Barbier, the Diarist at Paris, some time after this, tells us of a gang of thieves there, who were regularly put to the torture; and "they blabbed too, ILS ONT JASE," says Barbier with official jocosity.

[Barbier, _Journal Historique du Regne de Louis XV._ (Paris, 1849), ii.

338 (date "Dec.

1742").] Friedrich's Cabinet Order, we need not say, was greeted everywhere, at home and abroad, by three rounds of applause;--in which surely all of us still join; though the PER CONTRA also is becoming visible to some of us, and our enthusiasm grows less complete than formerly.

This was Friedrich's first step in Law-Reform, done on his fourth day of Kingship.