[Form of Song, very fashionable at Paris (see Barbier soepius) in
those years: "BIRIBI," I believe, is a kind of lottery-game.]

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"6. If you were but to march a body of troops to Cleves, do not you
awaken terror and respect, without apprehension that any one dare
make war on you? Is it not, on the contrary, the one method of
forcing the Dutch to concur, under your orders, in the pacification
of the Empire, and re-establishment of the Emperor, who will thus a
second time he indebted to you for his throne, and will aid in the
splendor of yours?

MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.
"6. Vous voulez qu'en vrai dieu de la machine,
"You will have me as theatre-god, then,
"J'arrive pour te denouement?
"Swoop in, and produce the catastrophe?
"Qu'aux Anglais, aux Pandours, a ce peuple insolent,
"J'aille donner la discipline?--
"Tame to sobriety those English, those Pandours, and obstreperous
people?
"Mais examinez mieux ma mine;
"Examine the look of me better;
"Je ne suis pas assez mechant!
"I have not surliness euough.

MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.
"7. Whatever resolution may be come to, will your Majesty deign to
confide it to me, and impart the result,--to your servant, to him
who desires to pass his life at your Court? May I have the honor to