Perfectly at liberty to keep it all, if he will plunder Hanover for us!" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ iv.

29.] Pleasant message to the proud King; who answered with the due brevity, to the purport, "Silence, Sir!"-- with didactic effects on the surprised Rouille.

Who now mends his proposal; though again in a remarkable way.

Instructs Nivernois, namely, "To offer King Friedrich the Island of Tobago, if he will renew Treaty, and take arms for us.

Island of Tobago (a deserted, litigated, but pretty Island, were it ever ours), will not that entice this King, intent on Commerce ?" Friedrich, who likes Nivernois and his polite ways, answers quizzingly: "Island of Tobago?
Island of Barataria your Lordship must be meaning; Island of which I cannot be the Sancho Panza!" [Ib.
31.] And Nivernois found he must not mention Tobago again.
For the rest, Friedrich made no secret of his English Treaty; showed it with all frankness to Nivernois, in all points: "Is there, can the most captious allege that there is, anything against France in it.