The King of Prussia (said he) had sent him a silly pamphlet of twenty pages, in very bad French--such a pamphlet as the English ministry were in the habit of commanding their hireling scribblers to put forth--but he acquitted the King of having read this performance.

He was extremely anxious to live on the most friendly terms with his "good brother," and begged him, as the first token of equal goodwill, to dismiss the counsellors who had hurried him into the present unjust and unequal war.

Such was the language of this famous note.

Napoleon, now sure of his prey, desired his own generals to observe how accurately he had already complied with one of the requests of the Prussian Manifesto--"The French army," said he, "has done as it was bidden.

This is the 8th of October, and we _have_ evacuated the territories of the Confederation of the Rhine." The Prussian King understood well, on learning the fall of Naumburg, the imminent danger of his position; and his army was forthwith set in motion, in two great masses; the former, where he was in person present, advancing towards Naumburg; the latter attempting, in like manner, to force their passage through the French line in the neighbourhood of Jena.