consorts I must
mention: Colonel Camas, a highly cultivated French-
man (French altogether by parentage and breeding,
though born on Prussian land), who was Tutor, at one
time, to some of those young Margraves. He has lost
an arm, -- left it in those Italian Campaigns, under
Anhalt-Dessau and Eugene; -- but by the aid of a
cork substitute, dextrously managed, almost hides the
want. A gallant soldier, fit for the diplomacies too; a
man of fine high ways. * And then his Wife -- In
Wilhelm (a Margiaf Friedrlch Wilhelm "No. 2," -- namesake of his now
Majesty, it is like; born 1714; killed at Prag, by a cannon-shot (at Ring
Friedrlch's hand, reconnoitring the place), 1744. -- This Albert ("Albert
Friedrich") died suddenly 1731, age fifty-nine.
? Militair-Lexikon, i. 308.
Carlyle, Frederic the Great. 11. 15
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? 226 friedrich's apprenticeship, first stage. [BooKrr.
17J8-1728.
fact, the Camas House, we perceive, had from an early
time been one of the Crown-Prince's haunts. Madam
Camas is a German Lady; but for genial elegance,
for wit and wisdom and goodness, could not readily be
paralleled in France or elsewhere. Of both these
Camases there will be honourable and important men-
tion by and by; especially of the Lady, whom he con-
tinues to call "Mamma" for fifty years to come, and
corresponds with in a very beautiful and human
fashion.
Under these auspices, in such environment, dimly
visible to us, at Wusterhausen and elsewhere, is the
remarkablest little Crown-Prince of his Century grow-
ing up, -- prosperously as yet
.
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? CHAP. x. ] THE HeIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 227
1719.
CHAPTER X.
THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
Friedrich Wilhelm holds Tabagie nightly; but at
Wusterhausen or wherever he may be, there is no lack
of intricate Official Labour, which, even in the Tabagie,
Friedrich Wilhelm does not forget. At the time he
was concocting those Instructions for his little Prince's
Schoolmasters, and smoking meditative under the stars,
with Magdeburg "Ritter-Dienst'" and much else of his
own to think of, -- there is an extraneous Political
Intricacy, making noise enough in the world, much in
his thoughts withal, and no doubt occasionally mur-
mured-of amid the tobacco-clouds. The Business of the
Heidelberg Protestants; which is just coming to a
height in those Autumn months of 1719.
Indeed this Year 1719 was a particularly noisy one
for him. This is the year of the "nephritic cholic,"
which befell at Brandenburg on some journey of his
Majesty's; with alarm of immediate death; Queen
Sophie sent-for by express; testament made in her
favour; and intrigues, very black ones, Wilhelmina
thinks, following thereupon. * And the "Affair of
Clement," on which the old Books are so profuse, falls
likewise, the crisis of it falls, in 1719. Of Clement
the "Hungarian Nobleman," who was a mere Hunga-
? Memoires de Barcith i. 26-29.
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? 228 frtedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [book IV.
1713-1728.
rian Swindler, and Forger of Royal Letters; sowing
mere discords, black suspicions, between Friedrieh Wil-
helm and the neighbouring Courts, Imperial and Saxon:
"Tour Majesty to be snapt-up, some day, by hired
ruffians, and spirited-away, for behoof of those treache-
rous Courts:" so that Friedrieh Wilhelm fell into a
gloom of melancholy, and for long weeks "never slept
but with a pair of loaded pistols under his pillow:" --
of this Clement, an adroit Phenomenon of the kind,
and intensely agitating to Friedrich Wilhelm; -- whom
Friedrich Wilhelm had at last to lay hold-of, try, this
very year, and ultimately hang,* amid the rumour and
wonder of mankind: -- of him, noisy as he was, and
still filling many pages of the old Books, a hint shall
suffice, and we will say nothing further. But this of
the Heidelberg Protestants, though also rather an extinct
business, has still some claims on us. This, injustice
to the "inarticulate man of genius," and for other rea-
sons, we must endeavour to resuscitate a little.
Of Kur-Pfalz Karl Philip: How he got a Wife long
since, and did Feats in the World.
