the discerning, "What an amount of wig on that old gentleman!"

A notable Kaiser's Ambassador, Herr Botta, who had come with some

Accession compliments, in these weeks, was treated slightingly by

Friedrich; hardly admitted to Audience; and Friedrich's public

reply to the last Dehortatorium had almost something of sarcasm in

it: Evil counsellors yourself, Most Dread Kaiser! It is you that

are "misled by counsellors, who might chance to set Germany on

fire, were others as unwise as they!" Which latter phrase was