effel to be (Pfeffel, _Abrege Chronologique de
l'Histoire d'Allemagne,_ 2 vols. 4to, Paris, 1776), who has succeeded
Barri as Patent Guide through that vast SYLVA SYLVARUM and its pathless
intricacies, for the inquiring French and English.]

PUTTER.... "Foreigners have for most part known only, in regard to our
History, a Latin work written by Struve at Jena." [Burkhard Gotthelf
Struve, _Syntagma Historiae Germanicus_ (1730, 2 vols. folio).]

KING. "Struv, Struvius; him I don't know."

PUTTER. "It is a pity Barri had not known German."

KING. "Barri was a Lorrainer; Barri must have known German!"--Then
turning to the Duchess, on this hint about the German Language, he told
her, "in a ringing merry tone, How, at Leipzig once, he had talked with
Gottsched [talk known to us] on that subject, and had said to him, That
the French had many advantages; among others, that a word could often be
used in a complex signification, for which you had in German to scrape
together several different expressions. Upon which Gottsched had said,
'We will have that mended (DAS WOLLEN WIR NOCH MACHEN)!' These words the
King repeated twice or thrice, with such a tone that you could well
see how the man's conceit had struck him;"--and in short, as we know
already, what a gigantic entity, consisting of wind mainly, he took this
elevated Gottsched to be.

Upon which, Putter retires into the honorary ranks again; silent, at
least to us, and invisible; as the rest of this Royal Evening at Gotha
is. ["Putter's _Selbstbiographie_ (Autobiography), p. 406:" cited in
Preuss, ii. 277 n.] Here, however, is the Letter following on it two
days after:--

FRIEDRICH TO THE DUCHESS OF SACHSEN-GOTHA.

"LEIPZIG, 6th December, 1762.

"MADAM,--I should never have done, my adorable Duchess, if I rendered
you account of all the impressions which the friendship you lavished
on me has made on my heart. I could wish to answer it by entering into
everything that can be agreeable to you [conduct of my Recruiters or
Commissariat people first of all]. I take the liberty of forwarding
the ANSWERS which have come in to the Two MEMOIRES you sent me. I am
mortified, Madam, if I have not been able to fulfil completely your
desires: but if you knew the situation I am in, I flatter myself you
would have some consideration for it.

"I have found myself here [in Leipzig, as elsewhere] overwhelmed with
business, and even to a degree I had not expected. Meanwhile, if I eve