BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN; AND
BECOMES SUPREME JOVE OF GERMANY, IN A MANNER.

Brittanic Majesty with his Yarmouth, and martial Prince of
Cumberland, arrived at Hanover May 15th; soon followed by Carteret
from the Hague: [ Biographia Britannica
(Kippin's,? Carteret), iii. 277.] a Majesty prepared now for battle
and for treaty alike; kind of earthly Jove, Arbiter of Nations, or
victorious Hercules of the Pragmatic, the sublime little man.
At Herrenhausen he has a fine time; grandly fugling about;
negotiating with Wilhelm of Hessen and others; commanding his
Pragmatic Army from the distance: and then at last, dashing off
rather in haste, he-- It is well known what enigmatic Exploit he
did, at least the Name of it is well known! Here, from the
Imbroglios, is a rough Account; parts of which are introducible for
the sake of English readers.


BATTLE OF DETTINGEN.

"After some five leisurely weeks in Herrenhausen, George II. (now
an old gentleman of sixty), with his martial Fat Boy the Duke of
Cumberland, and Lord Carteret his Diplomatist-in-Chief, quitted
that pleasant sojourn, rather on a sudden, for the actual Seat of
War. By speedy journeys they got to Frankfurt Country; to Hanau,
June 19th; whence, still up the Mayn, twenty or thirty miles
farther up, to Aschaffenburg,--where the Pragmatic Army, after some
dangerous manoeuvring on the opposite or south bank of the River,
has lain encamped some days, and is in questionable posture.
Whither his Majesty in person has hastened up. And truly, if his