. Un vagabondo cortigiano; dalle memorie e lettere del barone Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. whichhis stern padre tenuto ostinatamente scostante. Il principe Lich-tenfeld recentemente era venuto a Berlino per rafforzare theAustrian partito, e, in un primo momento, nessuno ha notato come Pollnitzinsinuated stesso tra lui e Seckendorf, betweenGrumbkow, Anhalt, e Manteufel. Il principe Anhaltwishes per usare lui come una sorta di spy, scrisse quest'ultimo,poche settimane dopo Pollnitzs arrivo. Nel maggio Seckendorfnoted che parla con lui come poco come possibile, wellknowing Pollnitz per essere una doppia spia. Dopo l'uomo-teufel, ha continuato, come molti hon

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. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. whichhis stern father held obstinately aloof. Prince Lich-tenfeld had recently come to Berlin to reinforce theAustrian party, and, at first, no one noticed how Pollnitzinsinuated himself between him and Seckendorf, betweenGrumbkow, Anhalt, and Manteufel. Prince Anhaltwishes to use him as a sort of spy, wrote the latter, a few weeks after Pollnitzs arrival. In May Seckendorfnoted that he talks to him as little as possible, wellknowing Pollnitz to be a double spy. After Man-teufel, he continued, like many honest people, hadlaboured in vain to undermine Pollnitzs position atBerlin, the Dresden Court sought to win and use him.Briihl (the chief Minister) secured for him secretly anappointment as Chamberlain at Dresden, and occasionally, on one pretext or another, let him have considerablesums. This may sound much to the Barons discredit, butwe must remember that both Frederic himself and hissister Wilhelmina, in the worst days of their fatherstyranny, were thankful to receive money from the. WILHELMINA, MAKUKAVINE OF BAYREUTH. From a bujt in the Holienzollern Museum. 550] THE KINGS JESTER 551 Emperor through Grumbkow. We must not be un-necessarily hard on Pollnitz. In May died George Frederic Charles, Margrave ofBayreuth, and Wilhelmina of Prussias husband suc-ceeded his father in the Margravate. A month laterFrederic William despatched Pollnitz to the BayreuthCourt with his congratulations to his daughter on heraccession. Probably the monotonous hfe at Berlin was pallinga little upon Pollnitz, and he may himself have sug-gested the little trip. In any case Wilhelmina wasdelighted to see again the old acquaintance of her girl-hood ; who, with his lively gossip of all the Courts andhealth-resorts of Europe, was a great resource to us, and amused us very much in the dull days of mourning. Wilhelmina and the old Baron, as she called him, were sympathetic souls. The cultivated young Margra-

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