As soon as he return’d to _Berlin_, he sent for my Brother and me from _Lunenburg_, for fear lest my Mother, who was a _Lutheran_, should persuade us to embrace that Religion. Next year he establish’d an Academy, into which he gave Orders for our Entrance. The View of this Establishment was to educate the young Nobility of the Court, in a manner suitable to their Extraction. The King had the Nomination of those that were to be admitted into this Academy, and Care had been taken to furnish it with the best Masters in all the Arts and Sciences. The Expence of the Students there were very moderate, the King having taken upon him to pay the Extraordinaries. This illustrious School, which was then call’d, _The Academy of Princes_, has lost very much of its former Splendor. I found the Court of _Berlin_ in the same State as when I left it. The Count _de Wartemberg_ was still in the highest Favor; and the Count _de Barfous_, the only Man who had presum’d for some time to make head against the Minister, had at length been oblig’d to retire to his Estate; but what made his Banishment from Court the more tolerable to him, was a Pension which the King allow’d him of 20,000 Crowns. His Post of Velt-Marshal was given to M. _de Wartensleben_, Lieutenant-General of the Emperor’s Troops, and General of those of the Duke of _Saxe Gotha_. This was also a Creature of the Prime Minister; yet he had Honor and Honesty enough to oppose him on Occasions, where he thought the Welfare of the State was concern’d. The Count _de Lottum_, who had been involv’d in the Disgrace of my Father-in-law, and whose Office of Grand Marshal had been conferr’d on the Count _de Witgenstein_, retain’d a certain Air of Favor in his Disgrace, as did also the Count _de Barfous_. The King had given him the Government of _Wesel_, to which he retir’d; and as he could not avoid doing justice to his Merit and Fidelity, he gave him the Command of the Troops design’d for the _Netherlands_. He was charg’d with the Blockade of _Rhinberg_, a Place in the Electorate of _Cologn_, which the _French_ then possess’d, under color of being that Elector’s auxiliary Forces. The Town surrendring in a little time, he undertook the Blockade of _Guelders_, which made a part of the _Spanish Netherlands_, and was yielded to us by the Peace of _Utrecht_. The taking of these two important Places in the midst of Winter, and the Behaviour of the Count _de Lottum_, who notwithstanding the Severity of the Season, and the Treatment he had received from Court, took all the Care possible for the Preservation of the King’s Troops, made him so much extoll’d at Court, as was mortifying to the Prime Minister.