" He had to proceed softly as well as swiftly;
with the most delicate hand to get him of Spandau by
the collar, and put him under lock-and-key, him as a
warning to others.
with the most delicate hand to get him of Spandau by
the collar, and put him under lock-and-key, him as a
warning to others.
Thomas Carlyle
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? 52 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBUEG. [bOOKHI.
1620-1640.
On the whole, George Wilhelm did what is to be
called nothing, in the Thirty-Years War; his function
was only that of suffering. He followed always the
had lead of Johann George, Elector of Saxony; a man
of no strength, devoutness or adequate human worth;
who proved, on these negative grounds, and without
flagrance of positive badness, an unspeakable curse to
Germany. Not till the Kaiser fulminated-forth his
Restitution-Edict, and showed he was in earnest about
it (1629--1631), "Restore to our Holy Church what
you have taken from her since the Peace of Passau! "
-- could this Johann George prevail upon himself to
join Sweden, or even to do other than hate it for
reasons he saw. Seized by the throat in this manner,
and ordered to deliver, Kur-Sachsen did, and Branden-
burg along with him, make Treaty with the Swede. *
In consequence of which they two, some months after,
by way of cooperating with Gustav on his great march
Vienna-ward, sent an invading force into Bohemia,
Brandenburg contributing some poor 3000 to it; who
took Prag, and some other open Towns; but "did al-
most nothing there," say the Histories, "except dine
and drink. " It is clear enough they were instantly
scattered home** at the first glimpse of Wallenstein dawning on the horizon again in those parts.
Gustav having vanished (Field of Lfitzen, 6th No-
vember 1632***), Oxenstiern, with his high attitude, and
? 8th February 1681 (KShler: Reicht-Historie, pp. 626-681).
October 1633 (Stenzel, 1. 603).
? ? ? Panli, iv. 676.
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? CHAP. xvI. ]
53
THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
1640.
"Presidency" of the "Union at Heilbronn," was rather
an offence to Kur-Sachsen, who used to be foremost
man on such occasions. Kur-Sachsen broke away again;
made his Peace of Prag,* whom Brandenburg again
followed; Brandenburg and gradually all the others,
except the noble Wilhelm of Hessen-Cassel alone.
Miserable Peace; bit of Chaos clouted-up, and done-
over with Official varnish; -- which proved to be the
signal for continuing the War beyond visible limits,
and rendering peace impossible.
After this, George Wilhelm retires from the scene;
lives in Ciistrin mainly; mere miserable days, which
shall be invisible to us. He died in 1640; and, except
producing an active brave Son very unlike himself, did
nothing considerable in the world. "Que faire; Us ont
des canons! "
Among the innumerable sanguinary tussellings of
this War are counted Three great Battles, Leipzig,
Ltitzen, Nbrdlingen. Under one great Captain, Swedish
Gustav, and the two or three other considerable Cap-
tains, who appeared in it, high passages of furious
valour, of fine strategy and tactic, are on record. But
on the whole, the grand weapon in it, and towards the
latter times the exclusive one, was Hunger. The op-
posing Armies tried to starve one another; at lowest,
tried each not to starve. Each trying to eat the
country, or at any rate to leave nothing eatable in it:
what that will mean for the country, we may consider.
? 1635, 20th May(Stenzel, i. 513).
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? 54 THE HOIIENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B00K
1620-1640.
As the Armies too frequently, and the Kaiser's Armies
habitually, lived without commissariat, often enough
without pay, all horrors of war and of being a seat of
war, that have been since heard of, are poor to those
then practised. The detail of which is still horrible to
read. Germany, in all eatable quarters of it, had to
undergo the process;-- tortured, torn to pieces, wrecked,
and brayed as in a mortar under the iron mace of war. *
Brandenburg saw its towns sieged and sacked, its
country-populations driven to despair, by the one party
and the other. Three times, -- first in the Wallen-
stein-Mecklenburg times, while fire and sword were the
weapons, and again, twice over, in the ultimate stages
of the struggle, when starvation had become the method,
-- Brandenburg fell to be the principal theatre of con-
flict, where all forms of the dismal were at their height
.
In 1638, three years after that precious "Peace of
Prag," the Swedes (Banier versus Gallas) starving-out
the Imperialists in those North-Western parts, the
ravages of the starving Gallas and his Imperialists ex-
celled all precedent; and the "famine about Tanger-
"miinde had risen so high that men ate human flesh,
"nay human creatures ate their own children. "** "Que
faire; Us ont des canons! "
? Curious incidental details of the state it was reduced to, in the Rhine
and Danube Countries, turn-up in the Earl of Arundel and Surrey's Travels
("Arundel of the Marbles") as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor
Ferdinando II. in 1636 (a small Volume, or Pamphlet, London, 1687).
1638: Pault, iv. 604.
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? CHAP. Xvn. ] DDCHT OF JAGERNDORF.
55
1824.
CHAPTER XVII.
DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.
This unfortunate George Wilhelm failed in getting
Pommern when due; Pommern, firmly held by the
Swedes, was far from him. But that was not the only
loss of territory he had. Jagerndorf, -- we have heard
of Johann George of Jagerndorf, Uncle of this George
Wilhelm, how old Joachim Friedrich put him into
Jagerndorf, long since, when it fell home to the Elec-
toral House. Jagerndorf is now lost; Johann George
is under Reichs-Acht (Ban of Empire), ever since the
Winter-King's explosion, and the thunderbolts that
followed; and wanders landless; -- nay he is long
since dead, and has six-feet of earth for a terri-
tory, far away in Transylvania, or the Riesen-Gebirge
(Giant-Mountains) somewhere. Concerning whom a
word now.
Duke of J&gerndorf, Elector's Uncle, is put under Ban.
Johann George, a frank-hearted valiant man, con-
cerning whom only good actions, and no bad one, are
on record, had notable troubles in the world; bad
troubles to begin with, and worse to end in. He was
second Son of Kurftirst Joachim Friedrich, who had
meant him for the Church. * The young fellow was
? 1S77-1624; Rentsch, p. 486,
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? 56 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG, [book in.
1620-1640.
