HOW DUC D'HARCOURT, ADVANCING TO REINFORCE THE ORIFLAMME,
HAD TO SPLIT HIMSELF IN TWO; AND BECOME AN "ARMY OF
BAVARIA," TO LITTLE EFFECT.

The poor Kaiser, who at one time counted "30,000 Bavarians of his
own," has all along been ill served by them and the bad Generals
they had: two Generals; both of whom, Minuzzi, and old
Feldmarschall Thorring (Prime Minister withal), came to a bad
reputation in this War. Beaten nearly always; Thorring quite
always,--"like a DRUM, that Thorring; never heard of except when
beaten," said the wits! Of such let us not speak. Understand only,
FIRST, that the French, reasonably soon after that Linz explosion,
did, in such crisis, get reinforcements on the road; a Duc
d'Harcourt with some 25,000 faring forward, in an intermittent
manner, ever since "March 4th." And SECONDLY, that Khevenhuller has
fast hold of Passau, the Austrian-Bavarian Key-City; is master of
nearly all Bavaria (of Munchen, and all that lies south of the
Donau); and is now across on the north shore, wrenching and tugging
upon Kelheim and the Ingolstadt-Donauworth regions, with nothing
but Thorring people and small French Garrisons to hinder him;--
where it will be fatal if he quite prosper; Ingolstadt being our
Place-of-Arms, and House on the Highway, both for Bavaria
and Bohemia!

"For months past, there had been a gleam of hope for Kaiser Karl,
and his new 'Kingdom of Bohemia,' and old Electorate of Bavaria,
from the rumor of 'D'Harcourt's reinforcement,'--a 20 or 30,000 new
Frenchmen marching into those parts, in a very detached
intermittent manner; great in the Gazettes. But it proved a gleam