strict Oath of Fealty to HER; poor Kaiser protesting his uttermost,
to no purpose; Kaiser's poor Printer (at Regensburg, which is in
Bavaria) getting "tried and hanged" for printing such Protest!
"She draughts forcibly the Bavarian militias into her Italian
Army;" is high and merciless on all hands;--in a word, throttles
poor Bavaria, as if to the choking of it outright. So that the very
Gazetteers in foreign places gave voice, though Bavaria itself,
such a grasp on the throat of it, was voiceless. Seckendorf's poor
Bargain for neutrality as a Bavarian Reich-Army, her Hungarian
Majesty disdains to confirm; to confirm, or even to reject;
treats Seckendorf and his Bavarian Army little otherwise than as a
stray dog which she has not yet shot. And truly the old
Feldmarschall lies at Wembdingen, in most disconsolate moulting
condition; little or nothing to live upon;--the English, generous
creatures, had at one time flung him something, fancying the
Armistice might be useful; but now it must be the French that do
it, if anybody! [Adelung, iii. B, 204 ("22d Angust"), 206, &c.]

Hanau Conferences having failed, these things do not fail.
Kaiser Karl is become tragical to think of. A spectacle of pity to
Landgraf Wilhelm, to King Friedrich, and serious on-lookers;--and
perhaps not of pity only, but of "pity and fear" to some of them!--
sullen Austria taking its sweet revenges, in this fashion.
Readers who will look through these small chinks, may guess what a
world-welter this was; and how Friedrich, gazing into phase on
phase of it, as into Oracles of Fate, which to him they were, had a
History, in these months, that will now never be known.

August 16th came out her Hungarian Majesty's Response to that mild
quasi-penitent Declaration of King Louis to the Reich; and much