A Man of Letters operates on something certain; a Politician can have almost no data of that kind." [Ib.

xix.p.

329.] (How easy everybody's trade but one's own!) Readers know what a tragedy poor Peter's was.

His Czernichef did join the King; but with far less advantage than Czernichef or anybody had anticipated!--It is none of our intention to go into the chaotic Russian element, or that wildly blazing sanguinary Catharine-and-Peter business; of which, at any rate, there are plentiful accounts in common circulation, more or less accurate,--especially M.Rulhiere's, [Histoire ou Anecdotes sur la Revolution de Russie en l'annes 1762 (written 1768; first printed Paris, 1797: English Translation, London, 1797).] the most succinct, lucid and least unsatisfactory, in the accessible languages.
Only so far as Friedrich was concerned are we.

But readers saw this Couple married, under Friedrich's auspices,--a Marriage which he thought important twenty years ago; and sure enough the Dissolution of it did prove important to him, and is a necessary item here! Readers, even those that know RULHIERE, will doubtless consent to a little supplementing from Two other Eye-witnesses of credit.