There reigns, in these years, at Heidelberg, as
Elector Palatine, a kind-tempered but abrupt and some-
? Had arrived in Berlin, "end of1717;" staid about a year, often pri-
vately in the King's company, poisoning the royal mind; withdrew to the
Hague, suspecting Berlin might soon grow dangerous;-- is wiled oat of
that Territory into the Prussian, and arrested, by one of Friedrich Wil-
helm's Colonels, "end of 1718;" lies in Spandau , getting tried, for seven-
teen months; hanged, with two Accomplices, 18th April 1720. (See, in
succession, Stenzel, ill. 298, 302; Fassmann, p. 321; FBrster, ii. 272, and
ill. 320-324. )
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? CHAP. x. J THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 229
1719.
what unreasonable old gentleman, now verging towards
sixty, Karl Philip by name; who has come athwart the
Berlin Court and its affairs more than once; and will
again do so, in a singularly disturbing way. From be-
fore Friedrich Wilhelm's birth, all through Friedrich
Wilhelm's life and farther, this Karl Philip is a stone-
of-stumbling there. His first feat in life was that of
running off with a Prussian Princess from Berlin; the
rumour of which was still at its height when Friedrich
Wilhelm, a fortnight after, came into the world,--the
gossips still talking of it, we may fancy, when Friedrich
Wilhelm was first swaddled. An unheard-of thing; the
manner of which was this.
Readers have perhaps forgotten, that old King
Friedrich I. once had a Brother; elder Brother, who
died, to the Father's great sorrow, and made way for
Friedrich as Crown-Prince. This Brother had been
married a short time; he left a Widow without children;
a beautiful Lithuanian Princess, born Badzivil, and of
great possessions in her own country: she, in her crapes
and closecap, remained an ornament to the new Berlin
Court for some time; -- not too long. The mourning-
year once out, a new marriage came on foot for the
brilliant Widow; the Bridegroom, a James Sobieski,
eldest Prince of the famous John, King Sobieski;
Prince with fair outlooks towards Polish Sovereignty,
and handy for those Lithuanian Possessions of hers:
altogether an eligible match.
This marriage was on foot, not quite completed;
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? 230 friedrich's apprenticeship, first staqe. [bookiv.
'1718-1723.
when Karl Philip, Cadet of the Pfalz, came to Berlin;
-- a rather idle young man, once in the clerical way;
now gone into the military, with secular outlooks, his
elder Brother, Heir-apparent of the Pfalz, "having no
children:" -- came to Berlin, in the course of visiting,
and roving about. The beautiful Widow-Princess
seemed very charming to Karl Philip; he wooed hard;
threw the Princess into great perplexity. She had
given her Yes to James Sobieski; inevitable wedding-
day was coming-on with James; and here was Karl
Philip wooing so: -- in brief, the result was, she gal-
loped-off with Karl Philip, on the eve of said wedding-
day; married Karl Philip (24th July 1688); and left
Prince James standing there, too much like Lot's Wife,
in the astonished Court of Berlin. * Judge if the Berlin
public talked, -- unintelligible to Friedrich Wilhelm,
then safe in swaddling-clothes.
King Sobieski, the Father, famed Deliverer of
Vienna, was in high dudgeon. But Karl Philip apo-
logised, to all lengths; made his peace at last, giving
a Sister of his own to be Wife to the injured James.
This was Karl Philip's first outbreak in life; and it
was not his only one. A man not ill-disposed, all
grant; but evidently of headlong turn, with a tendency
to leap fences in this world. He has since been sol-
diering about, in a loose way; governing Innspruck, fighting the Turks. But, lately, his elder Brother died
childless (year 1716); and left Mm Kurfurst of the
Pfalz. His fair Radzivil is dead long ago; she, and a
? Miohaelis, ii. 93.
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? CHAP. I. ] the HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 231
1719.
successor, or it may be two. Except one Daughter,
whom the fair Radzivil left him, he has no children;
and in these times, I think, lives with a third Wife, of
the left-hand kind.
His scarcity of progeny is not so indifferent to my
readers as they might suppose. This new Kur-Pfalz
(Elector-Palatine) Karl Philip is by genealogy -- who,
thinks the reader? Yi&lz-Neuburg by line; own Grand-
son of that Wolfgang Wilhelm, who got the slap on
the face, long since, on account of the Cleve-Jiilich matter! So it has come round. The Line of Simmern
died out, Winter-King's Grandson the last of that; and
then, as right was, the Line of Neuburg took the top
place, and became Kur-Pfalz. The first of these was
this Karl Philip's Father, son of the Beslapped; an old
man when he succeeded. Karl Philip is the third Kur-
Pfalz of the Neuburg Line; his childless elder Brother
(he who collected the Pictures at Dusseldorf, once
notable there) was second of the Neuburgs. They now,
we say, are Electors Palatine, Head of the House; --
and, we need not add, along with their Electorate and
Neuburg Country, possess the Cleve-Julich Moiety of
Heritage, about which there was such worrying in time
past. Nay the last Kur-Pfalz resided there, and col-
lected the "Dusseldorf Gallery," as we have just said;
though Karl Philip prefers Heidelberg hitherto.
