BERLIN, 25th APRIL. "King declared to Seckendorf yesterday again,
He might write to the Kaiser, That while he lived, nothing should
ever part his Majesty from the Kaiser and his Cause; that the
French dare not attack Luxembourg, as is threatened; and if they
do--! Upon which Seckendorf despatched a Courier to Vienna.

"As to Hotham, he explains himself upon nothing,"--stalks about
with his nose in the air, as if there were nothing farther to be
explained. "I spoke yesterday of the Single Match, Wilhelmina and
Prince of Wales; King answered, even of the Single Match, Devil
fly away with it!"--or a still coarser phrase.

'Meanwhile the Queen, though at the end of her eighth month, is
cheery as a fish in water; [Wilhelmina has this too, in a
disfigured state (i. 233).] and always forms grand project of
totally ruining Seckendorf, by Knyphausen's and other help.'
"Hotham yesterday, glancing at Nosti no doubt, said to the SIEUR
DE POTSDAM [cant phrase for the King], 'That great Princes were
very unlucky to have ministers that durst not show themselves in
good society; for the result was, they sent nothing but false news
and rumors picked up in coffee-houses.'"

"Coffee-houses?" answers Reichenbach, by and by: "Reichenbach is
in English society of the first distinction, and receives visits
from Lords and Dukes. This all the world knows"--to be nothing
like the case, as Townshend too has occasionally mentioned.

At any rate, continues Grumkow, "the Queen's Husband said, aside,
to Nosti's Friend, 'I see he is glancing at Reichenbach; but he