Nay, this same day, TUESDAY, 6th DECEMBER, there has come out brief Official Announcement, to all the Foreign Ministers at Berlin, Excellency Dickens among them, "That his Royal Majesty, our most all-gracious Herr, has taken the resolution to advance a Body of Troops into Schlesien,"-- rather out of friendly views towards Austria (much business lying between us about Schlesien), not out of hostile views by any means, as all Excellencies shall assure their respective Courts.

[Copy of the Paper in _Helden-Geschichte,_ i.

447.] Announcement which had thrown the Excellency Dickens into such a frame of mind, before he got his Audience to-day!-- SATURDAY following, which was December 10th, Marquis de Beauvau had his Audience of leave; intending for Paris shortly: Audience very gracious; covertly hinting, on both sides, more than it said; ending in these words, on the King's side, which have become famous: "Adieu, then, M.le Marquis.

I believe I am going to play your game; if the aces fall to me, we will share (_Je vais, je crois, jouer votre jeu: si les as me viennent, nous partagerons)!_" [Voltaire, _OEuvres_ (Siecle de Louis XV., c.

6), xxviii.