Richardson, _Anecdotes of the Russian Empire,_ pp.

325-331: "Petersburg, 4th January, 1771."] The masquerades and galas in honor of Prince Henri, from a grandiose Hostess, who had played with him in childhood, were many; but it is not with these that we have to do.

One day, the Czarina, talking to him of the Austrian procedures at Zips, said with pique, "It seems, in Poland you have only to stoop, and pick up what you like of it.

If the Court of Vienna have the notion to dismember that Kingdom, its neighbors will have right to do as much." [Rulhiere, iv.

210; _Trois Demembremens,_ i.