since, by the variety of forms alone and the wealth of choice afforded, it may, through the subjoined table, prove to be of service.  For the rest, whether this offspring can be a credit to, or reflect glory upon, its parent, be this a question for your Imperial Majesty to decide.  Its name, to be sure, whereby the wrapper first introduces itself to your most August Majesty, is like a nut; the shell, like all things cryptographic, is open to the sight; but of the kernel, of my person, my spirit, and my most humble devotion to your Imperial Majesty, thereof he who will deliver this offspring into your Imperial Majesty’s sacred hands will give explanation.  I myself am, most truly, and shall be, one who never, to the last breath of his life, will desist from cherishing, to the extent of his power, your Imperial Majesty, and standing ever ready to render him whatever service he can, however humble.  And, indeed, how could I otherwise, a German, and knowing that, without the preservation of your Imperial Majesty’s life, my own fatherland could not stand unshaken.  This we learned full well only the other day, when a little cloud, rising from some quarter of the heaven, seemed for a while to have abstracted this Sun of day from our sight.  Now we are everywhere fostered by the care of Justice,