Je suis une personne de parole, qui pourra faire reussir ce que j'avance, pourvu que l'on se fie a moi.

Je vous le promets, et a present vous pouvez en avertir votre Cour; et je saurai tenir ma promesse.

Je suis toujours tout a vous, FREDERIC." [State-Paper Office: Prussian Despatches, vol.xli.

(enclosed in Sir Charles Hotham's Despatch, Berlin, 27th-16th May, 1730).] "Monsieur,--I believe it is of the last importance that I should write to you; and I am very sad to have things to say which I ought to conceal from all the earth.

But one must take that bad leap; and reckoning you among my friends, I the more easily resolve to open myself to you.
"The case is this: I am treated in an unheard-of manner by the King; and I know there are terrible things in preparation against me, touching certain letters which I wrote last winter, of which I believe you are informed.