there is not a word said), for about a week more.
Voltaire, directly on getting back to Berlin, "resumes the thread
of his journal" to Secretary Amelot; that is, writes him another
long Letter:--

VOLTAIRE (from Berlin, 3d October, 1743) TO SECRETARY AMELOT.

"... The King of Prussia told me at Baireuth, on the 13th or 14th
of last month, He was glad our King had sent the Kaiser money;"--
useful that, at any rate; Noailles's 6,000 pounds would not go far.
"That he thought M. le Marechal de Noailles's explanation [of a
certain small rumor, to the disadvantage of Noailles in reference
to the Kaiser] was satisfactory: 'but,' added he, 'it results from
all your secret motions that you are begging Peace from everybody,
and there may have been something in this rumor, after all.'

"He then told me he was going over to Anspach, to see what could be
done for the Common Cause [Kaiser's and Ours]; that he expected to
meet the Bishop of Wurzburg there; and would try to stir the
Frankish and Swabian Circles into some kind of Union. And, at
setting off [from Baireuth, September 16th, on this errand], he
promised his Brother-in-law the Margraf, He would return with great
schemes afoot, and even with great success;" which proved
otherwise, to a disappointing degree.

"... The Margraf of Anspach did say he would join a Union of
Princes in favor of the Kaiser, if Prussia gave example. But that
was all. The Bishop of Wurzburg," a feeble old creature, "never
appeared at Anspach, nor even sent an apology; and Seckendorf, with
the Imperial Army"--Seckendorf, caged up at Wembdingen (whom