Coadjutor of Strasburg, almost from the time of getting
into short-clothes. He was then, still very young,
elected Bishop there (1592); Bishop of Strasburg, --
but only by the Protestant part of the Canons; the
Catholic part, unable to submit longer, and thinking it
a good time for revolt against a Protestant population
and obstinately heterodox majority, elected another
Bishop; one "Karl of the House of Lorraine;" and
there came to be dispute, and came even to be fighting
needed. Fighting; which prudent Papa would not
enter into, except faintly at secondhand, through the
Anspach Cousins, or others that were in the humour.
Troublesome times for the young man; which lasted a
dozen years or more. At last a Bargain was made
(1604); Protestant and Catholic Canons splitting the
difference in some way; and the House of Lorraine
paying Johann George a great deal of money to go
home again. * Poor Johann George came out of it in
that way; not second best, think several.
He was then (1606) put into Jagerndorf, which had
just fallen vacant; our excellent fat friend, George
Friedrich of Anspach, Administrator ofPreussen, having
lately died, and left it vacant, as we saw. George
Friedrich's death yielded fine apanages, three of them
in all: first Anspach, second Baireuth, and this third of
Jagerndorf for a still younger Brother. There was still
a fourth younger Brother, Uncle of George Wilhelm;
Archbishop of Magdeburg this one; who also, as we
? (Entires completes de Voltaire, 97 vols. (Paris, 1825-82), xxxlll. 284. --
SiShler {Reiohs-lfiatorie, p. 487) gives the autheptto particulars,
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? CHAP, xvn. ] DUCHY OP JAGERNDORF. 57
1624.
have seen, got into Reichs-Acht, into deep trouble in
the Thirty-Years War. He was in Tilly's thrice-mur-
derous Storm of Magdeburg (10th May 1631); was
captured, tumbled about by the wild soldiery, and
nearly killed there. Poor man, with his mitre and
rochets left in such a state! In the end he even be-
came Catholic, -- from conviction, as was evident, and
bewilderment of mind; -- and lived in Austria on a
pension; occasionally publishing polemical pam-
phlets. * --
As to Johann George, he much repaired and beauti-
fied the Castle of Jagerndorf, says Rentsch: but he un-
fortunately went ahead into the Winter-King's ad-
venture; which, in that sad Battle of the Weissenberg,
made total shipwreck of itself, drawing Johann George
and much else along with it. Johann George was
straightway tyrannously put to the Ban, forfeited of
life and lands:** Johann George disowned the said Ban;
stood-out fiercely for self and Winter-King; and did
good fighting in the Silesian strongholds and mountain-
passes: but was forced to seek temporary shelter in
Siebenburgen (Transylvania); and died far away, in a
year or two (1524), while returning to try it again.
Sleeps, I think, in the "Jablunka Pass;" the dumb
Giant-Mountains (Riesen-Gebirge) shrouding-up his sad
shipwreck and him.
Jagerndorf was thus seized by Ferdinand II. of the
? 1587; 1628; 1665 (Rentsch, pp. 905-910).
22d January 1621 (KShler, Reichs-llistorie, p. 518; and rectify HUb-
l>>er, tab. 178),
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? 58 THE HOHENZOLLEUNS IN BRANDENBUR<3. fttOOKm.
1620-1B40.
House of Hapsburg; and though it was contrary to all
law that the Kaiser should keep it, -- poor Johann
George having left Sons very innocent of treason, and
Brothers, and an Electoral Nephew, very innocent; to
whom, by old compacts and new, the Heritage in defect
of him was to fall, -- neither Kaiser Ferdinand H. nor
Kaiser Ferdinand IH. , nor any Kaiser would let-go
the hold; but kept Jagerndorf fast clenched, deaf to all
pleadings, and monitions of gods or men. Till at
length, in the fourth generation afterwards, one "Fried-
rich the Second," not unknown to us, -- a sharp little
man, little in stature, but large in faculty and renown,
who is now called "Frederick the Great," -- clutched
hold of the Imperial fist (so to speak), seizing his op-
portunity in 1740; and so wrenched and twisted said
close fist, that not only Jagerndorf dropped out of it,
but the whole of Silesia along with Jagerndorf, there
being other claims withal. And the account was at
last settled, with compound interest, -- as in fact such
accounts are sure to be, one way or other. And so we
leave Johann George among the dumb Giant-Mountains
again.
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? CHAP, xvni. ] KURPtlRST FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
1640.
CHAPTER XVHI.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF
THE SERIES.
Brandenburg had again sunk very low under tbe
? Tenth Elector, in the unutterable troubles of the times.
But it was gloriously raised-up again by his Son
Friedrich Wilhelm, who succeeded in 1640. This is
he whom they call the "Great Elector (Grosse Kur-
fiirst);" of whom there is much writing and celebrating
in Prussian Books. As for the epithet, it is not un-
common among petty German populations, and many
times does not mean too much: thus Max of Bavaria,
with his Jesuit Lambkins and Hyacinths, is, by Bava-
rians, called "Maximilian the Great. " Friedrich Wil-
helm, both by his intrinsic qualities and the success
he met with, deserves it better than most. His success,
if we look where he started and where he ended, was
beyond that of any other man in his day. He found
Brandenburg annihilated, and he left Brandenburg sound
and flourishing; a great country, or already on the way
towards greatness. Undoubtedly a most rapid, clear-
eyed, active man. There was a stroke in him swift as
lightning, well aimed mostly, and of a respectable
weight withal; which shattered asunder a whole world
of impediments for him, by assiduous repetition of it
for fifty years. *
? 1620; 1640; 1688
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? 60 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG, [book m.
1640-1688.
There hardly ever came to sovereign power a young
man of twenty under more distressing, hopeless-looking
circumstances. Political significance Brandenburg had
none: a mere Protestant appendage dragged about by a
Papist Kaiser. His Father's Prime-Minister, as we have
seen, was in the interest of his enemies; not Branden-
burg's servant, but Austria's. The very Commandants
of his Fortresses, Commandant of Spandau more especi-
ally, refused to obey Friedrich Wilhelm, on his ac-
cession; "were bound to obey the Kaiser in the first
place.
" He had to proceed softly as well as swiftly;
with the most delicate hand to get him of Spandau by
the collar, and put him under lock-and-key, him as a
warning to others.
