Jennings,--to cover gently, by art-magic, the Britannic Majesty and
Fat Boy under a tub; and to put Britain, and British Parliament and
resources, into Stair's hand for a few years,--who knows what Stair
too might have done! A Marlborough in the War Arts,--perhaps still
less in the Peace ones, if we knew the great Marlborough,--he could
not have been. But there is in him a recognizable flash of
magnanimity, of heroic enterprise and purpose; which is highly
peculiar in that sordid element. And it can be said of him, as of
lightning striking ineffectual on the Bog of Allen or the Stygian
Fens, that his strrngth was never tried."--For the upshot of him we
will wait; not very long.

These are fine prospects, if only the Dutch prove hoistable.
But these are as nothing to what is passing, and has passed, in the
Eastern Parts, in the Bohemian-Bavarian quarter, since we were
there. Poor Kaiser Karl, what an outlook for him! His own real
Bavaria, much more his imaginary "Upper Austria" and "Conquests on
the Donau," after that Segur Adventure, are plunging headlong.
As to his once "Kingdom of Bohemia," it has already plunged;
nay, the Army of the Oriflamme is itself near plunging, in spite of
that Pharsalia of a Sahay! Bavaria itself, we say, is mostly gone
to Khevenhuller; Segur with his French on march homeward, and
nothing but Bavarians left. Thz Belleisle-Broglio grand Budweis
Expedition is gone totally heels over head; Belleisle and Broglio
are getting, step by step, shut up in Prag and besieged there:
while Maillebois--Let us try whether, by snatching out here a
fragment and there a fragment, with chronological and other
appliances, it be not possible to give readers some conceivable
notion of what Friedrich was now looking at with such interest!--