The Chancellor," old Furst, "instructed us as to what we had to do when we came before the King.

And then, towards 2 o'clock, he took us in his carriage to the Palace.

We entered the room immediately at the end of the Great Hall.

Here we found a heyduc [tall porter], by whom the Chancellor announced to the King that we were here.

Heyduc soon came back to inquire, Whether the CABINETS-RATH Stellter," a Secretary or Short-hand writer of his Majesty's, "had arrived yet; and whether we [WE, what a doubt!] were Privy Councillors.