[Zimmermann, _Fragmente uber Friedrich den Grossen_ (Leipzig, 1790), i.

88-92; Collini, ubi infra; Denina; &c.: compare Rodenbeck, p.

191.] Well;--but Barberina had, as is usual, subsidiary trades to her dancing: in particular, a young English Gentleman had followed her up and down, says Zimmermann, and was still here in Venice passionately attached to her.

Which fact, especially which young English gentleman, should have been extremely indifferent to me, but for a circumstance soon to be mentioned.

The young English gentleman, clear against Barberina's Prussian scheme, passionately opposes the same, passionately renews his own offers;--induces Barberina to inform the Prussian agent that she renounces her engagement in that quarter.