That Minerva has just published her Work on PHYSICS: not wholly bad.

It was Konig"-- whom we know, and whose late tempest in a certain teapot--"that dictated the theme to her: she has adjusted, ornamented here and there with some touch picked from Voltaire at her Suppers.

The Chapter on Space is pitiable; the"-- in short, she is still raw in the Pure Sciences, and should have waited....
"Adieu, most learned, most scientific, most profound Jordan,--or rather most gallant, most amiable, most jovial Jordan;--I salute thee, with assurance of all those old feelings which thou hast the art of inspiring in every one that knows thee.

VALE.
"I write the moment of my arrival: be obliged to me, friend; for I have been working, I am going to work still, like a Turk, or like a Jordan." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xvii.

71.] This is hastily thrown off for Friend Jordan, the instant after his Majesty's circuitous return home.