His Official LETTERS from that scene are in print, this long while, though considerably forgotten; [_Anecdotes du Sejour du Roi de Suide a Bender, ou Lettres de M.le Baron de Fabrice pour servir d'elaircissement a l'Histoire de Charles XII._ (Hambourg, 1760, 8vo).] a little Volume, worth many big ones that have been published on that subject.

The same Fabrice, following Hanover afterwards, came across to London in due course; and there he did another memorable thing: made acquaintance with the Monsieur Arouet, then a young French Exile there, Arouet Junior ("LE JEUNE or L.J."), who,--by an ingenious anagram, contrived in his indignation at such banishment,--writes himself VOLTAIRE ever since; who has been publishing a HENRIADE, and doing other things.

Now it was by questioning this Fabrice, and industriously picking the memory of him clean, that M.de Voltaire wrote another book, much more of an "Epic" than Henri IV.,--a HISTORY, namely, OF CHARLES XII.; [See Voltaire, _OEuvres Completes_, ii.

149, xxx.

7, 127.