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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. VI. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IV
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"Prussian Majesty much pleased with English Answers" to the Yes-or-No question: "will send a Minister to our Court about the time his Britannic Majesty may think of coming over to his German Dominions.

Would Finkenstein (Head Tutor), or would Knyphausen (distinguished Official here), be the agreeable man ?" "Either," answer the English; "either is good." BERLIN, SAME DATE.

"Queen sent for me just now; is highly content with the state of things.

'I have now,' said her Majesty, 'the pleasure to tell you that I am free, God be blessed, of all the anguish I have labored under for some time past, which was so great that I have several times been on the point of sending for you to procure my Brother's protection for my Son, who, I thought, ran the greatest danger from the artifices of Seckendorf and'"-- Poor Queen! NOV, 16th.

"Queen told me: When the Court was at Wusterhausen," two months ago, hunting partridges and wild swine, [Fassmann, p.


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