"'Yes, I say! That is my Answer; and I will never give another.' HYNDFORD and ROBINSON (much flurried, to Podewils).

"'Your Excellency, please to comprehend, the Proposals from Vienna were--' KING.

"'Messieurs, Messieurs, it is of no use even to think of it.' And taking off his hat," slightly raising his hat, as salutation and finale, "he retired precipitately behind the curtain of the interior corner of the tent," says the reporter: EXIT King! ROBINSON (totally flurried, to Podewils).

"'Your Excellency, France will abandon Prussia, will sacrifice Prussia to self-interest.' PODEWILS.

"'No, no! France will not deceive us; we have not deceived France.'" (SCENE CLOSES; CURTAIN FALLS.) [State-Paper Office (Robinson to Harrington, Breslau, 9th August, 1741); Raumer, pp.