travail-throes for Baby Carlos's Apanage, let the too oblivious
reader accept the following Extract, to keep him on a level with
Public "Events," as they are pleased to denominate themselves:--

"By that dreadful Treaty of Seville, Cardinal Fleury and the
Spaniards should have joined with England, and coerced the Kaiser
VI ET ARMIS to admit Spanish Garrisons [instead of neutral] into
Parma and Piacenza, and so secure Baby Carlos his heritage there,
which all Nature was in travail till he got. 'War in Italy to a
certainty!' said all the Newspapers, after Seville:
and Crown-Prince Friedrich, we saw, was running off to have a
stroke in said War;--inevitable, as the Kaiser still obstinately
refused. And the English, and great George their King, were ready.
Nevertheless, no War came. Old Fleury, not wanting war, wanting
only to fish out something useful for himself,--Lorraine how
welcome, and indeed the smallest contributions are welcome!--
Old Fleury manoeuvred, hung back; till the Spaniards and Termagant
Elizabeth lost all patience, and the very English were weary, and
getting auspicious. Whereupon the Kaiser edged round to the
Sea-Powers again, or they to him; and comfortable AS-YOU-WERE was
got accomplished: much to the joy of Friedrich Wilhelm and others.
Here are some of the dates to these sublime phenomena:

"MARCH 16th, 1731, Treaty of Vienna, England and the Kaiser
coalescing again into comfortable AS-YOU-WERE. Treaty done by
Robinson [Sir Thomas, ultimately Earl of Grantham, whom we shall
often hear of in time coming]; was confirmed and enlarged by a
kind of second edition, 22d July, 1731; Dutch joining, Spain
itself acceding, and all being now right. Which could hardly have
been expected.