stamping on it, was heard to say volcanically, "That cursed
parson,--CE MAUDIT CALOTTE [old Fleury],--has ruined everything!"
Perhaps it is not true? If true,--the prompt valets would quickly
replace Monseigneur's wig; chasing his long strides; and silence,
in so dignified a man, would cloak whatever emotions there were.
[Adelung, iii. A, 154; &c. &c. <italic> Guerre de Boheme, <end
italic> (silent about the wig) admits, as all Books do, the perfect
clearness;--compare, however, <italic> OEuvres de Frederic; <end
italic> and also Broglio's strange darkness, twelve days later, and
Belleisle now beside him again (<italic> Campagnes des Trois
Marechaux, <end italic> v. 190, 191, of date 17th June);--darkness
due perhaps to the strange humor Broglio was then in?] He rolled
off, he and his, straightway to Dresden, there to invite
co-operation in the Budweis Project; there also in vain.--
"CO-operation," M. le Marechal? Alas, it has already come to
operation, if you knew it! Aud your Broglio is-- Better hurry back
to Prag, where you will find phenomena!

June 15th, Friedrich has a grand dinner of Generals at Maleschau;
and says, in proposing the first bumper, "Gentlemen, I announce to
you, that, as I never wished to oppress the Queen of Hungary, I
have formed the resolution of agreeing with that Princess, and
accepting the Proposals she has made me in satisfaction of my
rights,"--telling them withal what the chief terms were, and
praising my Lord Hyndford for his great services. Upon which was
congratulation, cordial, universal; and, with full rummers, "Health
to the Queen of Hungary!" followed by others of the like type,
"Grand-Duke of Lorraine!" and "The brave Prince Karl!" especially.

Brevity being incumbent on us, we shall say only that the Hyndford-
Podewils operations had been speeded, day and night; brought to
finis, in the form of Signed Preliminaries, as "Treaty of Breslau,
11th June, 1742;" and had gone to Friedrich's satisfaction in every
particular. Thanks to the useful Hyndford,--to the willing mind of
his Britannic Majesty, once so indignant, but made willing, nay
passionately eager, by his love of Human Liberty and the pressure
of events! To Hyndford, some weeks hence, [2d August
(<italic> Helden-Geschichte, <end italic> ii. 729).]--I conclude,
on Friedrich's request,--there was Order of the Thistle sent;
and grandest investiture ever seen almost, done by Friedrich upon
Hyndford (Jordan, Keyserling, Schwerin, and the Sword of State busy
in it; Two Queens and all the Berlin firmament looking on);
and, perhaps better still, on Friedrich's part there was gift of a
Silver Dinner-Service; gift of the Royal Prussian Arms (which do
enrich ever since the Shield of those Scottish Carmichaels, as
doubtless the Dinner-Service does their Plate-chest); and abundant
praise and honor to the useful Hyndford, heavy of foot, but sure,
who had reached the goal.

This welcome Treaty, signed at Breslau, June 11th, and confirmed by
"Treaty of Berlin, July 28th," in more explicit solemn manner, to
the self-same effect, can be read by him that runs (if compelled to
read Treaties); [In <italic> Helden-Geschichte, <end italic>
i. 1061-1064 (Treaty of Breslau), ib. 1065-1070 (that of Berlin);
to be found also in Wenck, Rousset, Scholl, Adeluug, &c.] the
terms, in compressed form, are:--

1. "Silesia, Lower and Upper, to beyond the watershed and the Oppa-
stream,--reserving only the Principality of Teschen, with
pertinents, which used to be reckoned Silesian, and the ulterior
Mountain-tops [Mountain-tops good for what? thought Friedrich, a
year or two afterwards!]--Silesia wholly, within those limits, and
furthermore the County Glatz and its dependencies, are and remain
the property of Friedrich and of his Heirs male or female;
given up, and made his, to all intents and purposes, forevermore.
With which Friedrich, to the like long date, engages to rest
satisfied, and claim nothing farther anywhere.

2. "Silesian Dutch-English Debt [Loan of about Two Millions, better
half of it English, contracted by the late Kaiser, on Silesian
security, in that dreadful Polish-Election crisis, when the Sea-
Powers would not help, but left it to their Stockbrokers] is
undertaken by Friedrich, who will pay interest on the same
till liquidated.

3. "Religion to stand where it is. Prussian Majesty not to meddle
in this present or in other Wars of her Hungarian Majesty, except
with his ardent wishes that General Peace would ensue, and that all
his friends, Hungarian Majesty among others, were living in good
agreement around him."

This is the Treaty of Breslau (June 11th, 1742), or, in second more
solemn edition, Treaty of Berlin (July 28th following);
signed, ratified, guaranteed by his Britannic Majesty for one,
[Treaty of Westminster, between Friedrich aud George, 29th (18th)
November, 1842 (Scholl, ii. 313).] and firmly planted on the
Diplomatic adamant (at least on the Diplomatic parchment) of this
world. And now: Homewards, then; march!--

Huge huzzaing, herald-trumpeting, bob-major-ing, bursts forth from
all Prussian Towns, especially from all Silesian ones, in those
June days, as the drums beat homewards; elaborate Illuminations, in
the short nights; with bonfires, with transparencies,--Transparency
inscribed "FREDERICO MAGNO (To Friedrich THE GREAT)," in one small
instance, still of premature nature. [<italic> Helden-Geschichte
<end italic> (ii. 702-729) is endless on these Illuminations;
the Jauer case, of FREDERICO MAGNO (Jauer in Silesia), is of June
15th (ib. 712).]

Omitting very many things, about Silesian Fortresses, Army-Cantons,
Silesian settlements, military and civil, which would but weary the
reader, we add only this from Bielfeld: dusty Transit of a
victorious Majesty, now on the threshold of home. Precise date
(which Bielfeld prudently avoids guessing at) is July 11th, 1742;
"M. de Pollnitz and I are in the suite of the King:--

"We never stopped on the road, except some hours at Frankfurt-on-
Oder, where the Fair was just going on. On approaching the Town, we
found the highway lined on both sides with crowds of traders, and
other strangers of all nations; who had come out, attracted by
curiosity to see the conqueror of Silesia, and had ranged
themselves in two rows there. His Majesty's entry into Frankfurt,
although a very triumphant one, was far from being ostentatious.
We passed like lightning before the eyes of the spectators, and we
were so covered with dust, that it was difficult to distinguish the
color of our coats and the features of our faces. We made some
purchases at Frankfurt; and arrived safely in the Capital [next
day], where the King was received amidst the acclamations of his
People." [Bielfeld, ii. 51.]

Here is a successful young King; is not he? Has plunged into the
Mahlstrom for his jewelled gold Cup, and comes up with it, alive,
unlamed. Will he, like that DIVER of Schiller's, have to try the
feat a second time? Perhaps a second time, and even a third!--





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