Majesty, while Crown-Prince, when he first got his regiment from Papa, had found this Creutz "Auditor" in it; a poor but handsome fellow, with perhaps seven shillings a week to live upon; but with such a talent for arranging, for reckoning and recording, in brief for controlling finance, as more and more charmed the royal mind.

[Mauvillon ("Elder Mauvillon," ANONYMOUS), _Histoire de Frederic Guillaume I.,_ par M.de M--( Amsterdam et Leipzig, 1741), i.47.A vague flimsy compilation;--gives abundant "State-Papers" (to such as want them), and echoes of old Newspaper rumor.

Very copious on Creutz.] One of Majesty's first acts was to appoint him Finance-Minister; [4th May, 1713: Preuss, i.349.

n.] and there he continued steady, not to be overset by little flaws of wind like this of the Spectre-Scullion's raising.

It is certain he did, himself, become rich; and helped well to make his Majesty so.