Friedrich answered, on report of it: "I think as Hoffman did.

If he was 'drunk,' it is pity the Governor and all the Garrison had not been so, to have come to the same judgment, as he." [P.S.

in Autograph of Letter to Schmettau, "Waldau, 11th September, 1759" (Preuss, ii.; _Urkundenbuch,_ p.

45).] Friedrich's unbearable feelings, of grief and indignation, in regard to all this Dresden matter,--which are not expressed except coldly in business form,--can be fancied by all readers.

One of the most tragical bits of ill-luck that ever befell him.