For twenty years past, Brandenburg had been
scoured by hostile armies, which, especially the Kai-
ser's part of which, committed outrages new in human
history. In a year or two hence, Brandenburg be-
came again the theatre of business; Austrian Gallas
advancing thither again (1644), with intent "to shut-up
Torstenson and his Swedes in Jutland," where they
had been chastising old Christian IV. , now meddlesome
again for the last time, and never a good neighbour to
Sweden. Gallas could by no means do what he in-
tended; on the contrary, he had to run from Torsten-
son, what feet could do; was hunted, he and his Merode-
Briider (beautiful inventors of the "Marauding" Art),
"till they pretty much all died (crepirten)," says Kbh-
ler. * No great loss to society, the death of these Ar-
? Reichs-Uistorie, p. 558; Pauli, v. 24.
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? chap, xvm. ] kurfCkst friedrich wilhelm. 61
1644.
tists; but we can fancy what their life, and especially
what the process of their dying, may have cost poor
Brandenburg again! --
Friedrich Wilhelm's aim, in this as in other emergen-
cies, was sun-clear to himself, but for most part dim to
everybody else. He had to walk very warily, Sweden
on one hand of him, suspicious Kaiser on the other;
he had to wear semblances, to be ready with evasive
words; and advance noiselessly by many circuits. More
delicate operation could not be imagined. But advance
he did; advance and arrive. With extraordinary talent,
diligence and felicity the young man wound himself
out of this first fatal position; got those foreign Armies
pushed-out of his Country, and kept them out. His
first concern had been to find some vestige of revenue,
to put that upon a clear footing; and by loans or other-
wise to scrape a little ready-money together. On the
strength of which a small body of soldiers could be
collected about him, and drilled into real ability to
fight and obey. This as a basis; on this followed all
manner of things; freedom from Swedish-Austrian in-
vasions, as the first thing.
He was himself, as appeared by and by, a fighter
of the first quality, when it came to that; but never
was willing to fight, if he could help it. Preferred
rather to shift, manoeuvre and negotiate; which he did
in a most vigilant, adroit and masterly manner. But
by degrees he had grown to have, and could maintain
it, an Army of 24,000 men; among the best troops
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? 62 THE HOHENZOLLEBNS IN BRANDENBUKG. [boOKIM
1640-1688.
then in being. With or without his will, he was in
all the great Wars of his time, -- the time of Louis
XIV. , who kindled Europe four times over, thrice in
our Kurfiirst's day. The Kurfurst's Dominions, a long
straggling country, reaching from Memel to Wesel,
could hardly keep out of the way of any war that
might rise. He made himself available, never against
the good cause of Protestantism and German Freedom,
yet always in the place and way where his own best
advantage was to be had. Louis XIV. had often much
need of him; still oftener, and more pressingly, had
Kaiser Leopold, the little Gentleman "in scarlet stock-
ings, with a red feather in his hat," whom Mr. Savage
used to see majestically walking about, with Austrian
lip that said nothing at all. * His 24,000 excellent
fighting-men, thrown-in at the right time, were often a
thing that could turn the balance in great questions.
They required to be allowed-for at a high rate, --
which he well knew how to adjust himself for exacting
and securing always.
? A Compleat History of Germany, by Mr. Savage (8vo, London, 1702),
p. 553. Who this Mr. Savage was, we have no trace. Prefixed to the
volume is the Portrait of a solid Gentleman of forty; gloomily polite, with
ample wig and cravat, -- iu all likelihood some studious subaltern Diplo-
matist in the Succession War. His little Book is very lean and barren; but
faithfully compiled, -- and might have some illumination in it, where utter
darkness Is so prevalent. Most likely, Addison picked his story of the Siege
of Weinsberg ("Women carrying out their Husbands on their back," -- on*
ol his best Spectators) out of this poor Bnok.
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? chap, xvm. ] kurfCkst friedrich wilhelm. 63
1648.
What became of Pommern at the Peace; final glance into
Cleve-Julich.
When the Peace of Westphalia (1648) concluded
that Thirty-Years Conflagration, and swept the ashes
of it into order again, Friedrich Wilhelm's right to
Pommern was admitted by everybody; and well in-
sisted on by himself: but right had to yield to reason
of state, and he could not get it. The Swedes insisted
on their expenses; the Swedes held Pommern, had all
along held it, -- in pawn, they said, for their ex-
penses. Nothing for it but to give the Swedes the
better half of Pommern. i^ore-Pommern (so they call
it, "Swedish Pomerania" thenceforth), which lies next
the Sea; this, with some Towns and cuttings over
and above, was Sweden's share: Friedrich Wilhelm
had to put-up with Jlinder-Vommem, docked further-
more of the Town of Stettin, and of other valuable
cuttings, in favour of Sweden. Much to Friedrich Wil-
helm's grief and just anger, could he have helped it.
They gave him Three secularised Bishoprics, Magde-
burg, Halberstadt, Minden with other small remnants,
for compensation; and he had to be content with these
for the present. But he never gave-up the idea of
Pommern; much of the effort of his life was spent upon
recovering Fore-Pommern; thrice-eager upon that, when-
ever lawful opportunity offered. To no purpose then;
he never could recover Swedish Pommern; only his
late descendants, and that by slowish degrees, could
recover it all. Readers remember that Btirgermeister
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1640-1688.
of Stettin, with the helmet and sword flung into
the grave and picked out again; -- and can judge
whether Brandenburg got its good-luck quite by lying
in bed! --
Once, and once only, he had a voluntary purpose
towards War, and it remained a purpose only. Soon
after the Peace of Westphalia, old Pfalz-Neuburg, the
same who got the slap on the face, went into tyrannous
proceedings against the Protestant part of his subjects
in Julich-Cleve; who called to Friedrich Wilhelm for
help. Friedrich Wilhelm, a zealous Protestant, made
remonstrances, retaliations: ere long the thought struck
him, "Suppose, backed by the Dutch, we threw-out
this fantastic old gentleman, his Papistries, and pre-
tended claims and self, clear out of it? " This was
Friedrich Wilhelm's thought; and he suddenly marched
troops into the Territory, with that view. But Europe
was in alarm, the Dutch grew faint: Friedrich Wil-
helm saw it would not do. He had a conference with
old Pfalz-Neuburg: "Young gentleman, we remember
how your Grandfather made free with us, and our
august countenance! Nevertheless we --" In fine, the
"statistic of Treaties" was increased by One; and there
the matter rested till calmer times.