To Friedrich Wilhelm the scarcity of progeny is a
thrice-interesting fact. For if this actual Neuburg should
leave no male heir, as is now humanly probable, --
the Line of Neuburg too is out; and then great things
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? 232 friedbich's apprenticeship, fikst stage, [book iv.
1713-1T23.
ought to follow for our Prussian House. Then, by the
last Bargain, made in 1666, with all solemnity, between the Great Elector, our Grandfather of famous
memory, and your serene Father the then Pfalz-Neu
burg, subsequently Kur-Pfalz, likewise of famous me-
mory, son of the Beslapped, -- the whole Heritage
falls to Prussia, no other Pfalz Branch having thence-
forth the least claim to it. Bargain was express; signed,
sealed, sanctioned, drawn-out on the due extent of
sheepskin, which can still be read. Bargain clear
enough: but will this Karl Philip incline to keep it?
That may one day be the interesting question. But
that is not the question of controversy at present: not
that, but another; for Karl Philip, it would seem, is to
be a frequent stone-of-stumbling to the Prussian House.
The present question is of a Protestant-Papist matter;
into which Friedrich Wilhelm has been drawn by his
public-spirit alone.
Karl Philip and his Heidelberg Protestants.
The Pfalz population was, from of old, Protestant-
Calvinist; the Electors-Palatine used to be distinguished
for their forwardness in that matter. So it still is with
the Pfalz population; but with the Electors, now that
the House of Simmern is out, and that of Neuburg in,
it is not so. The Neuburgs, ever since that slap on
the face, have continued Popish; a sore fact for this
Protestant population, when it got them for Sovereigns.
Karl Philip's Father, an old soldier at Vienna, and the
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? ? JHAP. x. 1 THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 233
171>>.
elder Brother, a collector of Pictures at Diisseldorf,
did not outwardly much molest the creed of their sub-
jects. Protestants, and the remnant of Catholics
(remnant naturally rather expanding now that the
Court shone on it), were allowed to live in peace, ac-
cording to the Treaty of Westphalia, or nearly so;
dividing the churches and church-revenues equitably
between them, as directed there. But now that Karl
Philip is come in, there is no mistaking his procedures.
He has come home to Heidelberg with a retinue of
Jesuits about him; to whom the poor old gentleman,
looking before and after on this troublous world, finds
it salutary to give ear.
His nibblings at Protestant rights, his contrivances
to slide Catholics into churches which were not theirs,
and the like foul-play in that matter, had been sorrow-
ful to see, for some time past. The Elector of Maintz,
Chief-Priest of Germany, is busy in the same bad di-
rection; he and others. Indeed, ever since the Peace
of Ryswick, where Louis XIV. surreptitiously intro-
duced a certain "Clause," which could never be got
rid-of again,* nibbling aggressions of this kind have
? "Clause of the Fourth Article" is the technical name of it. Fourth
Article stipulates that King Louis XIV. shall punctually restore all manner
of towns and places, in the Palatinate Ac. (much burnt, somewhat 6c-
jesuited too, in late Wars, by the said King, during his occupancy}: Clause
of Fourth Article (added to it, by a quirk, "at midnight," say the Books)
contains merely these words, '*Religione tamen Catholicd Romand, in locis
sic rettitutit, in statu quo nunc est remanente: Roman Catholic religion to
continue as it now is" (as we have made it to be) "in such towns and
places. " -- Which Clause gave rise to very great but ineffectual lamenting
and debating. (Schbli, Traites de Paix (Par. 1817), 1. 483-8; Buchholj;
Spittler, Geschichle Wurtemberas; $cj
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? 234 frtjedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [book Iv.
1718-1723
gone-on more and more. Always too sluggishly resisted
by the Corpus Evangelicorum, in the Diets or otherwise,
the "United Protestant Sovereigns" not being an active
"Body" there. And now more sluggishly than ever;
-- said Corpus having August Elector of Saxony, Ca-
tholic (Sham-Catholic) King of Poland, for its Official
Head; "August the Physically Strong," a man highly
unconcerned for matters Evangelical! So that the nib-
blings go-on worse and worse. An offence to all Pro-
testant Rulers who had any conscience; at length an
unbearable one to Friedrich "Wilhelm, who, alone of
them all, decided to intervene effectually, and say, at
whatever risk there might be, We will not stand it!
