But the high-flying Bishop did not consent, gave no definite answer; and so the matter lay,--like an unsettled extremely irritating paltry little matter,--at the time Friedrich Wilhelm died.
The Gazetteers and public knew little about these particulars, or had forgotten them again; but at the Prussian Court they were in lively remembrance.

What the young Friedrich's opinion about them had been we gather from this succinct notice of the thing, written seven or eight years afterwards, exact in all points, and still carrying a breath of the old humor in it.

"A miserable Bishop of Liege thought it a proud thing to insult the late King.

Some subjects of Herstal, which belongs to Prussia, had revolted; the Bishop gave them his protection.

Colonel Kreutzen was sent to Liege, to compose the thing by treaty; credentials with him, full power, and all in order.