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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. VI. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER VI
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Some distracted fractions of Business Correspondence with this Bar, in _Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, _--unintelligible as usual there.] "to set up a Wax-Bleachery at Cassel:"-- and the said Count von Bar was off with it, Testamentary Paper and all; gone to the REICHSHOFRATH at Vienna, supreme Judges, in the Empire, of such matters.

Who accordingly issued him a "Protection," to start with: so that when the Hanover people attempted to lay hold of the questionable wax-bleaching Count, at Frankfurt-on-Mayn,--secretly sending "a lieutenant and twelve men" for that object,--he produces his Protection Paper, and the lieutenant and twelve men had to hasten home again.

[Ibid.] Count von Bar had to be tried at law,--never ask with what results;--and this itself was a long story.

Then as to the other properties of the poor Duchess, question arises, Are they ALLODIA, or are they FEUDA,--that is to say, shall the Son have them, or the Daughter?
In short, there was no end to questions.
Friedrich Wilhelm has an Envoy at Hanover, one Kannegiesser, laboring at Hanover, the second of such he has been obliged to send; who finds plenty of employment in that matter.

"My Brother the COMODIANT quietly put his Father's Will in his pocket, I have heard; and paid no regard to it (except what he was compelled to pay, by Chesterfield and others): will he do the like with his poor Mother's Will ?" Patience, your Majesty: he is not a covetous man, but a self-willed and a proud,--always conscious to himself that he is the soul of honor, this poor Brother King! Nay withal, before these testamentary bickerings are settled, here has a new Joint-Heritage fallen: on which may rise discussions.


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