Might build, new-build, an ACADEMY OF SCIENCES at Berlin for your Royal Highness, one day?
suggests Voltaire, on this occasion: and Friedrich, as we shall see, takes the hint.

One passage of the Crown-Prince's Answer is in these terms;--fixing this Loo visit to its date for us, at any rate:-- "LOO IN HOLLAND, 6th AUGUST, 1739....

I write from a place where there lived once a great man [William III.

of England, our Dutch William]; which is now the Prince of Orange's House.

The demon of Ambition sheds its unhappy poisons over his days.