[Pollnitz, _ Memoiren, _ i.

310.]--Now here is the inexactitude, say Modern Doctors of History; an error no less than threefold.1.Elector Friedrich was indeed advised, in cipher, by his agent at Vienna, to write in person to--"Who is that cipher, then ?" asks Elector Friedrich, rather puzzled.
At Vienna that cipher was meant for the Kaiser; but at Berlin they take it for Pater Wolf; and write accordingly, and are answered with readiness and animation.2.Pater Wolf was not official Confessor, but was a Jesuit in extreme favor with the Kaiser, and by birth a nobleman, sensible to human decorations.3.He accepted no bribe, nor was any sent; his bribe was the pleasure of obliging a high gentleman who condescended to ask, and possibly the hope of smoothing roads for St.
Ignatius and the Black Militia, in time coming.

And THUS at last, and not otherwise than thus, say exact Doctors, did Pater Wolf do the thing.
[G.

A.H.Stenzel, _ Geschichte des Preussischen Staats _ (Hamburg, 1841), iii.

104 _ (Berliner Monatschrift, _ year 1799); &c.] Or might not the actual death of poor King Carlos II.