Karl Philip, after some nibblings, took-up the Hei-
delberg Catechism (which candidly calls the Mass "idola-
trous"), and ordered said Catechism, an Authorised
Book, to cease in his Dominions. Hessen-Cassel, a
Protestant neighbour, pleaded, remonstrated, Friedrich
Wilhelm glooming in the rear; but to no purpose. Our
old gentleman, his Priests being very diligent upon
him, decided next to get possession of the Heilige-Geist
Kirche (Church of the Holy Ghost, principal Place of
Worship at Heidelberg), and make it his principal Ca-
thedral Church there. By Treaty of Westphalia, or
peaceably otherwise, the Catholics are already in pos-
session of the Choir: but the whole Church would be
so much better. "Was it not Catholic once? " thought
Karl Philip to himself: "built by our noble Ancestor
Kaiser Rupert of the Pfalz, Rupert Klemm ('Pincers,'
so-named for his firmness of mind): -- why should
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? CHAP. x. ] THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 235
1719.
these Heretics have it? I will build them another! "
These thoughts, in 1719, the third year of Karl Phi-
lip's rule, had broken-out into open action (29th Au-
gust, 4th September the consummation of it);* and
precisely in the time when Friedrich Wilhelm was
penning that first Didactic Morsel which we read, grave
clouds from the Palatinate were beginning to over-
shadow the royal mind more or less.
For the poor Heidelberg Consistorium, as they
could not undertake to give-up their Church on request
of his Serenity, -- "How dare we, or can we? " an-
swered they, -- had been driven-out by compulsion
and stratagem. Partly strategic was the plan adopted,
to avoid violence; smith's picklocks being employed,
and also mason's crowbars: but the end was, On the
31st of August 1719, Consistorium and Congregation
found themselves fairly in the street, and the Heilige-
Geist Kirche clean gone from them. Screen of the Choir
is torn down; one big Catholic Edifice now; getting de-
corated into a Court Church, where Serene Highness
may feel his mind comfortable.
The poor Heidelbergers, thus thrown into the street,
made applications, lamentations; but with small pro-
spect of help: to whom apply with any sure prospect?
Remonstrances from Hessen-Cassel have proved un-
availing with his bigoted Serene Highness. Corpus
Evangelicorum, so presided-over as at present, what can
be had of such a Corpus? Long-winded lucubrations
at the utmost; real action, in such a matter, none.
? Mauvtllon, i. 340-346.
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? 236 fiuedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [bookiv.
1713-1723.
Or will the Kaiser, his Jesuits advising him, inter-
fere to do us justice? Kur-Maintz and the rest; --
it is everywhere one story. Everywhere unhappy Pro-
testantism getting bad usage, and ever worse; and no
Corpus Evangelicorum, or appointed Watchdog, doing
other than hang its ears, and look sorry for itself
and us! --
The Heidelbergers, however, had applied to Fried-
rich Wilhelm among others. Friedrich "Wilhelm, who
had long looked on these Anti-Protestant phenomena
with increasing anger, found now that this of the Hei-
delberg Catechism and Ileilige-Geist Kirche was enough
to make one's patience run-over. Your unruly Catholic
bull, plunging about, and goring men in that mad ab-
surd manner, it will behove that somebody take him
by the horns, or by the tail, and teach him manners.
Teach him, not by vocal precepts, it is likely, which
wovild avail nothing on such a brute, but by practical
cudgelling and scourging to the due pitch. Pacific
Friedrich Wilhelm perceived that he himself would
have to do that disagreeable feat: -- the growl of
him, on coming to such resolution, must have been
consolatory to these poor Heidelbergers, when they
applied! -- His plan is very simple, as the plans of
genius are; but a plan leading direct to the end de-
sired, and probably the only one that would have done
so, in the circumstances. Cudgel in hand, he takes
the Catholic bull, -- shall we say, by the horns? --
more properly perhaps by the tail; and teaches him
manners,
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? CHAP. x. ] the HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 237
Fi'iedrich Wilhelm's method -- proves remedial in
Heidelberg.
