MAUPERTUIS." VOLTAIRE'S ANSWER (from Leipzig, a few days after).
"M.

le President,--I have had the honor to receive your Letter.

You inform me that you are well; that your strength is entirely returned; and that, if I publish La Beaumelle's Letter [private Letter of his, lent me by a Friend, which proves that YOU set him against me], you will come and assassinate me.

What ingratitude to your poor medical man Akakia!...

If you exalt your soul so as to discern futurity, you will see that if you come on that errand to Leipzig, where you are no better liked than in other places, and where your Letter is in safe Legal hands, you run some risk of being hanged.