I regard you as an estimable Friend, to whose friendship I have recourse in straits.
The question is still Peace, Madam; and were not the object of my importunities so beautiful, Madam, I should be inexcusable."-- Goes then into practical considerations, about "Cocceji" (King's Aide-de-Camp, once Keith's, who carries this Letter), about a "Herr von Edelsheim," a "Bailli de Froulay", and the possible "Conditions of Peace,"-- not of consequence to us just now.

[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xviii.

174, 173, 172.

Correspondence on this subject lasts from 22d September, 1759, to 8th May, 1760: IB.pp.

170-186.