ready to strike the stars with her sublime head. "My little Paladin
become Supreme Jove, too: aha!"


BRITANNIC MAJESTY HOLDS HIS CONFERENCES OF HANAU.

Britannic Majesty stayed two whole months in Hanau, brushing
himself up again after that fierce bout; and considering, with much
dubitation, What is the next thing? "Go in upon Noailles [who is
still hanging about here, with Broglio coming on in the exploded
state]; wreck Broglio and him! Go in upon the French!" so urges
Stair always: rash Stair, urgent to the edge of importunity;
English Officers and Martial Boy urgently backing Stair; while the
Hanoverian Officers and Martial Parent are steady to the other
view. So that, in respect of War, the next thing, for two months
coming, was absolutely nothing, and to the end of the Campaign was
nothing worth a moment's notice from us. But on the Diplomatic
side, there were two somethings, CONFERENCES AT HANAU with poor
Kaiser Karl, and TREATY AT WORMS with the King of Sardinia;
which--as minus quantities, or things less than nothing--turned out
to be highly considerable for his Britannic Majesty and us.

HANAU, 7th July-1st AUGUST, 1743. "Poor Kaiser Karl had left
Augsburg June 26th,--while his Broglio was ferrying at Donauworth,
and his Seckendorf treatying for Armistice at Nieder-Schonfeld,--
the very day before Dettingen. What a piece of news to him, that
Dettingen, on his return to Frankfurt!

"A few days after Dettingen, July 3d, Noailles, who is still within
call, came across to see this poor stepson of Fortune;