how! 'I consent,' said the Kaiser; 'will forgive and forget, and
bygones shall be bygones all round!' 'Fair on his Imperial
Majesty's part,' admits Carteret; 'we will try to be persuasive at
Vienna. Difficult, but we will try.' In a meek matters had come to
this point; and the morrow, July 15th, was appointed for signing.
Most important of Protocols, foundation-stone of Peace to
Teutschland; King Friedrich and the impartial Powers approving,
with Britannic George and drawn sword presiding.

"King Friedrich approves heartily; and hopes it will do.
Landgraf Wilhelm is proud to have saved his Kaiser,--who so glad as
the Landgraf and his Kaiser? Carteret, too, is very glad;
exulting, as he well may, to have composed these world-deliriums,
or concentrated them upon peccant France, he with his single head,
and to have got a value out of that absurd Pragmatic Army, after
all. A man of magnificent ideas; who hopes 'to bring Friedrich over
to his mind;' to unite poor Teutschland against such Oriflamme
Invasions and intolerable interferences, and to settle the account
of France for a long while. He is the only English Minister who
speaks German, knows German situations, interests, ways; or has the
least real understanding of this huge German Imbroglio in which
England is voluntarily weltering. And truly, had Carteret been King
of England, which he was not,--nay, had King Friedrich ever got to
understand, instead of misunderstand, what Carteret WAS,--here
might have been a considerable affair!

"But it now, at the eleventh hour, came upon magnificent Carteret,
now seemingly for the first time in its full force, That he
Carteret was not the master; that there was a bewildered Parliament
at home, a poor peddling Duke of Newcastle leader of the same, with