"The Crown-Prince manifests in this tender age [his seventh year] an uncommon capacity; nay we may say, something quite extraordinary (_etwas ganz Ausserordentliches_).

He is a most alert and vivacious Prince; he has fine and sprightly manners; and shows a certain kindly sociality, and so affectionate a disposition that all things may be hoped of him.
The French Lady who [under Roucoulles] has had charge of his learning hitherto, cannot speak of him without enthusiasm.

_'C'est un esprit ange'lique_ (a little angel),' she is wont to say.

He takes up, and learns, whatever is put before him, with the greatest facility." [Van Loen, _Kleine Schriften,_ ii.

27 (as cited in Rodenbeck, No.iv.