triumph over! Shortly after Chotusitz, shortly after that Pharsalia
of a Sahay, readers remember Belleisle's fine Project, "Conjoined
attack on Budweis, and sweeping of Bohemia clear;"--readers saw
Belleisle, in the Schloss of Maleschau, 5th June last, rushing out
(with violence to his own wig, says rumor); hurrying off to Dresden
for co-operation; equally in vain. "Co-operation, M. le Marechal;
attack on Budweis?"--Here is another Fragment:--


HOW BELLEISLE, RETURNING FROM DRESDEN WITHOUT CO-OPERATION,
FOUND THE ATTACK HAD BEEN DONE,--IN A FATALLY REVERSE WAY.
PRAG EXPECTING SIEGE. COLLOQUY WITH BROGLIO ON THAT
INTERESTING POINT. PRAG BESIEGED.

BUDWEIS, JUNE 4th,-PRAG, JUNE 13th. "Broglio, ever since that Sahay
[which had been fought so gloriously on Frauenberg's account], lay
in the Castle of Frauenberg, in and around,--hither side of the
Moldau river, with his Pisek thirty miles to rear, and judicious
outposts all about. There lay Broglio, meditating the attack on
Budweis [were co-operation once here],--when, contrariwise,
altogether on the sudden, Budweis made attack on Broglio;
tumbled him quite topsy-turvy, and sent him home to Prag, uncertain
which end uppermost; rolling like a heap of mown stubble in the
wind, rather than marching like an army!" ... Take one glance
at him:--

"JUNE 4th, 1742 [day BEFORE that of Belleisle's "Wig" at Maleschau,
had Belleisle known it!]--Prince Karl, being now free of the
Prussians, and ready for new work, issued suddenly from Budweis;
suddenly stept across the Moldau,--by the Bridge of Moldau-Tein,