Friedrich Wilhelm's first step, of course, was to
remonstrate pacifically with his Serene Highness on the
Heidelberg-Church affair: from this he probably ex-
pected nothing; nor did he get anything. Getting no-
thing from this, and the countenance of external Pro-
testant Powers, especially of George I. and the Dutch,
being promised him in ulterior measures, he directed
his Administrative Officials in Magdeburg, in Minden,
in Hamersleben, where are Catholic Foundations of
importance, to assemble the Catholic Canons, Abbots,
chief Priests and all whom it might concern in these
three Places, and to signify to them as follows:
"From us, your Protestant Sovereign, you your-
selves and all men will witness, you have hitherto had
the best of usage, fair-play, according to the Laws of
the Reich, and even more. With the Protestants at
Heidelberg, on the part of the Catholic Powers, it is
different. It must cease to be different; it must be-
come the same. And to make it do so, you are the
implement I have. Sorry for it, but there is no other
handy. From this day your Churches also are closed,
yourPublic Worship ceases, and furthermore your Ee-
venues cease; and all makes dead halt, and falls torpid
in respect of you. From this day; and so continues,
till the day (may it be soon! ) when the Heidelberg
Church of the Holy Ghost is opened again, and right
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? 238 friedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [book Iv.
J713-172*
done in that question. Be it yours to speed such day:
it is you that can and will, you who know those high
Catholic regions, inaccessible to your Protestant So-
vereign. Till then you are as dead men; temporarily
fallen dead for a purpose. And herewith God have
you in his keeping! "*
That was Friedrich Wilhelm's plan; the simplest,
but probably the one effectual plan. Infallible this
plan, if you dare stand upon it; which Friedrich
Wilhelm does. He has a formidable Army, ready
for fight; a Treasury or Army-Chest in good order.
George I. seconds, according to bargain; shuts the Catholic
Church at Zelle in his Liineburg Country, in like
fashion; Dutch, too, and Swiss will endorse the matter,
should it grow too serious. All which, involving some
diplomacy and correspondence, is managed with the
due promptitude, moreover. ** And so certain doors are
locked; and Friedrich Wilhelm's word, unalterable as
gravitation, has gone forth. In this manner is the mad
Catholic bull taken by the tail: keep fast hold, and
apply your cudgel duly in that attitude, he will not
gore you any more!
The Magdeburg-Hamersleben people shrieked pite-
ously; not to Friedrich Wilhelm, whom they knew to
be deaf on that side of his head, but to the Kaiser, to
the Pope, to the Serenity of Heidelberg. Serene High-
? Mautlllon, i. 347, 349.
? ? Charch of Zelle shut-up, 4th November; Minden, 28th November;
Monastery of Hamersleben, 3d December, &c. (PUtter: Historische Ent-
viekelwig der heutigen Staatsverfauimg det Teuttchm Reichs, GBttingen,
1788, il. 384, 890. )
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? CHAP. X. ] THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS. 239
1719.
ness of Heidelberg was much huffed; Kaiser dread-
fully so, and wrote heavy menacing rebukes. To
which Friedrich Wilhelm listened with a minimum of
reply; -- keeping firm hold of the tail, in such bellow-
ing of the animal. The end was, Serene Highness
had to comply; within three months, Kaiser, Serene
Highness and the other parties interested, found that
there would be nothing for it but to compose them-
selves: and do what was just. April 16th, 1720, the
Protestants are reinstated in their Heilige-Geist Kirche;
Heidelberg Catechism goes its free course again, May
16th; and one Baron Eeck* is appointed Commis-
sioner, from the Corpus Evangelicorum, to Heidelberg;
who continues rigorously inspecting Church matters
there for a considerable time, much to the grief of
Highness and Jesuits, till he can report that all is as
it should be on that head. Karl Philip felt so dis-
gusted with these results, he removed his Court,
that same year, to Mannheim; quitted Heidelberg;
to the discouragement and visible decay of the place;
and, in spite of humble petitions and remonstrances,
never would return; neither he nor those that followed
him would shift from Mannheim again, to this day.
Prussian Majesty has displeased the Kaiser and the
King of Poland.
Friedrich Wilhelm's praises from the Protestant
public were great, on this occasion. Nor can we, who
? Michaelin, ii. 95; PUtter, 11. 384 , 390; Buohholz, p. 61-63
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? 240 friedrich's apprenticeship, first stage, [book Iv.
1713-1723.
lie much farther from it in every sense, refuse him
some grin of approval. Act, and manner of doing the
act, are creditably of a piece with Friedrich Wilhelm;
physiognomic of the rugged veracious man. It is one of
several such acts done by him: for it was a duty apt
to recur in Germany, in his day. This duty Fried-
rich Wilhelm, a solid Protestant after his sort, and
convinced of the "nothingness and nonsensicality (Un-
grund und Absurditai) of Papistry," was always honour-
ably prompt to do. There is an honest bacon-and-
greens conscience in the man; almost the one conscience
you can find in any royal man of that day.