Next day, the big scene which Ziebura had in her AW biography happens. First, Fritz has to cut the meat again, then FW wants to talk again about whether or not hunting is a sin. Freylinghausen tries to be diplomatic but makes it pretty clear that he thinks while God is okay with killing animals for nourishment, hurting them for fun is not cool.
Rex turned quiet for a while and then he exploded: If I could prove to him from the holy bible that hunting was a sin, he would promise never to use a gun again to shoot deer with it. I couldn't do anything else but point to the difference I already had made, and someone pointed to the old habit of hunting as described in Psalm 22, where Christ gets compared to a hind hunted early. Another tried to excuse par force hunting by saying that a deer shot would sometimes suffer longer than one which the dogs killed with their biting.
E: I can't judge this since I've never attended par force hunting; but I am sure that it's not right to torment an animal without need. I recalled the ox huntings which sometimes take place in Halle, and Rex asked who was doing this and where it happened and similar questions.
The other Prince provided a charming interlude when he started to kiss the King's hands and to stroke his cheeks. As R. asked: "You surely want something from me, don't you?"
Ille: Yes, Papa."
R: And what?
P: Please don't hang the long fellow who has run away.
R. smiled at that, but didn't reply in the positive. Regina signalled that she approved of this intercession. Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow supported the little Prince. Whereupon Rex started to kiss the Prince and hold him in his arms for a long time. As the Queen without Rex noticing this has gestured at me with her head and arms to say something, I then said to the little Prince: "Your Highness, your advocacy will undoubtedly weigh stronger with your father's majesty than that of ten other supplicants. For mercy is always more glorious than judgment." This seemed please the Queen. Whereupon the King said: "It is a difficult case."
Ego: Blood crimes may not be pardonable, but in cases like this on, your Majesty could surely put mercy before judgment. To which the two Generals at my right and left side agreed. N.B. The Prince had been supposed to make his plea days earlier instructus a matre Regina, but as he was afraid that Papa, as he said, might bet very angry, he had avoided it and only offered caresses, despite the fact Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow tried to prepare the way for him with questions and speeches like these: "The Prince surely wants something if he caresses you like that." item: "The Prince surely weighs something in his heart which he wants to say." it. "Just say what it is. If it's something good, we all will help you and plead with you." But he couldn't push himself to do it. Whereupon Regina threatened him after dinner that if he wouldn't say something this time, he'd be whipped, as she told me the following day, and said she was relying on the fact I was present and could add a word or two.
Princeps then had asked Oberhofmeisterin Kameke: What was happening when they hanged someone? Whether they put something around the neck? Whether this was hurting people? Whether one died of it? And then he stayed the course. But one could guess from the entire behaviour of the King that the plea would not have been in vain. He mentioned the next day (so I can describe this here anticipando), for then the King said: That he had pardoned the villain, and asked the Prince: how the fellow should be punished if he wasn't hanged? Whereupon the Prince said: He should be whipped. The Prince was immediately reminded to thank his Majesty, which he did by kissing his hand.
That's pretty much it. The next day, Freylinghausen talks some more theology with FW who has been through a blood letting and is relatively calm, and presents religious books for the entire royal family as farewell presents. FW, SD, the girls and AW say thank you most graciously, but Fritz isn't there, so SD says she'll accept Freylinghausen's present (a collection of Francke's sermons about the apostle letters) for him and give it him. That's also the occasion where she tells Freylinghausen the backstory of AW's plea from the previous day.
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Rex turned quiet for a while and then he exploded: If I could prove to him from the holy bible that hunting was a sin, he would promise never to use a gun again to shoot deer with it. I couldn't do anything else but point to the difference I already had made, and someone pointed to the old habit of hunting as described in Psalm 22, where Christ gets compared to a hind hunted early. Another tried to excuse par force hunting by saying that a deer shot would sometimes suffer longer than one which the dogs killed with their biting.
E: I can't judge this since I've never attended par force hunting; but I am sure that it's not right to torment an animal without need. I recalled the ox huntings which sometimes take place in Halle, and Rex asked who was doing this and where it happened and similar questions.
The other Prince provided a charming interlude when he started to kiss the King's hands and to stroke his cheeks. As R. asked: "You surely want something from me, don't you?"
Ille: Yes, Papa."
R: And what?
P: Please don't hang the long fellow who has run away.
R. smiled at that, but didn't reply in the positive. Regina signalled that she approved of this intercession. Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow supported the little Prince. Whereupon Rex started to kiss the Prince and hold him in his arms for a long time. As the Queen without Rex noticing this has gestured at me with her head and arms to say something, I then said to the little Prince: "Your Highness, your advocacy will undoubtedly weigh stronger with your father's majesty than that of ten other supplicants. For mercy is always more glorious than judgment." This seemed please the Queen. Whereupon the King said: "It is a difficult case."
Ego: Blood crimes may not be pardonable, but in cases like this on, your Majesty could surely put mercy before judgment. To which the two Generals at my right and left side agreed. N.B. The Prince had been supposed to make his plea days earlier instructus a matre Regina, but as he was afraid that Papa, as he said, might bet very angry, he had avoided it and only offered caresses, despite the fact Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow tried to prepare the way for him with questions and speeches like these: "The Prince surely wants something if he caresses you like that." item: "The Prince surely weighs something in his heart which he wants to say." it. "Just say what it is. If it's something good, we all will help you and plead with you." But he couldn't push himself to do it. Whereupon Regina threatened him after dinner that if he wouldn't say something this time, he'd be whipped, as she told me the following day, and said she was relying on the fact I was present and could add a word or two.
Princeps then had asked Oberhofmeisterin Kameke: What was happening when they hanged someone? Whether they put something around the neck? Whether this was hurting people? Whether one died of it? And then he stayed the course. But one could guess from the entire behaviour of the King that the plea would not have been in vain. He mentioned the next day (so I can describe this here anticipando), for then the King said: That he had pardoned the villain, and asked the Prince: how the fellow should be punished if he wasn't hanged? Whereupon the Prince said: He should be whipped. The Prince was immediately reminded to thank his Majesty, which he did by kissing his hand.
That's pretty much it. The next day, Freylinghausen talks some more theology with FW who has been through a blood letting and is relatively calm, and presents religious books for the entire royal family as farewell presents. FW, SD, the girls and AW say thank you most graciously, but Fritz isn't there, so SD says she'll accept Freylinghausen's present (a collection of Francke's sermons about the apostle letters) for him and give it him. That's also the occasion where she tells Freylinghausen the backstory of AW's plea from the previous day.