imitation tournaments, modern "tin-tournaments," out of sight; and
perhaps equalling the Field of the Cloth of Gold, or Barbarossa's
Mainz Tournament in ancient times. It lasted for a month,
regardless of expense,--June month of the year 1730;--and from far
and wide the idle of mankind ran, by the thousand, to see it.
Shall the thing be abolished utterly,--as perhaps were proper, had
not our Crown-Prince been there, with eyes very open to it, and
yet with thoughts very shut;--or shall some flying trace of the
big Zero be given? Riddling or screening certain cart-loads of
heavy old German printed rubbish, [Chiefly the terrible
compilation called Helden-Staats und Lebens-Geschichte
des, &c. Friedrichs des Andern (History Heroical,
Political and Biographical of Friedrich the Second), Frankfurt and
Leipzig, 1759-1760, vol, i. first HALF, pp. 171-210. There are ten
thick and thin half-volumes, and perhaps more. One of the most
hideous imbroglios ever published under the name of Book,--without
vestige of Index, and on paper that has no margin and cannot stand
ink,--yet with many curious articles stuffed blindly into the
awful belly of it, like jewels into a rag-sack, or into TEN
rag-sacks all in one; with far more authenticity than you could
expect in such case. Let us call it, for brevity,
Helden-Geschichte, in future references.] to
omit the Hotham Despatches, we obtained the following shovelful of
authentic particulars, perhaps not quite insupportable to
existing mankind.

The exact size of the Camp of Radewitz I nowhere find measured;
but to judge on the map, [At p. 214.] it must have covered, with
its appendages, some ten or twelve square miles of ground. All on
the Elbe, right bank of the Elbe; Town of Muhlberg, chief Town of