MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"1. This Bassecour, or Backyard, seems to be the gentleman that
has charge of fattening the capons and turkeys for their
High Mightinesses?

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"2. Is it not clear that the Peace Party will infallibly carry it,
in Holland,--since Bassecour, one of the most determined for War,
begins to speak of Peace? Is it not clear that France shows vigor
and wisdom?

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"2. I admire the wisdom of France; but God preserve me from ever
imitating it!

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"3. In these circumstances, if your Majesty took the tone of a
Master, gave example to the Princes of the Empire in assembling an
Army of Neutrality,--would not you snatch the sceptre of Europe
from the hands of the English, who now brave you, and speak in an
insolent revolting manner of your Majesty, as do, in Holland also,
the party of the Bentincks, the Fagels, the Opdams? I have myself
heard them, and am reporting nothing but what is very true.

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"3. This would be finer in an ode than in actual reality. I disturb
myself very little about what the Dutch and English say, the rather
as I understand nothing of those dialects (PATOIS) of theirs.

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.