9156. UNTERREDUNG DES RÖNIGS MIT DEM GROSSBRITANNISCHEN MINISTER MITCHELL.

[Leitmeritz, 3. Juli 1757.]

Mitchell berichtet an Holdernesse, Leitmeritz 4. Juli 1757, (private): „Yesterday the King of Prussia sent for me, which is the first time he has seen anybody, since he received the news of the death of the Queen-Mother.211-1 I had the honour to remain with him some hours in his closet. I must own to Your Lordship I was most sensibly affected to see him indulging his grief and giving way to the warmest filial affections, by recalling to mind the many obligations he had to her late Majesty, and repeating to me her late Majesty's sufferings, the manner she bore them, the good she did to everybody, and the comfort he. had to have contributed to make the latter part of her life easy and agreeable...“ 211-2

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211-1 Vergl. Nr. 9150. 9151.

211-2 Vergl. die ausführlichere Erzählung dieser Unterredung in Mitchell's Tagebüchern. Memoire etc. I, 357—359.