[And about the ostensible WORD,--Nothing!] MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.

"8.

During the short stay I am now to make, if I could be made the bearer of some news agreeable to my Court, I would supplicate your Majesty to honor me with such a commission.

[This does not want for impudence, Monsieur! Friedrich answers, from aloft!] MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.

"8.