Gulielmian

— Now, concerning the Gulielmian or Bavarian line ther are but 4 living, wherof two are Churchmen, viz. the Archbiſhop of Colen [Maximilian Henry of Bavaria], and the Biſhop of Frizing [Albrecht Sigismund of Bavaria], which can leave no iſſue behind; […]

— It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—the Court Journal on the Saturday,—and the Post and Herald on the following Monday,—the Constitutionnel on the Friday ensuing,—the Allgemeine Zeitung within ten days,—the Ispahan Courier in three weeks,—and the New York Courant in five;—the New Monthly will chew the end of the anecdote in its lion’s mouth;—the old Gentleman’s Magazine bolt it without a single wry face;—the Annual Register immortalize the record;—and forty years hence, the Georgian, or Gulielmian Era, furbish it up again for the admiration of our grand children.