reinforcements did in part get through to him, and in part seek
refuge in Eger again. Broglio has encamped under the walls of Prag;
in a ruinous though still blusterous condition; his positions all
gone; except Prag and Eger, nothing in Bohemia now his."

PRAG, 17th JUNE-17th AUGUST. "It is in this condition that
Belleisle, returning from the Kuttenberg-Dresden mission (June
15th), finds his Broglio. Most disastrous, Belleisle thinks it;
and nothing but a Siege in Prag lying ahead; though Broglio is of
different opinion, or, blustering about his late miraculous
retreat, and other high merits too little recognized, forms no
opinion at all on such extraneous points. ... From Versailles, they
had auswered Belleisle: 'Nothing to be made of Dresden either, say
you? Then go you and take the command at Prag; send Broglio to
command the Bavarian Army. See, you, what can be done by fighting.'
On this errand Belleisle is come, the heavy-laden man, and Valori
with him,--if, in this black crisis, Valori could do anything.
Valori at least reports the colloquy the Two Marshals had [one bit
of colloquy, for they had more than one, though as few as possible;
Broglio being altogether blusterous, sulphurous, difficult to speak
with on polite terms]. [Valori, i. 162-166; Campagnes,
v. 170, 124, &c. &c.] 'Army of Bavaria?' answers
Broglio; 'I will have those Ten Battalions of the D'Harcourt
reinforcement, then. I tell you, Yes! Prag? Prag may go to the--
What have I to do with Prag? The oldest Marechal of France,
superseded, after such merits, and on the very heel of such a
retreat! Nay, but where is YOUR commission to command in Prag,
M. le Marechal?' Belleisle, in the haste there was, has no
Commission rightly drawn out by the War-office; only an Order from
Court. '_I_ have a regular commission, Monseigneur: I want a Sign-