In 1666, as already said, an effective Partition of
these litigated Territories was accomplished: Prussia to
have the Duchy of Cleve-Proper, the Counties of Mark
and Ravensberg, with other Patches and Pertinents;
Neuburg, what was the better share, to have Julich
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? chap, xna. ] kurfUrst friedrich wilhelm. 65
1666.
Duchy and Berg Duchy. Furthermore, if either of
the Lines failed, in no sort was a collateral to be ad-
mitted; but Brandenburg was to inherit Neuburg, or
Neuburg Brandenburg, as the case might be. * A
clear Bargain this at last; and in the times that had
come, it proved executable so far. But if the reader
fancies the Lawsuit was at last out in this way, he
will be a simple reader! In the days of our little
Fritz, the Line of Pfalz-Neuburg was evidently end-
ing: but that Brandenburg and not a collateral should
succeed it, there lay the quarrel, -- open still, as if
it had never been shut; and we shall hear enough
about it! --
The Great Kurfiirsfs Wars: what he achieved in War
and Peace.
Friedrich Wilhelm's first actual appearance in War,
Polish-Swedish War (1655-1660), was involuntary in
the highest degree; forced upon him for the sake of
his Preussen, which bade fair to be lost or ruined,
without blame of his or its. Nevertheless, here too,
he made his benefit of the affair. The big King of
Sweden had a standing quarrel with his big cousin of
Poland, which broke-out into hot War; little Preussen
lay between them, and was like to be crushed in the
collision. Swedish King was Karl Gustav, Christina's
Cousin, Charles Twelfth's Grandfather; a great and
mighty man, lion of the North in his time: Polish
? Pauli, v. 120-129.
Carlyle, Frederic the Great. II. 5
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? 66 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B0OK m'
1840-1688.
King was one John Casimir; chivalrous enough, and
with clouds of forward Polish chivalry about him, glit-
tering with barbaric gold. Frederick III. , Danish King
for the time being, he also was much involved in the
thing. Fain would Friedrich Wilhelm have kept out
of it, but he could not. Karl Gustav as good as
forced him to join: he joined; fought along with
Karl Gustav an illustrious Battle; "Battle of Warsaw,"
three days long (28-30th July 1656), on the skirts
of Warsaw, -- crowds "looking from the upper win-
dows" there; Polish chivalry, broken at last, going
like chaff upon the winds, and John Casimir nearly
ruined.
Shortly after which, Friedrich Wilhelm, who had
shone much in the Battle, changed sides. An incon-
sistent, treacherous man? Perhaps not, O reader; per-
haps a man advancing "in circuits," the only way he
has; spirally, face now to east, now to west, with his
own reasonable private aim sun-clear to him all the
while?
John Casimir agreed to give-up the "Homage of
Preussen" for this service; a grand prize for Friedrich
Wilhelm. * What the Teutsch Ritters strove for in
vain, and lost their existence in striving for, the shifty
Kurfurst has now got: Ducal Prussia, which is also
called East Prussia, is now a free sovereignty, -- and
will become as "Royal" as the other Polish part . Or
perhaps even more so, in the course of time! -- Karl
? Treaty of Lablau, 10th November 1666 (Paull, v. 78-76); 20th Novem-
ber (Stenzel, iv. 128, -- who always uses New Style).
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? CHAP. xvm. ] kukfDbst priedeich wilhelm. G7
1656.
Gustav, in a high frame of mind, informs the Kurfurst,
that he has him on his books, and will pay the debt
one day!
A dangerous debtor in such matters, this Karl Gus-
tav. In these same months, busy with the Danish part
of the Controversy, he was doing a feat of war, which
set all Europe in astonishment. In January 1658,
Karl Gustav marches his Army, horse, foot and artil-
lery, to the extent of Twenty-thousand, across the
Baltic ice, and takes an Island without shipping, -- Island of Fiinen, across the Little Belt; three miles of
ice; and a part of the sea open, which has to be crossed
on planks. Nay forward from Fiinen, when once
there, he achieves ten whole miles more of ice; and
takes Zealand itself,* -- to the wonder of all mankind.
An imperious, stern-browed, swift-striking man; who
had dreamed of a new Goth Empire: The mean Hypo-
crites and Fribbles of the South to be coerced again by
noble Norse valour, and taught a new lesson. Has
been known to lay his hand on his sword while ap-
prising an Ambassador (Dutch High-Mightiness) what
his royal intentions were: "Not the sale or purchase of
groceries, observe you, Sir! My aims go higher! " --
Charles Twelfth's Grandfather, and somewhat the same
type of man.
But Karl Gustav died, short while after;** left his
big wide-raging Northern Controversy to collapse in
what way it could. Sweden and the fighting-parties
? Holberg's Danemarkische Reichs-Hictorie, pp. 406-409.
? ? 13tt February 1660, age 38.
5*
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? G8 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B00Km-
1640-1C88.
made their "Peace of Oliva" (Abbey of Oliva, near
Dantzig, 1st May 1660); and this of Preussen was ra-
tified, in all form, among the other points. No Ho-
mage more; nothing now above Ducal Prussia but the
Heavens; and great times coming for it. This was one
of the successfullest strokes of business ever done by
Friedrich Wilhelm; who had been forced, by sheer
compulsion, to embark in that big game. -- "Royal
Prussia," the Western or Polish Prussia: this too, as
all Newspapers know, has, in our times, gone the same
road as the other. Which probably, after all, it may
have had, in Nature, some tendency to do? Cut away,
for reasons, by the Polish sword, in that Battle of
Tannenberg, long since; and then, also for reasons,
cut back again! That is the fact; -- not unexampled
in human History.
Old Johann Casimir, not long after that Peace of
Oliva, getting tired of his unruly Polish chivalry and
their ways, abdicated; -- retired to Paris; and "lived
much with Ninon de l'Enclos and her circle," for the
rest of his life. He used to complain of his Polish
chivalry, that there was no solidity in them; nothing
but outside glitter, with tumult and anarchic noise;
fatal want of one essential talent, the talent of Obeying;
. -- and has been heard to prophesy that a glorious Re-
public, persisting in such courses, would arrive at
results which would surprise it.
