scated altogether; that is your only remedy. Surely a tyrant of a
King.

"People who get nearest him will tell you that his Politeness is not
natural, but a remnant of old habit, when he had need of everybody,
against the persecutions of his Father. He respects his Mother; the only
Female for whom he has a sort of attention. He esteems his Wife, and
cannot endure her; has been married nineteen years, and has not yet
addressed one word to her [how true!]. It was but a few days ago she
handed him a Letter, petitioning some things of which she had the
most pressing want. He took the Letter, with that smiling, polite and
gracious air which he assumes at pleasure; and without breaking the
seal, tore the Letter up before her face, made her a profound bow, and
turned his back on her." Was there ever such a Pluto varnished into
Literary Rose-pink? Very proper Majesty for the Tartarus that here is.

... "The Queen-Mother," continues our Small Devil, "is a good fat woman,
who lives and moves in her own way (RONDEMENT). She has l6,000 pounds a
year for keeping up her House. It is said she hoards. Four days in the
week she has Apartment [Royal Soiree]; to which you cannot go without
express invitation. There is supper-table of twenty-four covers; only
eight dishes, served in a shabby manner (INDECEMMENT) by six little
scoundrels of Pages. Men and women of the Country [shivering Natives,
cheering their dull abode] go and eat there. Steward Royal sends the
invitations. At eleven, everybody has withdrawn. Other days, this Queen
eats by herself. Stewardess Royal and three Maids of Honor have their
separate table; two dishes the whole. She is shabbily lodged [in my
opinion], when at the Palace. Her Monbijou, which is close to Berlin
[now well within it], would be pretty enough, for a private person.

"The Queen Regnant is the best woman in the world. All the year [NOT
QUITE] she dines alone. Has Apartment on Thursdays; everybody gone at
nine o'clock. Her morsels are cut for her, her steps are counted, and
her words are dictated; she is miserable, and does what she can to hide
it"--according to our Small Devil. "She has scarcely the necessaries
of life allowed her,"--spends regularly two-thirds of her income in
charitable objects; translates French-Calvinist Devotional Works, for
benefit of the German mind; and complains to no Small Devil, of never
so sympathizing nature. "At Court she is lodged on the second floor
[scandalous]. Schonh