M.de Voltaire had run across to Lille in those Spring days: there is a good Troop of Players in Lille; a Niece, Madame Denis, wife of some Military Commissariat Denis, important in those parts, can lodge the divine Emilie and me;--and one could at last see MAHOMET, after five years of struggling, get upon the boards, if not yet in Paris by a great way, yet in Lille, which is something.

MAHOMET is getting upon the boards on those terms; and has proceeded, not amiss, through an Act or two, when a Note from the King of Prussia was handed to Voltaire, announcing the victory of Mollwitz.

Which delightful Note Voltaire stopt the performance till he read to the Audience: "Bravissimo!" answered the Audience.

"You will see," said M.de Voltaire to the friends about him, "this Piece at Mollwitz will make mine succeed:" which proved to be the fact.

[Voltaire, _OEuvres (Vie Privee),_ ii.