The King began, without knowing why, to prohibit Austrian Officers from entering his Territories without an express order, signed by his own hand.
Similar prohibition, on the part of our Court, against Prussian Officers and mutual constraint, without profit or reason.

I, for my own part, am of confident humor; I thought I should need no permission, and I think still I could have done without one.

But the desire of having a Letter from the great Friedrich, rather than the fear of being ill-received, made me write to him.

My Letter was all on fire with my enthusiasm, my admiration, and the fervor of my sentiment for that sublime and extraordinary being; and it brought me three charming Answers from him.
He gave me, in detail, almost what I had given him in the gross; and what he could not return me in admiration,--for I do not remember to have gained a battle,--he accorded me in friendship.

For fear of missing, he had written to me from Potsdam, to Vienna, to Dresden, and to Berlin.