And on the morrow [end of May, 1750], the Austrian attends accordingly; but, to his astonishment, has hardly begun to taste the manoeuvres, when--one of Friedrich's Aides-de-Camp gallops up: 'By the King's command, Mein Herr, you retire on the instant!' "Next day, the Austrian is for challenging Chasot.

'As you like, that way,' answers Chasot; 'but learn first, that on your affront I rode up to the King; and asked, publicly, Did not your Majesty grant me permission?
Unquestionably, Monsieur Chasot;--and if he had not come, how could I have paid back the Moravian business of last year!'" [Walpole,--George the Second,--i.

457, 459.]--This is much in Friedrich's way; not the unwelcomer that it includes a satirical twitch on Chasot, whom he truly likes withal, or did like, though now a little dissatisfied with those too frequent Mecklenburg excursions and extra-military cares.

Of this, merely squeezing the Hanbury venom out of it, I can believe every particular.
"Did you ever hear of anything so shocking ?" is Hanbury's meaning here and elsewhere.

"I must tell you a story of the King of Prussia's regard for the Law of Nations," continues he to Walpole?
[Ib.