OF

FRIEDRICH THE SECOND,

CALLED

FREDERICK THE GREAT.

BY

THOMAS CARLYLE.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

BOOK VI.

DOUBLE MARRIAGE PROJECT AND CROWN-PRINCE GOING ADRIFT

UNDER THE STORM-WINDS.

CHAPTER

1727-1730.

I. FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE HUNT.......

Crown-Prince seen in Dryasdust's glass darkly, p. 3.

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1

II. DEATH OF GEORGE I..........

5

His Prussian Majesty falls into one of his Hypochondriacal

Fits, p. 10.

III. VISIT TO DRESDEN.....

15

The Physically Strong pays his Counter-Visit, p. 22.

Of Princess Wilhelmina's Four Kings and other ineffectual

Suitors, 28.

IV. DOUBLE MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD........

31

Crown-Prince Friedrich writes certain Letters, p. 33.

Double Marriage Project re-emerges in an Official shape, 35.

His Majesty slaughters 3602 Head of Wild Swine, 39.

Falls ill in consequence; and the Double Marriage can not

get forward, 39.

V. CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE HUNT.. 42

VI. IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND

PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES

54

Cause First: the Hanover Joint Heritages, which are not in

a liquid state, p. 57.

Cause Second: the Troubles of Mecklenburg, 58.

Causes Third and Fourth; and Cause Fifth, worth all the

others, 62.

Troubles of Mecklenburg, for the last time, 76.

One Nüssler settles the Ahlden Heritages; sends the Money

home in Boxes, 79.

VII. A MARRIAGE; NOT THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE

DEEP IN TROUBLE

Crown-Prince's Domesticities seen in a flash of lightning, p.

82.

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VIII. CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE.... 85

IX. DOUBLE MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.................................

Wilhelmina to be married out of hand.

gland shall say Yes or say No, p. 90.

Crisis First: En-

Dubourgay strikes a light for the English Court, 93.

Wilhelmina to be married out of hand. Crisis Second: En-

gland shall have said No, 95.

Wilhelmina to be married out of hand. Crisis Third: Maj-

esty himself will choose, then, 97.

How Friedrich, Prince of Baireuth, came to be the Man,

after all, 97.

Double Marriage, on the edge of shipwreck, flies off a kind

of Carrier Pigeon, or Noah's Dove, to England, with cry

for help, 102.

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BOOK VII.

FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE PROJECT.

FEBRUARY-NOVEMBER, 1730.

I. ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN....... 103

Majesty and Crown-Prince with him make a run to Dres-

den, p. 103.

How Villa was received in England, 105.

Excellency Hotham arrives in Berlin, 109.

II. LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNA-

VAILING.............................

A Peep into the Nosti-Grumkow Correspondence caught up

in St. Mary Axe, p. 113.

The Hotham Dispatches, 120.

Second and last Peep into the Nosti-Grumkow Correspond-

ence caught up in St. Mary Axe, 123.

His Majesty gets sight of the St. Mary Axe Documents, but

nothing follows from it, 126.

St. Peter's Church in Berlin has an Accident, 133.

111

VI. JOURNEY HOMEWARD FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON

JOURNEY HOMEWARD..........

175

Ludwigsburg in 1730, p. 176.

Catastrophe on Journey homeward, 185.