My Mother continued very wavering till next day, when the Elector return’d as he had promis’d: And as ’tis not an easy matter to resist the Orders of one’s Sovereign, my Mother, tho’ still against a new Engagement in her heart, seemed however to consent to the Marriage, which in a few days after was celebrated, and honour’d with the presence of the Elector, who had the goodness to assure my Brother and me that it should not be the worse for us. Mean time all my Relations exclaim’d against my Mother, and when she return’d to _Berlin_ not a Soul of them went to see her. My Grandmother by my Father’s side was loudest in her Complaint; for her great Age and the Honour she had of attending the late Electoress, Mother to the Elector, made her take the freedom to tell that Prince her mind. She was in a passion with him even to a degree of Childishness, telling him that it griev’d her to the heart that she was not strong enough to twist the neck of the Man that he had given to her Daughter-in-Law for a Husband. The Elector to pacify her, promis’d her that he would be such a friend to M. _de Wesen_, that this Marriage instead of being a prejudice should be an advantage to us. And as soon as he had left her, he declared him Marshal of his Court. This Office obliging my Father-in-law to follow the Prince in his Travels, he left my Mother at _Berlin_, and carry’d me with him to _Konigsberg_, to shew me the Ceremony of the Elector’s Coronation. His Court was so numerous that upon the Road from _Berlin_ to _Konigsberg_, which is reckon’d fourscore _German_ Miles, there were no less than thirty thousand Hackney-Horses, besides those belonging to the Stables of the King and Princes. The King, who was excessively fond of Ceremony, omitted nothing that could be an addition to the splendor of his Coronation. This Ceremony cost him immense Sums of Money, and convinc’d Foreigners who came thither from a curiosity to see it, that our Court was inferior to few others for Magnificence. Tho’ one would think the preparations for such a solemn Festival must take up a tedious deal of time, yet the King’s Impatience hurry’d them so fast that every thing was ready by the eighteenth of _January_, about a Fortnight after the Arrival of the Court. The Proclamation for erecting _Prussia_ into a Kingdom was made two Days before the King’s Coronation, with the sound of the Cannon, and all the Bells of the City, by four Heralds at Arms in Mantles of blue Velvet with the Royal Arms thereon embroider’d, and riding upon Horses richly accouter’d, the Housings being of Silver-Brocade, sprinkled with Eagles and Coronets of Gold. They went with a very numerous Train to the chief Quarters of the City, and there made Proclamation in these terms: