always disliked war. The French public too,--we can fancy what a
public! The young Nobility in Prag has its spokes-men, and spokes-
women, at Versailles, whose complaint waxes louder, shriller;
the whole world, excited by rumor of those furious sallies, is
getting shrill and loud. What can old Fleury do but order
Maillebois: 'Leave Dunkirk to its own luck; march immediately for
relief of Prag!' And Maillebois is already on march; his various
divisions (August 9th-20th) crossing the Rhine, in Dusseldorf
Country;"--of whom we shall hear.

... "Some time before the actual Bombardment, Fleury, seeing it
inevitable, had ordered Belleisle to treat. Belleisle accordingly
had an interview, almost two interviews, with Konigseck.
[ Guerre de Boheme, ii. 156 ("2d July" the actual
interview); ib. 161 (the corollary to it, confirmatory of it, which
passed by letters).] 'Liberty to march home, and equitable Peace-
Negotiations in the rear?' proposed Belleisle. 'Absolute surrender;
Prisoners of War!' answered Konigseck; 'such is her Hungarian
Majesty's positive order and ultimatum.' The high Belleisle
responded nothing unpolite; merely some, 'ALORS, MONSIEUR--!'
And rode back to Prag, with a spirit all in white heat;--gradually
heating all the 24,000 white, and keeping them so.

"In fact, Belleisle, a high-flown lion reduced to silence and now
standing at bay, much distinguishes himself in this Siege;
which, for his sake, is still worth a moment's memory from mankind.
He gathers himself into iron stoicism, into concentration of
endeavor; suffers all things, Broglio's domineering in the first
place; as if his own thin skin were that of a rhinoceros; and is
prepared to dare all things. Like an excellent soldier, like an