He has a formidable Army, ready for fight; a Treasury or Army-chest in good order.

George I.seconds, according to bargain; shuts the Catholic Church at Zelle in his Luneburg Country, in like fashion; Dutch, too, and Swiss will endorse the matter, should it grow too serious.

All which, involving some diplomacy and correspondence, is managed with the due promptitude, moreover.

[Church of Zelle shut up, 4th November; Minden, 28th November; Monastery of Hamersleben, 3d December, &c.

(Putter, _Historische Entwickelung der hautigen Staatsverfassung des Teutschen Reichs,_ Gottingen, 1788, ii.
384, 390).] And so certain doors are locked; and Friedrich Wilhelm's word, unalterable as gravitation, has gone forth.