for, either!--

What does the English Court think of that? Dated "Berlin, 13th
May:" it is the same day when his Majesty's matured Proposals,
"changed thrice or oftener within the forty-eight hours," were
handed to Hotham for transmission to his Court. An interesting
Leather Bag, this Ordinary from Berlin. Reichenbach, we observe,
will get his share of it some ten days after that alarming rebuke
from Townshend; and it will relieve the poor wretch from his worst
terrors: "Go on with your eavesdroppings as before, you alarmed
wretch!"--There does one Degenfeld by and by, a man of better
quality (and on special haste, as we shall see) come and supersede
poor Nosti, and send him home:--there they give Nosti some
exiguous Pension, with hint to disappear forevermore. Which he
does; leaving only these St.-Mary-Axe Documents for his Lifemark
in the History of Mankind.

What the English Answer to his Majesty's Proposals of Berlin, May
13th, was, we have already seen;--dated "London, 22d May,"
probably few hours after the Courier arrived. Hotham, well
anticipating what it would be, had already, as we phrased it,
"laid down the bellows;" left the Negotiation, as essentially
extinct;--and was preparing for the "Camp at Radewitz," Britannic
Majesty being anxious to hear what Friedrioh Wilhelm and August
the Strong have on hand there.

"The King of Prussia's unsteadiness and want of resolution,"
writes Hotham (Berlin, 20th May), "will hinder him from being
either very useful to his friends, or very formidable to his
enemies." And from the same place, just about quitting it for