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'Shame on it! cried Landgraf Wilhelm aloud, and many others less aloud, Klinggraf and King Friedrich among them: 'What a Carteret! The Landgraf turned away with indignation from perfidious England; and began forming quite opposite connections. 'You shall not even have my hired 6,000, you perfidious!

This is Menzel's account; in other words, the Saxon Envoy at Vienna's, stolen by Menzel. July 26th, it appears, Klinggraf having applied to Kaunitz the day before, who noticed a certain flurry in him, and had answered carelessly, "Audience?

Klinggraf strode through the Antechamber, "visibly astonished," say on-lookers, at such an Answer had. Friedrich, on arrival of report from Klinggraf, and without waiting for the Menzel side of the scenes, sees that the thing is settled.

Answer comes from Klinggraf that same night. Once more, an Answer almost worse than could have been expected. POTSDAM, "26th August," 1756. "You have seen the Paper I sent to Klinggraf. So that the sword alone can cut this Gordian Knot.

Imperial Presence held in its hand a snip of Paper, carefully composed by Kaunitz from the data, and read these words: "DIE BEDENKLICHEN UMSTANDE, The questionable circumstances of the Time have moved me to consider as indispensably necessary those measures which, for my own security and for defence of my Allies, I am taking, and which otherwise do not tend the least towards injury of anybody whatsoever;" and adding no syllable more, gave a sign with her hand, intimating to Klinggraf that the Interview was done.

Draw up memorial of that, Monsieur Klinggraf; and send us the supercilious No-Answer: till which arrive we do not cross the Frontier, but are already everywhere on march to it, in an industrious, cunningly devised, evident and yet impenetrably mysterious manner.

"Those unwonted Armaments, Camps in Bohmen, Camps in Mahren, and military movements and preparations," Klinggraf is to say, "have caused anxiety in her Majesty's peaceable Neighbor of Prussia; who desires always to continue in peace; and who requests hereby a word of assurance from her Majesty, that these his anxieties are groundless."

Substantial clear ashlar Street, miles or half-miles long; straight as a line: Friedrich Wilhelm found it scrag and quagmire; and left it what the Tourist sees, by these hard methods. Thus Herr Privy-Councillor Klinggraf too, Nussler's next neighbor: he did not want to build; far from it; but was obliged, on worse terms than Nussler.

Their entire Army at present is under 20,000; but, in the course of next Winter, they expect to have it 40,000. Shall be of that force, against Season 1757. No doubt Winterfeld's gatherings and communications had their uses at Potsdam, on his getting home from this Tour to Toplitz. Meanwhile, Klinggraf has had his Audience at Vienna; and has sped as ill as could have been expected.