Which allegations or inferences I rebutted with emphasis.

"But, I confess, though I employed all my rhetoric, his mind did not seem to alter; and it will be a miracle if he change on this head." Alas, General! Can't be helped, I fear! "He said he was not afraid of anything so much as of living constantly beside the King .-- SCHULENBURG: Arm yourself with patience, Monseigneur, if that happen.

God has given you sense enough; persevere to use it faithfully on all occasions, you will gain the good graces of the King .-- PRINCE: Impossible; beyond my power, indeed, said he; and made a thousand objections .-- SCHULENBURG: Your Highness is like one that will not learn a trade because you do not already know it.

Begin; you will certainly never know it otherwise! Before rising in the morning, form a plan for your day,"-- in fact, be moral, oh, be moral! His Highness now got upon the marriages talked of for him; an important point for the young man.

He spoke, hopefully rather, of the marriage with the Princess of Mecklenburg,--Niece of the late Czar Peter the Great; Daughter of that unhappy Duke who is in quarrel with his Ritters, and a trouble to all his neighbors, and to us among the number.