The King's answer is in autograph, still extant; not in good spelling, but with sense clear as light: "SEINE OFFICIERS HABEN WIE DIE RABEN GESTOLLEN SIE KRIGEN NICHTS, Your Officers stole like ravens;--they get Nothing." [Preuss, ii.

320.] Lessing's fine play of MINNA VON BARNHELM testifies to considerable public sympathy for these impoverished Ex-Military people.

Pathetic truly, in a degree; but such things will happen.

Irregular gentlemen, to whom the world 's their oyster,--said oyster does suddenly snap to on them, by a chance.

And they have to try it on the other side, and say little!--But we are forgetting the Peace-Treaty itself, which still demands a few words.
Kleist's raid into the Reich had a fine effect on the Potentates there; and Plotho's Offer was greedily complied with; the Kaiser, such his generosity, giving "free permission." We spoke of Privy-Councillor von Fritsch, and his private little word with Friedrich at Meissen, on November 25th.