Poor M.Mitchell has had a stroke of apoplexy on hearing it.

It is a hideous thing (CHOSE AFFREUSE); but I will speak of it no more.

May you, Madam, enjoy all the prosperities that I wish for you, and not forget a Friend, who will be till his death, with sentiments of the highest esteem and the most perfect consideration,--Madam, your Highness's most faithful Cousin and Servant, FRIEDRICH." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xzvii.

201.] For a fortnight past, Friedrich has had no doubt that general Peace is now actually at hand.

November 25th, ten days before this visit, a Saxon Privy-Councillor, Baron von Fritsch, who, by Order from his Court, had privately been at Vienna on the errand, came privately next, with all speed, to Friedrich (Meissen, November 25th): [Rodenbeck, ii.