What fractional elements, capable of gaining some vestige of meaning when laid together in their cosmic order, I could pick from the circumambient immensity not cosmic, are here for the reader's behoof.

Let him skip, if, like myself, he is weary; for the substance of the story is elsewhere given.

Or perhaps he has the curiosity to know the speech of birds?
With abridgment, by occasional change of phrase, above all by immense omission,--here, in specimen, is something like what the Rookery says to poor Friedrich Wilhelm and us, through St.Mary Axe and the Copyists in the Foreign Office! Friedrich Wilhelm reads it (Hotham gives him reading of it) some weeks hence; we not till generations afterwards.

I abridge to the utmost;--will mark in single commas what is not Abridgment but exact Translation;--with rigorous attention to dates, and my best fidelity to any meaning there may be:-- TO NOSTI (the so-called Excellenz Reichenbach) IN LONDON: Gumkow from Berlin LOQUITUR, Reichenbach listening with both his ears (words caught up in St.Mary Axe).
BERLIN, 3d MARCH, 1730.

"The time has now come when Reichenbach must play his game.