Onward from this time, Friedrich Wilhelm figures
in the world; public men watching his procedure; Kinga
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? 52 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBUEG. [bOOKHI.
1620-1640.
On the whole, George Wilhelm did what is to be
called nothing, in the Thirty-Years War; his function
was only that of suffering. He followed always the
had lead of Johann George, Elector of Saxony; a man
of no strength, devoutness or adequate human worth;
who proved, on these negative grounds, and without
flagrance of positive badness, an unspeakable curse to
Germany. Not till the Kaiser fulminated-forth his
Restitution-Edict, and showed he was in earnest about
it (1629--1631), "Restore to our Holy Church what
you have taken from her since the Peace of Passau! "
-- could this Johann George prevail upon himself to
join Sweden, or even to do other than hate it for
reasons he saw. Seized by the throat in this manner,
and ordered to deliver, Kur-Sachsen did, and Branden-
burg along with him, make Treaty with the Swede. *
In consequence of which they two, some months after,
by way of cooperating with Gustav on his great march
Vienna-ward, sent an invading force into Bohemia,
Brandenburg contributing some poor 3000 to it; who
took Prag, and some other open Towns; but "did al-
most nothing there," say the Histories, "except dine
and drink. " It is clear enough they were instantly
scattered home** at the first glimpse of Wallenstein dawning on the horizon again in those parts.
Gustav having vanished (Field of Lfitzen, 6th No-
vember 1632***), Oxenstiern, with his high attitude, and
? 8th February 1681 (KShler: Reicht-Historie, pp. 626-681).
October 1633 (Stenzel, 1. 603).
? ? ? Panli, iv. 676.
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? CHAP. xvI. ]
53
THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
1640.
"Presidency" of the "Union at Heilbronn," was rather
an offence to Kur-Sachsen, who used to be foremost
man on such occasions. Kur-Sachsen broke away again;
made his Peace of Prag,* whom Brandenburg again
followed; Brandenburg and gradually all the others,
except the noble Wilhelm of Hessen-Cassel alone.
Miserable Peace; bit of Chaos clouted-up, and done-
over with Official varnish; -- which proved to be the
signal for continuing the War beyond visible limits,
and rendering peace impossible.
After this, George Wilhelm retires from the scene;
lives in Ciistrin mainly; mere miserable days, which
shall be invisible to us. He died in 1640; and, except
producing an active brave Son very unlike himself, did
nothing considerable in the world. "Que faire; Us ont
des canons! "
Among the innumerable sanguinary tussellings of
this War are counted Three great Battles, Leipzig,
Ltitzen, Nbrdlingen. Under one great Captain, Swedish
Gustav, and the two or three other considerable Cap-
tains, who appeared in it, high passages of furious
valour, of fine strategy and tactic, are on record. But
on the whole, the grand weapon in it, and towards the
latter times the exclusive one, was Hunger. The op-
posing Armies tried to starve one another; at lowest,
tried each not to starve. Each trying to eat the
country, or at any rate to leave nothing eatable in it:
what that will mean for the country, we may consider.
? 1635, 20th May(Stenzel, i. 513).
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? 54 THE HOIIENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B00K
1620-1640.
As the Armies too frequently, and the Kaiser's Armies
habitually, lived without commissariat, often enough
without pay, all horrors of war and of being a seat of
war, that have been since heard of, are poor to those
then practised. The detail of which is still horrible to
read. Germany, in all eatable quarters of it, had to
undergo the process;-- tortured, torn to pieces, wrecked,
and brayed as in a mortar under the iron mace of war. *
Brandenburg saw its towns sieged and sacked, its
country-populations driven to despair, by the one party
and the other. Three times, -- first in the Wallen-
stein-Mecklenburg times, while fire and sword were the
weapons, and again, twice over, in the ultimate stages
of the struggle, when starvation had become the method,
-- Brandenburg fell to be the principal theatre of con-
flict, where all forms of the dismal were at their height
.
In 1638, three years after that precious "Peace of
Prag," the Swedes (Banier versus Gallas) starving-out
the Imperialists in those North-Western parts, the
ravages of the starving Gallas and his Imperialists ex-
celled all precedent; and the "famine about Tanger-
"miinde had risen so high that men ate human flesh,
"nay human creatures ate their own children. "** "Que
faire; Us ont des canons! "
? Curious incidental details of the state it was reduced to, in the Rhine
and Danube Countries, turn-up in the Earl of Arundel and Surrey's Travels
("Arundel of the Marbles") as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Emperor
Ferdinando II. in 1636 (a small Volume, or Pamphlet, London, 1687).
1638: Pault, iv. 604.
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? CHAP. Xvn. ] DDCHT OF JAGERNDORF.
55
1824.
CHAPTER XVII.
DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.
This unfortunate George Wilhelm failed in getting
Pommern when due; Pommern, firmly held by the
Swedes, was far from him. But that was not the only
loss of territory he had. Jagerndorf, -- we have heard
of Johann George of Jagerndorf, Uncle of this George
Wilhelm, how old Joachim Friedrich put him into
Jagerndorf, long since, when it fell home to the Elec-
toral House. Jagerndorf is now lost; Johann George
is under Reichs-Acht (Ban of Empire), ever since the
Winter-King's explosion, and the thunderbolts that
followed; and wanders landless; -- nay he is long
since dead, and has six-feet of earth for a terri-
tory, far away in Transylvania, or the Riesen-Gebirge
(Giant-Mountains) somewhere. Concerning whom a
word now.
Duke of J&gerndorf, Elector's Uncle, is put under Ban.
Johann George, a frank-hearted valiant man, con-
cerning whom only good actions, and no bad one, are
on record, had notable troubles in the world; bad
troubles to begin with, and worse to end in. He was
second Son of Kurftirst Joachim Friedrich, who had
meant him for the Church. * The young fellow was
? 1S77-1624; Rentsch, p. 486,
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? 56 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG, [book in.
1620-1640.
Coadjutor of Strasburg, almost from the time of getting
into short-clothes. He was then, still very young,
elected Bishop there (1592); Bishop of Strasburg, --
but only by the Protestant part of the Canons; the
Catholic part, unable to submit longer, and thinking it
a good time for revolt against a Protestant population
and obstinately heterodox majority, elected another
Bishop; one "Karl of the House of Lorraine;" and
there came to be dispute, and came even to be fighting
needed. Fighting; which prudent Papa would not
enter into, except faintly at secondhand, through the
Anspach Cousins, or others that were in the humour.
