This glimpse into the distracted effete interior of the poor old Reich and its Politics, with friends of ours concerned there, let it be welcome to the reader.

[_Leopoldi von Anhalt-Dessau Leben_ (by Ranfft), p.

127; Buchholz, i.

131.] Friedrich Wilhelm was without concern in this War, or in what had led to it.

Practical share in the Polish Election (after that preliminary theoretic program of the Kaiser's and Czarina's went to smoke) Friedrich Wilhelm steadily refused to take: though considerable offers were made him on both sides,--offer of West Preussen (Polish part of Prussia, which once was known to us) on the French side.