It appears, the Quedlinburg people, shut out from the light of the actual Royal Countenance, cannot do their Homaging by Deputy, without at least a Portrait of the King and of the Queen: How manage?
asks the Official Person.

"Have a Couple of Daubs done in Berlin, three guineas apiece; send them these," answers the King! [_"On doit faire barbouiller de mauvaises copies a Berlin, la piece a 20 ecus._--FR." Preuss, ii.

(_Urkundenbuch,_ s.

222).] Here in the Berlin Schloss, scene the Large Hall within doors, there is a "platform raised three steps; and on this, by way of a kind of throne, an arm-chair covered with old black velvet;" the whole surmounted by a canopy also of old black velvet: not a sublime piece of upholstery; but reckoned adequate.

Friedrich mounted the three steps; stood before the old chair, his Princes standing promiscuously behind it; his Ritters in quantity, in front and to right and left, on the floor.