The rest of his Letter is all in the Opposition strain (almost as if from his place in Parliament, only far briefer than is usual "within these walls"); and winds up with a glance at Victor Amadeus's strange feat, or rather at the Son's feat done upon Victor, over in Sardinia; preceded by this interjectionary sentence on a Prince nearer home:-- "As to the Prince-Royal, depend on it he will do whatever is required of him [marry anybody you like &c.], if you give him more elbow-room, for that is whither he aims .-- Not a bad stroke that, of the King of Sardinia"-- Grand news of the day, at that time; now somewhat forgotten, and requiring a word from us: Old King Victor Amadeus of Sardinia had solemnly abdicated in favor of his Son; went, for a twelvemonth or more, into private felicity with an elderly Lady-love whom he had long esteemed the first of women;--tired of such felicity, after a twelvemonth; demanded his crown back, and could not get it! Lady-love and he are taken prisoners; lodged in separate castles: [2d September, 1730 abdicated, went to Chambery; reclaims, is locked in Rivoli, 8th October, 1731 (news of it just come to Schulenburg); dies there, 31st October, 1732, his 67th year.] and the wrath of the proud old gentleman is Olympian in character,--split an oak table, smiting it while he spoke (say the cicerones);--and his silence, and the fiery daggers he looks, are still more emphatic.

But the young fellow holds out; you cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your Majesty! say his new Ministers.

Is and will continue King.

"Not a bad stroke of him," thinks Schulenburg,----"especially if his Father meant to play him the same trick," that is, clap him in prison.

Not a bad stroke;--which perhaps there is another that could imitate, "if HIS Papa gave him the opportunity! But THIS Papa will take good care; and the Queen will not forget the Sardinian business, when he talks again of abdicating," as he does when in ill-humor .-- "But now had not we better have been friends with England, should war rise upon that Sardinian business?
General Schulenburg,"-- the famed Venetian Field-marshal, bruiser of the Turks in Candia, [Same who was beaten by Charles XII.