Hotham, then? Does not fear Hotham, not he him, being a man so
careful of truth in his news. Dare not, however, now send any
intelligence about the Royal Family here; Prussian Majesty having
ordered him not to write gossip like a spiteful woman: What is he
to do? Instruct him, O my Amiable.

"Know for the rest, and be aware of it, O Amiable, that Queen
Caroline here is of opinion, The Amiable Grumkow should be
conciliated; and that Queen Sophie and Hotham are understood to
have been trying it. Do not abandon me, O Amiable; nay I know you
will not, you and Seckendorf, never, though I am a poor man.

"Have found out a curious story, HISTOIRE FORT CRIEUSE,--about one
of Prince Fred's amourettes." Story which this Editor, in the name
of the whole human species, will totally suppress, and sweep into
the cesspool, to herald Reichenbach thither. Except only that this
corollary by the Duchess of Kendal may be appended to the thing:--

"Duchess of Kendal [Hop-pole EMERITA, now gone to devotion, whom
we know, piously turns up her eyes at such doings], thinks the
Princess Wilhelmina will have a bad life of it with Fred, and that
she 'will need the wisdom of Solomon to get on here.' Not a good
bargain, this Prince Fred and his Sister. A dissolute fellow he,
not liked by the Public" (I should hope). 'Then as to Princess
Amelia, she, who was always haughty, begins to give herself airs
upon the Prince-Royal of Prussia; she is as ill-tempered as her
Father, and still more given to backbiting (PLUS RAILLEUSE), and
will greatly displease the Potsdam Majesty.'

These are cheering thoughts. "But what is to become of Nosti?