NK" and her beloved Husband. Their unreasonable
fondness for each other can never last: they will soon grow as cold to
one another as the Town to _The Beggars' Opera._ And cannot warm again,
you think? Pray Heaven I may prove a false prophet; but Married Love and
English Music are too domestic to continue long in favor."...

NOVEMBER 20th, SOISSONS still. "This is one of the agreeablest Towns in
France. The people are infinitely obliging to strangers: we are of all
their parties, and perpetually share with them in their pleasures. I
have learnt more French since I came hither, than I should have picked
up in a twelvemonth in Lorraine....

"A fool with a majority on his side is the greatest tyrant in the
world:--how can I go back to loiter in Lorraine, honored Father, where
fools are in such majority? Then the extraordinary civilities I receive
from Mr. Poyntz: He has in a manner taken me into his family; will
evidently make an Apprentice of me. The first Packet that comes from
Fontainebleau, I expect to be employed. Which is no small pleasure to
me: and will I hope be of service."...

DECEMBER 20th. "A sudden order to Mr. Poyntz has broken all my measures.
He goes to-morrow to Paris, to stay there in the room of Messrs.
Stanhope and Walpole, who are on their return for England." Congress
falling into complete languor, if we knew it! But ought not I to
accompany this friendly and distinguished Mr. Poyntz, "who has already
given me papers to copy;"--in fact I am setting off with him, honored
Father!...

"Prince Frederick's journey,"--first arrival in England of dissolute
Fred from Hanover, who had NOT been to Berlin to get married last
summer,--"was very secret: Mr. Poyntz did not hear of it till Friday
last; at least he had no public notice of it." Why should he? "There will
be fine struggling for places" in this Prince's new Household. "I
hope my Brother will come in for one." [Ayscough's _Lyttelton,_ iii.
200-231.]--

But here we pull the string of the curtain upon Lyttelton, and upon his
Congress falling into complete languor; Congress destined, after dining
for about a year more, to explode, in the Treaty of Seville, and to
leave the Kaiser sitting horror-struck, solitary amid the wreck of
Political Nature,--which latter, however, pieces itself together again
for him and others. Beneficent Treaty of Vienna was at last achieved;
Treaty and Treaties there, which brought matters to their old bearing
again,--Austri