Tight young Gentleman in Prussian military uniform, blue coat, buff breeches, boots; with alert flashing eyes, and careless elegant bearing, salutes courteously, raising his plumed hat.

Podewils in common dress, who has entered escorting the other Two, sits rather to rearward, taking refuge beside the writing apparatus .-- First passages of the Dialogue I omit: mere pickeerings and beatings about the bush, before we come to close quarters.

For Robinson, the florid Yorkshire Gentleman, is charged to offer,--what thinks the reader ?--two million guilders, about 200,000 pounds, if that will satisfy this young military King with the alert Eyes! ROBINSON....

"'Two hundred thousand pounds sterling, if your Majesty will be pleased to retire out of Silesia, and renounce this enterprise!' KING.

"'Retire out of Silesia?
And for money?
Do you take me for a beggar! Retire out of Silesia, which has cost me so much treasure and blood in the conquest of it?
No, Monsieur, no; that is not to be thought of! If you have no better proposals to make, it is not worth while talking.' These words were accompanied with threatening gestures and marks of great anger;" considerably staggering to the Two Diplomatic British gentlemen, and of evil omen to Robinson's phantasm of a compliance.