69.] There saunters pleasantly our Crown-Prince, for these three days;--and one glad incident I do perceive to have befallen him there: the arrival of a Letter from Voltaire.

Letter much expected, which had followed him from Wesel; and which he answers here, in this brick Palace, among the superb avenues and gardens.

[_OEuvres,_ xxi.

203, the Letter, "Cirey, June, 1738;" Ib.

222, the Answer to it, "Loo, 6th August, 1738."] No doubt a glad incident, irradiating, as with a sudden sunburst in gray weather, the commonplace of things.