Then the King looked at the Clergyman, beckoned him near, and asked, Whose child it was?
(Herr von Marwitz of Friedersdorf's.)--'Is that the General ?' 'No, the Chamberlain.' The King made no answer: he could not bear Chamberlains, whom he considered as idle fellows.

The new horses were yoked; away they went.

All day the peasants had been talking of the King, how he would bring this and that into order, and pull everybody over the coals who was not agreeable to them.
"Afterwards it turned out that all Clergymen were in the habit of giving 10 thalers to the coachman Pfund, when the King lodged with them: the former Clergyman of Dolgelin had regularly done it; but the new one, knowing nothing of the custom, had omitted it last year;--and that was the reason why the fellow had so pushed along all day that he could pass Dolgelin before sunset, and get his 10 thalers in Muncheberg from the Burgermeister there." 2.

JANUARY, 1785.

"The second time I saw the King was at the Carnival of Berlin in 1785.