The6，000Hessians，formerlyinEnglishpay，indignantLandgrafWilhelm[whonevercouldforgivethatMachiavellianconductofCarteretatHanau，nevertillhefoundoutwhatitreallywas]has，thisyear，putintoFrenchpay。AndtheyhavenowjoinedSeckendorf；[Espagnac，ii。13；Buchholz，ii。123。]PrinceFriedrich[BritannicMajesty’sSon—in—law]，notgoodfatUncleGeorge，commandingthemhenceforth:——withextremelackofprofittoPrinceFriedrich，totheHessians，andtotheFrench，aswillappearintime。These6，000，andcertainthousandsofPfalzerslikewiseinFrenchpay，arenowwithSeckendorf，andhaveraisedhimtoabove30，000；——itistheonefruitKingFriedrichhasgotbythat’UnionofFrankfurt，’andbyallhislongprospectivehaggling，andstrugglingfora’UnionofGermanPrincesingeneral。’Twopears，afterthatlongshakingofthetree；bothpearsrotten，orindeedfallingintoSeckendorf，whoisabasketofsuchquality！
’Seckendorf，increasedinthismunificentmanner，canhestilldonothing？’crytheFrench:’theoldtraitor！’——’Ihavenomagazines，’saidSeckendorf，’nothingtoliveupon，toshootwith；
nomoney！’Anditisamutualcrescendobetweenthe’perfidiousSeckendorf’andthem；withoutworkdone。IntheNurnbergCountry，someHussarsofhispickedupLordHolderness，anEnglishAmbassadormakingforVenicebythatbadroute。’Prisoner，arenotyou？’Buttheydidnotusehimill；onconsideration，theHeadsofImperialDepartmentsgavehimaPass，andhecontinuedhisVenetianJourney（resultofitzero）withoutfarthermolestationthatI
heardof。[Adelung，iv。222。]
\"TheseFrench—Seckendorfcunctations，recriminationsanddrenched—