Wilhelm's part; who pities the poor Kaiser, and would fain see him
back at Frankfurt, and awaken the Britannic magnanimities for him.
"To Frankfurt, say you? We cannot fight against the Kaiser!"--and
they had to be left behind, for some time; but at length did come
on, though late for business, as it chanced. General of these
Hessians is Prince George of Hessen, worthy stout gentleman, whom
Wilhelmina met at the Frankfurt Gayeties lately. George's elder
Brother Wilhelm is Manager or Vice-Landgraf, this long while back;
and in seven or eight years hence became, as had been expected,
actual Landgraf (old King of Sweden dying childless);--of which
Wilhelm we shall have to hear, at Hanau (a Town of his in those
parts), and perhaps slightly elsewhere, in the course of this
business. A fat, just man, he too; probably somewhat iracund;
not without troubles in his House. His eldest Son, Heir-Apparent of
Hessen, let me remind readers, has an English Princess to Wife;
Princess Mary, King George's Daughter, wedded two years ago.
That, added to the Subsidies, is surely a point of union;--though
again there may such discrepancies rise! A good while after this,
the eldest Son becoming Catholic (foolish wretch), to the horror of
Papa,--there rose still other noises in the world, about Hessen and
its Landgraves. Of good Prince George, who doubtless attended in
War Councils, but probably said little, we hope to hear nothing
more whatever.

From Neuwied to Frankfurt is but a few days' march for the
Pragmatic Army; in a direct line, not sixty miles. Frankfurt
itself, which is a REICHS-STADT (Imperial City), they must not
enter: "Fear not, City or Country!" writes Stair to it: "We come as
saviors, pacificators, hostile to your enemies and disturbers only;
we understand discipline and the Laws of the Reich, and will pay