Chapter 13

"I enclose, monsieur, a request addressed by one of the King's Body-guards to the King of Prussia: it has been handed to me and recommended by a field-officer of the Guards. I beg you, therefore, to take it with you and to make use of it if, when you have felt your ground a little in Berlin[59], you think that it is of a nature to obtain some success. "I have great pleasure in taking this occasion to congratulate myself as well as you on this morning's _Moniteur_[60], and to thank you fo…