Which I did. "But after having made me stay almost an
hour, and after the President of the Council was come, Herr von Hartoff
came out to me; and repeated what he had said yesterday, in very
positive and absolute terms, 'That the Ministers were resolved not to
see me, and had expressly forbid him taking any Paper at my hands.'

"To which I replied, 'That this was very hard usage; and the world would
see how the King of Prussia would relish it. But having strict orders
from his Majesty, my most gracious Master, to make a Declaration to the
Ministers of Hanover in his name; and finding Herr von Hartoff would
neither receive it, nor take a copy of it, I had only to tell him that
I was under the necessity of leaving it in writing,--and had brought the
Paper with me,'" let Herr von Hartoff observe!--"'And that now, as the
Council were pleased to refuse to take it, I was obliged to leave the
said Declaration on a table in an adjoining room, in the presence of
Herr von Hartoff and other Secretaries of the Council, whom I desired to
lay it before the Ministry.'

"After this I went home; but had scarcely entered my apartment, when
a messenger returned me the Declaration, still sealed as I left it, by
order of the Ministers: and perceiving I was not inclined to receive it,
he laid it on my table, and immediately left the house." [A Letter
from an English Traveller to his Friend at London, relating to the
Differences betwixt the Courts of Prussia and Hanover, with Copies of,
&c. Translated from the French (London, A. Millar, at Buchanan's
Head, 1730), pp. 29-34. An excellent distinct little Pamphlet; very
explanatory in this matter,--like the smallest rushlight in a dark
cellar of shot-lumber.]

Whereupon Kannegiesser, without loss of a moment, returns to Berlin,
19th August; and reports progress.

Simple honest Orson of a Prussian Majesty, what a bepainted, beribboned
insulting Play-actor Majesty has he fallen in with!--"Hm, so? Hm, na!"
and I see the face of him, all colors of the prism, and eyes in a fine
frenzy; betokening thundery weather to some people! Instantly he orders
44,000 men to get on march; [Friedrich Wilhelm's "Manifesto" is in
_Mauvillon,_ ii. 210-215, dated "20th August, 1729" (the day after
Kannegieseer's return).] and these instantly begin to stir; small
preparation needed, ever-ready being the word with them. From heavy
guns, ammunition-wagons and draught-horses, down to the last buckle of a
spatterdash,