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Article Eleventh stipulates: "All subjects and servants of his Majesty the King of Prussia who hold bonds of the Saxon OBER-STEUER-EINNAHME shall be paid in full, capital and interest, at the times, and to the amount, specified in said STEUER-SCHEINE or Bonds." That is Article Eleventh.
"That Hirsch, having things of his own in view with the money, sent no STEUER-SCHEINE from Dresden, nothing but vague lying talk instead of STEUER: so that Voltaire's suspicions naturally kindling, he stopped payment of the Paris Draft, and ordered Hirsch to come home at once.
'Hm, Steuer-Scheine, and the Jew Hirsch to be Court-Jeweller, you say? thinks the King, that Sunday night; but locks the rumor in his Royal mind, he, for his part; or dismisses it as incredible: 'There ought to be impervious vessels too, among the porous! Voltaire notices nothing particular, or nothing that he speaks of as particular.
Black Care devouring Monseigueur; but nothing definite; except the fact too evident, That Hirsch does not send or bring the smallest shadow of Steuer-Scheine, 'Peltries, or 'Diamonds, we mean, or any value whatever for that Paris Bill of ours, payable shortly, and which he has already got cashed in Dresden.
The malpractice seems to have proved menaceable in that manner; nor was any new arrangement made upon it, no change, till the Steuer-Scheine, by their gradual terms, were all paid either in real money or imaginary, and thus, in the course of years, the thing burnt to the socket, and went out."
Voltaire's rash Adventure, dangerous Navigation and gradual Wreck, in this Forbidden Sea of Steuer-Scheine, will become conceivable to readers, on study diligent enough of the following Documents and select Details: "POTSDAM, Monday, 9th November, 1750. "I earnestly request Mr. "Hirsch, in that NARRATIVE, describes himself as a young innocent creature.
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