Troublesome times for the young man; which lasted a
dozen years or more. At last a Bargain was made
(1604); Protestant and Catholic Canons splitting the
difference in some way; and the House of Lorraine
paying Johann George a great deal of money to go
home again. * Poor Johann George came out of it in
that way; not second best, think several.
He was then (1606) put into Jagerndorf, which had
just fallen vacant; our excellent fat friend, George
Friedrich of Anspach, Administrator ofPreussen, having
lately died, and left it vacant, as we saw. George
Friedrich's death yielded fine apanages, three of them
in all: first Anspach, second Baireuth, and this third of
Jagerndorf for a still younger Brother. There was still
a fourth younger Brother, Uncle of George Wilhelm;
Archbishop of Magdeburg this one; who also, as we
? (Entires completes de Voltaire, 97 vols. (Paris, 1825-82), xxxlll. 284. --
SiShler {Reiohs-lfiatorie, p. 487) gives the autheptto particulars,
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? CHAP, xvn. ] DUCHY OP JAGERNDORF. 57
1624.
have seen, got into Reichs-Acht, into deep trouble in
the Thirty-Years War. He was in Tilly's thrice-mur-
derous Storm of Magdeburg (10th May 1631); was
captured, tumbled about by the wild soldiery, and
nearly killed there. Poor man, with his mitre and
rochets left in such a state! In the end he even be-
came Catholic, -- from conviction, as was evident, and
bewilderment of mind; -- and lived in Austria on a
pension; occasionally publishing polemical pam-
phlets. * --
As to Johann George, he much repaired and beauti-
fied the Castle of Jagerndorf, says Rentsch: but he un-
fortunately went ahead into the Winter-King's ad-
venture; which, in that sad Battle of the Weissenberg,
made total shipwreck of itself, drawing Johann George
and much else along with it. Johann George was
straightway tyrannously put to the Ban, forfeited of
life and lands:** Johann George disowned the said Ban;
stood-out fiercely for self and Winter-King; and did
good fighting in the Silesian strongholds and mountain-
passes: but was forced to seek temporary shelter in
Siebenburgen (Transylvania); and died far away, in a
year or two (1524), while returning to try it again.
Sleeps, I think, in the "Jablunka Pass;" the dumb
Giant-Mountains (Riesen-Gebirge) shrouding-up his sad
shipwreck and him.
Jagerndorf was thus seized by Ferdinand II. of the
? 1587; 1628; 1665 (Rentsch, pp. 905-910).
22d January 1621 (KShler, Reichs-llistorie, p. 518; and rectify HUb-
l>>er, tab. 178),
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? 58 THE HOHENZOLLEUNS IN BRANDENBUR<3. fttOOKm.
1620-1B40.
House of Hapsburg; and though it was contrary to all
law that the Kaiser should keep it, -- poor Johann
George having left Sons very innocent of treason, and
Brothers, and an Electoral Nephew, very innocent; to
whom, by old compacts and new, the Heritage in defect
of him was to fall, -- neither Kaiser Ferdinand H. nor
Kaiser Ferdinand IH. , nor any Kaiser would let-go
the hold; but kept Jagerndorf fast clenched, deaf to all
pleadings, and monitions of gods or men. Till at
length, in the fourth generation afterwards, one "Fried-
rich the Second," not unknown to us, -- a sharp little
man, little in stature, but large in faculty and renown,
who is now called "Frederick the Great," -- clutched
hold of the Imperial fist (so to speak), seizing his op-
portunity in 1740; and so wrenched and twisted said
close fist, that not only Jagerndorf dropped out of it,
but the whole of Silesia along with Jagerndorf, there
being other claims withal. And the account was at
last settled, with compound interest, -- as in fact such
accounts are sure to be, one way or other. And so we
leave Johann George among the dumb Giant-Mountains
again.
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? CHAP, xvni. ] KURPtlRST FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
1640.
CHAPTER XVHI.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF
THE SERIES.
Brandenburg had again sunk very low under tbe
? Tenth Elector, in the unutterable troubles of the times.
But it was gloriously raised-up again by his Son
Friedrich Wilhelm, who succeeded in 1640. This is
he whom they call the "Great Elector (Grosse Kur-
fiirst);" of whom there is much writing and celebrating
in Prussian Books. As for the epithet, it is not un-
common among petty German populations, and many
times does not mean too much: thus Max of Bavaria,
with his Jesuit Lambkins and Hyacinths, is, by Bava-
rians, called "Maximilian the Great. " Friedrich Wil-
helm, both by his intrinsic qualities and the success
he met with, deserves it better than most. His success,
if we look where he started and where he ended, was
beyond that of any other man in his day. He found
Brandenburg annihilated, and he left Brandenburg sound
and flourishing; a great country, or already on the way
towards greatness. Undoubtedly a most rapid, clear-
eyed, active man. There was a stroke in him swift as
lightning, well aimed mostly, and of a respectable
weight withal; which shattered asunder a whole world
of impediments for him, by assiduous repetition of it
for fifty years. *
? 1620; 1640; 1688
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? 60 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG, [book m.
1640-1688.
There hardly ever came to sovereign power a young
man of twenty under more distressing, hopeless-looking
circumstances. Political significance Brandenburg had
none: a mere Protestant appendage dragged about by a
Papist Kaiser. His Father's Prime-Minister, as we have
seen, was in the interest of his enemies; not Branden-
burg's servant, but Austria's. The very Commandants
of his Fortresses, Commandant of Spandau more especi-
ally, refused to obey Friedrich Wilhelm, on his ac-
cession; "were bound to obey the Kaiser in the first
place.
" He had to proceed softly as well as swiftly;
with the most delicate hand to get him of Spandau by
the collar, and put him under lock-and-key, him as a
warning to others.
