'No passport, no need of any!'-- 'Pardon!' and signifies to Monseigneur, on the part of George Elector of Hanover, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, that Monseigneur is arrested! "Monseigneur, with compressed or incompressible feelings, indignantly complies,--what could he else, unfortunate rheumatic gentleman ?--and is plucked away in such sudden manner, he for one, out of that big German game of his raising.

The twenty vehicles are dragged different roads; towards Scharzfels, Osterode, or I know not where,--handiest roads to Hanover;--and Monseigneur himself has travelling treatment which might be complained of, did not one disdain complaint: 'my Brother parted from me, nay my Doctor, and my Interpreter;'"-- not even speech possible to me.

[Letter of Belleisle next morning, "Neuhof, 21st December, 9 A.M." (in _Valori,_ i.

204), to Munchhausen at Hanover,--by no possibility "to Valori," as the distracted French Editor has given it!] That was the Belleisle Accident in the Harz, Sunday Evening, 20th December, 1744.
"Afflicted indignant Valori, soon enough apprised, runs to Friedrich with the news,--greets Friedrich with it just alighting from that Silesian run of his own.

Friedrich, not without several other things to think of, is naturally sorry at such news; sorry for his own sake even; but not overmuch.