for everything." [Letter itself, of brief magnanimous strain, in
Campagnes de Noailles, i. 127; date "Neuwied,
26th April, 1743" (Adelung, iii. B, 114).] For the rest, they are
in no hurry. They linger in that Frankfurt-Nainz region, all
through the month of May; not unobservant of Noailles and his
movements, if he made any; but occupied chiefly with gathering
provisions; forming, with difficulty, a Magazine in Hanau.
"What they intended: or intend, by coming hither?" asks the Public
everywhere: "To go into the Donau Countries, and enclose Broglio
between two fires?" That had been, and was still, Stair's fine
idea; but D'Ahremberg had disapproved the methods. D'Ahremberg, it
seems, is rather given to opposing Stair;--and there rise
uncertainties, in this Pragmatic Army: certain only hitherto the
Magazine in Hanau. And in secret, it afterwards appeared, the
immediate real errand of this Pragmatic Army had lain--in the
Chapter of Mainz Cathedral, and an Election that was going
on there.

The old Kur-Mainz, namely, had just died; and there was a new
"Chief Spiritual Kurfurst" to be elected by the Canons there.
Kur-Mainz is Chairman of the Reich, an important personage,
analogous to Speaker of the House of Commons; and ought to be,--by
no means the Kaiser's young Brother, as the French and Kaiser are
proposing; but a man with Austrian leanings;--say, Graf von Ostein,
titular DOM-CUSTOS (Cathedral Keeper) here; lately Ambassador in
London, and known in select society for what he is. Not much of an
Archbishop, of a Spiritual or Chief Spiritual Herr hitherto;
but capable of being made one,--were the Pragmatic Army at his
elbow! It was on this errand that the Pragmatic Army had come
hither, or come so early, and with their plans still unripe.