Prag. Friedrich being now off their hands, why should not they
besiege Prag, capture Prag! Under Khevenhullcr, with Barenklau, and
the Mentzels, Trencks,--poor D'Harcourt merely storing victual,--
Bavaria lies safe enough. And the Oriflamme caged in Prag:--Have at
the Oriflamme!

"Prag is begirdled, straitened more and more, from this day.
Formal Siege to begin, so soon 'as the artillery can come up' which is not for seven weeks yet]. And so, in fine, 'AUGUST 17th, all at
once,' furious bombardment bursts out, from 36 mortars and above
100 big guns, disposed in batteries around. [ Guerre de
Boheme, ii. 149, 170.] To which the French,
Belleisle's high soul animating everything, as furiously responded;
making continual sallies of a hot desperate nature; especially, on
the fifth day of the siege, one sally [to be mentioned by and by]
which was very famous at Prag and at Paris." ...


CONCERNING THE ITALIAN WAR WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY WENT ON, ALL ALONG.

War in Italy--the Spanish Termagant very high in her Anti-Pragmatic
notions--there had been, for eight months past; and it went on,
fiercely enough, doggedly enough, on both sides for Six Years more,
till 1748, when the general Finis came. War of which we propose to
say almost nothing; but must request the reader to imagine it, all
along, as influential on our specific affairs.

The Spanish Termagant wished ardently to have the Milanese and
pertinents, as an Apanage for her second Infant, Don Philip; a
young gentleman who now needs to be provided for, as Don Carlos had
once done. "Cannot get to be Pope this one, it appears," said the