Let it so end!" [Dickens's Despatch, 25th September, 1730; and Harrington's Answer to it, of 6th October: Seckendorf (in Forster, iii.

9), 23d September.]--Nay at dinner one day (Seckendorf reports, while Fritz was on the road to Custrin) he proposes the toast, "Downfall of England!" [Seckendorf (in Forster, iii.

11).] and would have had the Queen drink it; who naturally wept, but I conjecture could not be made to drink.

Her Majesty is a weeping, almost broken-hearted woman; his Majesty a raging, almost broken-hearted man.

Seckendorf and Grumkow are, as it were, too victorious; and now have their apprehensions on that latter score.