For twenty years past, Brandenburg had been
scoured by hostile armies, which, especially the Kai-
ser's part of which, committed outrages new in human
history. In a year or two hence, Brandenburg be-
came again the theatre of business; Austrian Gallas
advancing thither again (1644), with intent "to shut-up
Torstenson and his Swedes in Jutland," where they
had been chastising old Christian IV. , now meddlesome
again for the last time, and never a good neighbour to
Sweden. Gallas could by no means do what he in-
tended; on the contrary, he had to run from Torsten-
son, what feet could do; was hunted, he and his Merode-
Briider (beautiful inventors of the "Marauding" Art),
"till they pretty much all died (crepirten)," says Kbh-
ler. * No great loss to society, the death of these Ar-
? Reichs-Uistorie, p. 558; Pauli, v. 24.
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? chap, xvm. ] kurfCkst friedrich wilhelm. 61
1644.
tists; but we can fancy what their life, and especially
what the process of their dying, may have cost poor
Brandenburg again! --
Friedrich Wilhelm's aim, in this as in other emergen-
cies, was sun-clear to himself, but for most part dim to
everybody else. He had to walk very warily, Sweden
on one hand of him, suspicious Kaiser on the other;
he had to wear semblances, to be ready with evasive
words; and advance noiselessly by many circuits. More
delicate operation could not be imagined. But advance
he did; advance and arrive. With extraordinary talent,
diligence and felicity the young man wound himself
out of this first fatal position; got those foreign Armies
pushed-out of his Country, and kept them out. His
first concern had been to find some vestige of revenue,
to put that upon a clear footing; and by loans or other-
wise to scrape a little ready-money together. On the
strength of which a small body of soldiers could be
collected about him, and drilled into real ability to
fight and obey. This as a basis; on this followed all
manner of things; freedom from Swedish-Austrian in-
vasions, as the first thing.
He was himself, as appeared by and by, a fighter
of the first quality, when it came to that; but never
was willing to fight, if he could help it. Preferred
rather to shift, manoeuvre and negotiate; which he did
in a most vigilant, adroit and masterly manner. But
by degrees he had grown to have, and could maintain
it, an Army of 24,000 men; among the best troops
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? 62 THE HOHENZOLLEBNS IN BRANDENBUKG. [boOKIM
1640-1688.
then in being. With or without his will, he was in
all the great Wars of his time, -- the time of Louis
XIV. , who kindled Europe four times over, thrice in
our Kurfiirst's day. The Kurfurst's Dominions, a long
straggling country, reaching from Memel to Wesel,
could hardly keep out of the way of any war that
might rise. He made himself available, never against
the good cause of Protestantism and German Freedom,
yet always in the place and way where his own best
advantage was to be had. Louis XIV. had often much
need of him; still oftener, and more pressingly, had
Kaiser Leopold, the little Gentleman "in scarlet stock-
ings, with a red feather in his hat," whom Mr. Savage
used to see majestically walking about, with Austrian
lip that said nothing at all. * His 24,000 excellent
fighting-men, thrown-in at the right time, were often a
thing that could turn the balance in great questions.
They required to be allowed-for at a high rate, --
which he well knew how to adjust himself for exacting
and securing always.
? A Compleat History of Germany, by Mr. Savage (8vo, London, 1702),
p. 553. Who this Mr. Savage was, we have no trace. Prefixed to the
volume is the Portrait of a solid Gentleman of forty; gloomily polite, with
ample wig and cravat, -- iu all likelihood some studious subaltern Diplo-
matist in the Succession War. His little Book is very lean and barren; but
faithfully compiled, -- and might have some illumination in it, where utter
darkness Is so prevalent. Most likely, Addison picked his story of the Siege
of Weinsberg ("Women carrying out their Husbands on their back," -- on*
ol his best Spectators) out of this poor Bnok.
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? chap, xvm. ] kurfCkst friedrich wilhelm. 63
1648.
What became of Pommern at the Peace; final glance into
Cleve-Julich.
When the Peace of Westphalia (1648) concluded
that Thirty-Years Conflagration, and swept the ashes
of it into order again, Friedrich Wilhelm's right to
Pommern was admitted by everybody; and well in-
sisted on by himself: but right had to yield to reason
of state, and he could not get it. The Swedes insisted
on their expenses; the Swedes held Pommern, had all
along held it, -- in pawn, they said, for their ex-
penses. Nothing for it but to give the Swedes the
better half of Pommern. i^ore-Pommern (so they call
it, "Swedish Pomerania" thenceforth), which lies next
the Sea; this, with some Towns and cuttings over
and above, was Sweden's share: Friedrich Wilhelm
had to put-up with Jlinder-Vommem, docked further-
more of the Town of Stettin, and of other valuable
cuttings, in favour of Sweden. Much to Friedrich Wil-
helm's grief and just anger, could he have helped it.
They gave him Three secularised Bishoprics, Magde-
burg, Halberstadt, Minden with other small remnants,
for compensation; and he had to be content with these
for the present. But he never gave-up the idea of
Pommern; much of the effort of his life was spent upon
recovering Fore-Pommern; thrice-eager upon that, when-
ever lawful opportunity offered. To no purpose then;
he never could recover Swedish Pommern; only his
late descendants, and that by slowish degrees, could
recover it all. Readers remember that Btirgermeister
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1640-1688.
of Stettin, with the helmet and sword flung into
the grave and picked out again; -- and can judge
whether Brandenburg got its good-luck quite by lying
in bed! --
Once, and once only, he had a voluntary purpose
towards War, and it remained a purpose only. Soon
after the Peace of Westphalia, old Pfalz-Neuburg, the
same who got the slap on the face, went into tyrannous
proceedings against the Protestant part of his subjects
in Julich-Cleve; who called to Friedrich Wilhelm for
help. Friedrich Wilhelm, a zealous Protestant, made
remonstrances, retaliations: ere long the thought struck
him, "Suppose, backed by the Dutch, we threw-out
this fantastic old gentleman, his Papistries, and pre-
tended claims and self, clear out of it? " This was
Friedrich Wilhelm's thought; and he suddenly marched
troops into the Territory, with that view. But Europe
was in alarm, the Dutch grew faint: Friedrich Wil-
helm saw it would not do. He had a conference with
old Pfalz-Neuburg: "Young gentleman, we remember
how your Grandfather made free with us, and our
august countenance! Nevertheless we --" In fine, the
"statistic of Treaties" was increased by One; and there
the matter rested till calmer times.
