Roloff's prognostics are not so encouraging as the King had hoped.

Surely this King "never took or coveted what was not his; kept true to his marriage-vow, in spite of horrible examples everywhere; believed the Bible, honored the Preachers, went diligently to Church, and tried to do what he understood God's commandments were ?" To all which Roloff, a courageous pious man, answers with discreet words and shakings of the head, "Did I behave ill, then; did I ever do injustice ?" Roloff mentions Baron Schlubhut the defalcating Amtmann, hanged at Konigsberg without even a trial.

"He had no trial; but was there any doubt he had justice?
A public thief, confessing he had stolen the taxes he was set to gather; insolently offering, as if that were all, to repay the money, and saying, It was not MANIER (good manners) to hang a nobleman!" Roloff shakes his head, Too violent, your Majesty, and savoring of the tyrannous.

The poor King must repent.
"Well,--is there anything more?
Out with it, then; better now than too late!"-- Much oppression, forcing men to build in Berlin.--"Oppression?
was it not their benefit, as well as Berlin's and the Country's?
I had no interest in it other.

Derschau, you who managed it ?" and his Majesty turned to Derschau.