This is a true incident of the Prince's history, though a small one.
Incident SECOND is of slightly more significance; and intimates, not being quite alone in its kind, a questionable habit or method the Crown-Prince must have had of dealing with Clerical Persons hereabouts when they proved troublesome.

Here are no fewer than three such Persons, or Parsons, of the Ruppin Country, who got mischief by him.

How the first gave offence shall be seen, and how he was punished: offences of the second and the third we can only guess to have been perhaps pulpit-rebukes of said punishments: perhaps general preaching against military levities, want of piety, nay open sinfulness, in thoughtless young men with cockades.

Whereby the thoughtless young men were again driven to think of nocturnal charivari?
We will give the story in Dr.
Busching's own words, who looks before and after to great distances, in a way worth attending to.

The Herr Doctor, an endless Collector and Compiler on all manner of subjects, is very authentic always, and does not want for natural sense: but he is also very crude,--and here and there not far from stupid, such his continual haste, and slobbery manner of working up those Hundred and odd Volumes of his:--[See his Autobiography, which forms _Beitrage,_ B.vi.