Happen what may, my All-gracious Father may be assured that" &c., "and that I will do nothing unworthy of him.
"FRIEDRICH." [_OEuvres,_ xxvii.

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79.] Neither of those fine plans took effect; nor did anything take effect, as we shall see.

But in regard to that "survey from the steeple of Waghausel, and ride home again between the Lines,"-- in regard to that, here is an authentic fraction of anecdote, curiously fitting in, which should not be omitted.

A certain Herr van Suhm, Saxon Minister at Berlin, occasionally mentioned here, stood in much Correspondence with the Crown-Prince in the years now following: Correspondence which was all published at the due distance of time; Suhm having, at his decease, left the Prince's Letters carefully assorted with that view, and furnished with a Prefatory "Character of the Prince-Royal _( Portrait du Prince-Royal, par M.de Suhm)."_ Of which Preface this is a small paragraph, relating to the Siege of Philipsburg; offering us a momentary glance into one fibre of the futile War now going on there.