Copying Despatches from the most secret Saxon Repositories; ready always on Excellency Mahlzahn's indicating the Piece wanted; and of late, I should think, is busier than ever, as the Saxon Mystery, which is also an Austrian and Russian one, gets more light thrown into it, and seems to be fast ripening towards action of a perilous nature.

The first Excerpts furnished by Menzel, readers can judge how enigmatic they were.

These Menzel Papers, copies mainly of Petersburg or Vienna DESPATCHES to Bruhl, with Bruhl's ANSWERS,--the principal of which were subsequently printed in their best arrangement and liveliest point of vision [In Friedrich's Manifestoes, chiefly in MEMOIRE RAISONNE SUR LA CONDUITE DES COURS DE VIENNE ET DE SAXE (compiled from the MENZEL ORIGINALS, so soon as these were got hold of: Berlin, Autumn, 1756).

A solid and able Paper; rapidly done, by one Count Herzberg, who rose high in after times.

Reprinted, with many other "Pieces" and "Passages," in _Gesammelte Nachrichten und Urkunden,_--which is a "Collection" of such (2 vols., 113 Nos.