'Brother,' said he to the King, 'your subjects are deficient in respect; order one or two of them to be hanged; it will restrain the others!' During the same visit, one day, at Charlottenburg; the Czar, after dinner, stepped out on a balcony which looked into the Gardens.

Seeing many people assembled below, he gnashed his teeth (GRINCA DES DENTS), and began giving signs of frenzy.

Shifty little Catharine, who was with him, requested that a certain person down among the crowd, who had a yellow wig, should be at once put away, or something bad would happen.

This done, the Czar became quiet again.

The Czarina added, he was subject to such attacks of frenzy; and that, when she saw it, she would scratch his head, which moderated him.