inform your Majesty in a letter of my own hand; being ever eager
to serve your Majesty alone.'

Hotham is now fairly gone, weeks ago; concluded to be now in
Berlin,--to the horror of both rooks. Here is a croak from NOSTI:--


TO THE HERR GRUMKOW AT BERLIN.

LONDON, APRIL, 1730. "... Hotham is no such conjurer as they fancy
in Berlin;--singular enough, how these English are given to
undervalue the Germans; whilst we in Germany overvalue them"
( avons une idee trop vaste, they
trap petite ). 'There is, for instance, Lord
Chesterfield, passes here for a fair-enough kind of man (BON
HOMME), and is a favorite with the King [not with Walpole or the
Queen, if Nosti knew it]; but nobody thinks him such a prodigy as
you all do in Germany,'--which latter bit of Germanism is an
undoubted fact; curious enough to the English, and to the Germans
that now read in extinct Books.

Hotham, as we said, got to Berlin on the 2d of April. From Berlin
comes thereupon, at great length, sordid description by Grumkow,
of that initiatory Hotham Dinner, April Third, with fearful
details of the blazing favor Hotham is in. Which his Majesty (when
Hotham hands it to him, in due time) will read with painful
interest; as Reichenbach now does;--but which to us is all mere
puddle, omissible in this place.

To which sad Strophe, there straightway follows due Anti-strophe,