gives piteous account of him, if any one were now curious on that
head: How he bitterly complains of Broglio, of the no-subsidies
sent, and is driven nearly desperate;--not a penny in his pocket,
beyond all. Upon which latter clause Noailles munificently advanced
him a $6,000. 'Draught of 40,000 crowns, in my own name; which
doubtless the King, in his compassion, will see good to sanction.'
[ Campagnes de Noailles (Amsterdam, 1760:
this is a Sequel, or rather VICE VERSA, to that which we have
called DES TROIS MARECHAUX, being of the same Collection),
i. 316-328.] His feelings on the loss of Dettingen may be pictured.
But he had laid his account with such things;--prepared for the
worst, since that Interview with Broglio and Conti; one plan now
left, 'Peace, cost what it will!'

"The poor Kaiser had already, as we saw, got into hopes of
bargaining with his Britannic Majesty; and now he instantly sets
about it, while Hanau is victorious head-quarters. Britannic
Majesty is not himself very forward; but Carteret, I rather judge,
had taken up the notion; and on his Majesty's and Carteret's part,
there is actually the wish and attempt to pacificate the Reich;
to do something tolerable for the poor Kaiser, as well as
satisfactory to the Hungarian Majesty,--satisfactory, or capable of
being (by the Purse-holder) insisted on as such.

"And so the Landgraf of Hessen, excellent Wilhelm, King George's
friend and gossip, is come over to that little Town of Hanau, which
is his own, in the Schloss of which King George is lodged:
and there, between Carteret and our Landgraf,--the King of
Prussia's Ambassador (Herr Klinggraf), and one or two selectly
zealous Official persons, assisting or watching,--we have