I should certainly have mixed my tears with yours, had I been present at that touching scene! Be it weakness, be it excess of regard, I have built for her lost Mother, what Cicero projected for his Tullia, a TEMPLE OF FRIENDSHIP: her Statue occupies the background, and on each pillar stands a mask (MASCARON) containing the Bust of some Hero in Friendship: I send you the drawing of it." ["Potsdam, 24th October, 1773:" _OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiii.

259:--"Temple" was built in 1768 (Ib.p.259 n.).] Which again sets Voltaire weeping, and will the Duchess when she sees it.

[Voltaire's next Letter: _OEuvres de Voltaire,_ xcii.

434.] We said there hitherto was nearly nothing anywhere discoverable as History of this high Lady but the dates only; these we now give.

She was "born 30th August, 1732,"-- her Mother's and Father's one Child;--four years older than her Anspach Cousin, who inherited Baireuth too, and finished off that genealogy.