"'I love those tender affectionate hearts; I love right well those brave Swiss people!' "Next morning the King was heard to say: 'I have found Zimmermann quite what you described him.'-- Catt assured me furthermore, 'Since the Seven-Years War there had thousands of strangers, persons of rank, come to Potsdam, wishing to speak with the King, and had not attained that favor; and of those who had, there could not one individual boast that his Majesty had talked with him an hour and quarter at once.' [Fourteen years hence, he dismissed Mirabeau in half an hour; which was itself a good allowance.] "Sunday 27th, I left Potsdam, with my kind Meckels, in an enthusiasm of admiration, astonishment, love and gratitude; wrote to the King from Berlin, sent him a Tissot's Book (marked on the margins for Majesty's use), which he acknowledged by some word to Catt: whereupon I"-- In short, I got home to Hanover, in a more or less seraphic condition,--"with indescribable, unspeakable," what not,--early in November; and, as a healed man, never more troubled with that disorder, though still troubled with many and many, endeavored to get a little work out of myself again.

[Zimmermann, _Meine Unterredungen_ (Dialogues) _with Friedrich the Great_ (8vo, Leipzig, 1788), pp.

305-326.] "Zimmermann was tall, handsome of shape; his exterior was distinguished and imposing," says Jordens.

[Ubi supra, p.

643.] "He had a firm and light step; stood gracefully; presented himself well.