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for my journey. The Prince, well acquainted 

 "with my extreme extravagance, and fufpedling 

 I might want money, though he feldom had 

 fufficient for his own purpofes, fent a fervant 

 to me with a handfofne fupply. I then took 

 horfe, and^ attended by one fervant, left Potf- 

 dam. 



I flopped at the houfe of a friend, with the 

 intention of palling the night, and waiting the 

 arrival of my baggage and fervant. I wrote 

 from hence, by a xncfTcngQry to the Governor, 

 acquainting him that I had obeyed his Majedy's 

 orders with the alacrity and difpatch I owed 

 to fo great a monarch ; that I hoped he would 

 facilitate the departure of my fervant, by furnifh- 

 inghim the necefTary pafTport : I added, that the 

 keys of Spandau * had made a man tremble 

 who would ftand undaunted before all the ar- 

 tillery of the Houf€ of Brandenburgh. 



The Governor granted my rcqued, inti- 

 mating at the fame time that I might, when I 

 pleafcd, return to Potfdam. After pafling fome 

 time at Berlin, where I had now a numerous 

 acquaintance, I accepted the invitation, and 

 returned to that grand military academy, though 

 not as a permanent refidence. 



* Spandau is a garrifon not far diftant from Potfdam, where 

 Frederic the Great frequently fent officers who gave him of- 

 fence, and kept them as long as he thought proper. 



Potfdam^ 



