[2] This Church being destroy'd by Lightning in 1730, is magnificently rebuilt. The 21st of August 1734, the new Spire of it, which had been 4 Years erecting, and was carry'd up to the Height of about 190 Feet, fell at 9 o'clock at Night upon the Roof of the Church, whereby that and the neighbouring Houses suffer'd very great Damage. How it happen'd, no body yet knows; some say it was caus'd by Thunder, others by an Earthquake, and some will have it that it fell down of its own accord.
[3] This House is no longer the Governour's; for the King, who has caused great Additions to be made to it, has given it to the Prince Royal, and it goes by the Name of the Prince Royal's Palace. The Governour lives at present in the Street Royale, the King having purchas'd the fine House of Catsch there purposely for the Governour's Residence.
[4] This Prince died at Schwedt, Dec. 19, 1711. He left two Sons, one of whom was marry'd in 1734, to the Princess Dorothea-Sophia, the King of Prussia's fourth Daughter, then about fifteen Years of age. So that his Majesty, who had six Daughters, married four of them within the space of four Years, and has now but two more to dispose of.
[5] Her Name is Jean Charlotte, and she is the youngest Sister of Prince Leopold of Anhalt Dessau, being the Daughter of the Prince John-George II. by Henrietta Catherine, Daughter of Frederic-Henry Prince of Orange.
[6] Since the Original was publish'd, this Ward has been lengthen'd two thirds. There is one Street so long, that in this respect there are few that equal it: 'tis as strait as a Line; and terminates in an Oval, surrounded with very fine Houses. A new Ward is also erected at the End of that call'd the New Town; from whence it ranges behind Frederic-Stadt. Here most of the chief Nobility are building Hotels or Palaces, rather than Houses. In a word, if the Number of the Inhabitants of Berlin was proportionable to that of the Houses, it would be the finest, and the most flourishing Town in all Germany.
[7] He married (in June 1733,) the Princess Elizabeth-Christina of Brunswic-Lunenburgh, and Bevern, Daughter of Ferdinand-Albert Duke of Brunswic-Lunenburgh, and Bevern, Field-Marshal General of the Armies of the Emperor and Empire: and Presumptive Heir to the Duke Regent of Brunswic-Lunenburg Wolfembuttle.
[8] This was his Royal Highness, now Prince of Wales. All Europe, in short, thought, as did the Poets of that Time; and every one in general mark'd out the Princess for this Prince. It was then too the Desire of both the Queens; and the Princess herself seem'd to have been brought up in that Notion. But when 'twas least of all expected, certain Reasons of State cancell'd all these Views; and the King of Prussia thought fit to marry his eldest Daughter in 1731, to the Hereditary Prince of Brandenburg-Bareith: as King George II. of Great Britain, in 1756, thought fit to marry his eldest Son to her Highness, Augusta, youngest Sister of the present Duke of Saxe-Gotha.
[9] The Marriage was actually celebrated between them, in July 1733.
[10] The fourth married in 1734, to the King's Cousin, the Margrave of Brandenburgh-Schwedt.
[11] This Prince died in 1731. His eldest Son, the Margrave Charles, succeeded him in the Grand Mastership of the Order of St. John; and had his Regiment of Foot in the Service of Prussia. Prince Frederic, his Royal Highness's second Son, had his Regiment in the Service of the States-General of the United Provinces; and the Count de Truchsses-Walbourgh, a Major-General, had his Regiment of Horse. He was sent to compliment Lewis XV. upon his Coronation; and afterwards on the same Commission to the Emperor at Prague. His Wit and Politeness were applauded at both those Courts.