since; and passed above an hour in colloquy with Seckendorf and
me, in sight both of English Hotham and Dutch Ginkel without
speaking to them.

"It was true enough what Nosti heard of the Queen's fair speeches,
and Hotham's, to the Friend of Nosti. But it is all ended:
the Queen's, weeks ago, being in vain: Hotham too, after some
civilities, seems now indifferent. 'ENFIN ['Afin' he always writes
it, copying the indistinct gurgle of his own horse-dialect]--AFIN
FILOUTERIE TOUT PURE' (whole of it thimblerig, on their part).

"Admirable story, that of Prince Fred's amourette [sent to the
cesspool by us, herald of Reichenbach thither]: let his Majesty
know it, by all means. What the Duchess of Kendal [lean tall
female in expensive brocades, with gilt prayer-books, visible in
the body to Nosti at that time], what the Duchess of Kendal says
to you is perfectly just; and as the Princess Wilhelmina is very
ill-looking [LAIDE,--how dare you say so, dog?], I believe she
will have a bad life of it, the Prince of Wales being accustomed
to daintier meats. Yes truly, she will, as the Duchess says, 'need
to be wiser than Solomon' to conciliate the humors down there (LA
BAS) with the genius of his Prussian Majesty and Queen.--'As for
your Princess Amelia, depend upon it, while the Commandant of
Potsdam lives, she will never get hold of the Prince-Royal, though
he is so furiously taken with the Britannic Majesties.'"

[Continues; in auswer to a Nosti "Caw! Caw!" which we omit.]

BERLIN, 2d MAY.--"Wish you had not told the King so positively
that the English say, it shall be Double Match or none.