"I could not get away from Brussels till the 2d of this month.
On the road, I met a courier from the King of Prussia, coming to
reiterate his Master's orders on me. The King had me lodged near
his own Apartment; and he passed, for two consecutive days, four
hours at a time in my room, with all that goodness and familiarity
which forms, as you know, part of his character, and which does not
lower the King's dignity, because one is duly careful not to abuse
it [be careful!]. I had abundant time to speak, with a great deal
of freedom, on what your Eminency had prescribed to me; and the
King spoke to me with an equal frankness.

"First, he asked me, If it was true that the French Nation was so
angered against him; if the King was, and if you were? I answered,"
--mildly reprobatory, yet conciliative, "Hm, no, nothing permanent,
nothing to speak of." "He then deigned to speak to me, at large, of
the reasons which had induced him to be so hasty with the Peace."
"Extremely remarkable reasons;" "dare not trust them to this Paper"
(Broglio-Belleisle discrepancies, we guess, distracted Broglio
procedures);--they have no concern with that Pallandt-Letter Story,
--"they do not turn on the pretended Secret Negotiations at the
Court of Vienna [which are not pretended at all, as I among others
well know], in regard to which your Eminency has condescended to
clear yourself [by denying the truth, poor Eminency; there was no
help otherwise]. All I dare state is, that it seems to me easy to
lead back the mind of this Sovereign, whom the situation of his
Territories, his interest, and his taste would appear to mark as
the natural ally of France."

"He said farther [what may be relied on as true by his Eminency