In 1666, as already said, an effective Partition of
these litigated Territories was accomplished: Prussia to
have the Duchy of Cleve-Proper, the Counties of Mark
and Ravensberg, with other Patches and Pertinents;
Neuburg, what was the better share, to have Julich
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? chap, xna. ] kurfUrst friedrich wilhelm. 65
1666.
Duchy and Berg Duchy. Furthermore, if either of
the Lines failed, in no sort was a collateral to be ad-
mitted; but Brandenburg was to inherit Neuburg, or
Neuburg Brandenburg, as the case might be. * A
clear Bargain this at last; and in the times that had
come, it proved executable so far. But if the reader
fancies the Lawsuit was at last out in this way, he
will be a simple reader! In the days of our little
Fritz, the Line of Pfalz-Neuburg was evidently end-
ing: but that Brandenburg and not a collateral should
succeed it, there lay the quarrel, -- open still, as if
it had never been shut; and we shall hear enough
about it! --
The Great Kurfiirsfs Wars: what he achieved in War
and Peace.
Friedrich Wilhelm's first actual appearance in War,
Polish-Swedish War (1655-1660), was involuntary in
the highest degree; forced upon him for the sake of
his Preussen, which bade fair to be lost or ruined,
without blame of his or its. Nevertheless, here too,
he made his benefit of the affair. The big King of
Sweden had a standing quarrel with his big cousin of
Poland, which broke-out into hot War; little Preussen
lay between them, and was like to be crushed in the
collision. Swedish King was Karl Gustav, Christina's
Cousin, Charles Twelfth's Grandfather; a great and
mighty man, lion of the North in his time: Polish
? Pauli, v. 120-129.
Carlyle, Frederic the Great. II. 5
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? 66 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B0OK m'
1840-1688.
King was one John Casimir; chivalrous enough, and
with clouds of forward Polish chivalry about him, glit-
tering with barbaric gold. Frederick III. , Danish King
for the time being, he also was much involved in the
thing. Fain would Friedrich Wilhelm have kept out
of it, but he could not. Karl Gustav as good as
forced him to join: he joined; fought along with
Karl Gustav an illustrious Battle; "Battle of Warsaw,"
three days long (28-30th July 1656), on the skirts
of Warsaw, -- crowds "looking from the upper win-
dows" there; Polish chivalry, broken at last, going
like chaff upon the winds, and John Casimir nearly
ruined.
Shortly after which, Friedrich Wilhelm, who had
shone much in the Battle, changed sides. An incon-
sistent, treacherous man? Perhaps not, O reader; per-
haps a man advancing "in circuits," the only way he
has; spirally, face now to east, now to west, with his
own reasonable private aim sun-clear to him all the
while?
John Casimir agreed to give-up the "Homage of
Preussen" for this service; a grand prize for Friedrich
Wilhelm. * What the Teutsch Ritters strove for in
vain, and lost their existence in striving for, the shifty
Kurfurst has now got: Ducal Prussia, which is also
called East Prussia, is now a free sovereignty, -- and
will become as "Royal" as the other Polish part . Or
perhaps even more so, in the course of time! -- Karl
? Treaty of Lablau, 10th November 1666 (Paull, v. 78-76); 20th Novem-
ber (Stenzel, iv. 128, -- who always uses New Style).
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? CHAP. xvm. ] kukfDbst priedeich wilhelm. G7
1656.
Gustav, in a high frame of mind, informs the Kurfurst,
that he has him on his books, and will pay the debt
one day!
A dangerous debtor in such matters, this Karl Gus-
tav. In these same months, busy with the Danish part
of the Controversy, he was doing a feat of war, which
set all Europe in astonishment. In January 1658,
Karl Gustav marches his Army, horse, foot and artil-
lery, to the extent of Twenty-thousand, across the
Baltic ice, and takes an Island without shipping, -- Island of Fiinen, across the Little Belt; three miles of
ice; and a part of the sea open, which has to be crossed
on planks. Nay forward from Fiinen, when once
there, he achieves ten whole miles more of ice; and
takes Zealand itself,* -- to the wonder of all mankind.
An imperious, stern-browed, swift-striking man; who
had dreamed of a new Goth Empire: The mean Hypo-
crites and Fribbles of the South to be coerced again by
noble Norse valour, and taught a new lesson. Has
been known to lay his hand on his sword while ap-
prising an Ambassador (Dutch High-Mightiness) what
his royal intentions were: "Not the sale or purchase of
groceries, observe you, Sir! My aims go higher! " --
Charles Twelfth's Grandfather, and somewhat the same
type of man.
But Karl Gustav died, short while after;** left his
big wide-raging Northern Controversy to collapse in
what way it could. Sweden and the fighting-parties
? Holberg's Danemarkische Reichs-Hictorie, pp. 406-409.
? ? 13tt February 1660, age 38.
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? G8 THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. [B00Km-
1640-1C88.
made their "Peace of Oliva" (Abbey of Oliva, near
Dantzig, 1st May 1660); and this of Preussen was ra-
tified, in all form, among the other points. No Ho-
mage more; nothing now above Ducal Prussia but the
Heavens; and great times coming for it. This was one
of the successfullest strokes of business ever done by
Friedrich Wilhelm; who had been forced, by sheer
compulsion, to embark in that big game. -- "Royal
Prussia," the Western or Polish Prussia: this too, as
all Newspapers know, has, in our times, gone the same
road as the other. Which probably, after all, it may
have had, in Nature, some tendency to do? Cut away,
for reasons, by the Polish sword, in that Battle of
Tannenberg, long since; and then, also for reasons,
cut back again! That is the fact; -- not unexampled
in human History.
Old Johann Casimir, not long after that Peace of
Oliva, getting tired of his unruly Polish chivalry and
their ways, abdicated; -- retired to Paris; and "lived
much with Ninon de l'Enclos and her circle," for the
rest of his life. He used to complain of his Polish
chivalry, that there was no solidity in them; nothing
but outside glitter, with tumult and anarchic noise;
fatal want of one essential talent, the talent of Obeying;
. -- and has been heard to prophesy that a glorious Re-
public, persisting in such courses, would arrive at
results which would surprise it.
Onward from this time, Friedrich Wilhelm figures
in the world; public men watching his procedure; Kinga
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