"Berlin looks altogether warlike.

At Magdeburg they are busy making ovens to bake Ammunition-bread; Artillery is getting hauled out of the Arsenal here;" all is clangor, din of preparation.
"It is said the King will fall on Mecklenburg;" can at once, if he like.
"These intolerable usages from England [Seckendorf is rumored to have said], can your Majesty endure them forever?
Why not marry the Prince-Royal, at once, to another Princess, and have done with them!"-- or words to that effect, as reported by Court-rumor to her Majesty and Dubourgay.

And there is a Princess talked of for this Match, Russian Princess, little Czar's Sister (little Czar to have Wilhelmina, Double-Marriage to be with Russia, not with England); but the little Czar soon died, little Czar's Sister went out of sight, or I know not what happened, and only brief rumor came of that.
As for the Crown-Prince, he has not fallen desperate; no; but appears to have strange schemes in him, deep under cover.

"He has said to a confidant [Wilhelmina, it is probable], 'As to his ill-treatment, he well knew how to free himself of that [will fly to foreign parts, your Highness ?], and would have done so long since, were it not for his Sister, upon whom the whole weight of his Father's resentment would then fall.

Happen what will, therefore, he is resolved to share with her all the hardships which the King his Father may be pleased to put upon her." [Dubourgay, 11th August, 1729.] Means privately a flight to England, Dubourgay sees, and in a reticent diplomatic way is glad to see.
I possess near a dozen Hanoverian and Prussian Despatches upon this strange Business; but should shudder to inflict them on any innocent reader.