Tall of stature, 'perfectly handsome at the age of sixty;' [Formey, _Souvenirs d'un Citoyen,_ i.

39-45.] great partisan of Wolf and the Philosophies, awake to the Orthodoxies too.

Writes flowing elegant French, in a softly trenchant, somewhat too all-knowing style.

High manners traceable in him; but nothing of the noble loyalty, natural politeness and pious lucency of Suhm.

One of his Letters to Friedrich has this slightly impertinent passage;--Friedrich, just getting settled in Reinsberg, having transiently mentioned 'the quantity of fair sex' that had come about him there:-- "'BERLIN, 26th AUGUST, 1736 (to the Crown-Prince)....