'Lord Townshend is still at his place in the country [Rainham in
Norfolk]: but it is said he will soon come to Town; having heard
the great news that they had already got his Prussian Majesty by
the nose. Reichenbach forgets if he already told Grumkow that the
rumor runs, Lord Chesterfield, in quality of Ambassador to Berlin,
is to bring the Princess Wilhelmina over hither:'--you did
already, poor confused wretch; unusually bewildered, and under
frightful eclipse at present.

Continues after four days:--

APRIL 18th. "... Lord Stratford [to me an unknown Lordship} and
heads of Opposition would like to ascertain what Hotham's offer to
the King of Prussia IS."

Truly, yes; they mean to ask in Parliament (as poor gamblers in
that Cockpit are wont), 'And why did not you make the offer
sooner, then? Friendship with his Prussian Majesty, last year,
would have saved the whole of that large Waterspout about the
Meadows of Clamei! Nay need we, a few months ago, have spent such
loads of gold subsidizing those Hessians and Danes against him?
The treasures of this Country go a strange road, Mr. Speaker!
What is the use of our industries and riches?' Heavens, yes, what!
But we continue to excerpt and interpret:--

Reichenbach "has said nothing of this to his Prussian Majesty,
Reichenbach has not; too dangerous in own present down-pressed
state:--though amazingly exact always in news, and attached to his
Prussian Majesty as mortal seldom was. Need he fear their new