unheard-of treatments of Saxony and disregard to our
DEHORTATORIUMS, and which bursts out, peal after peal, filling the
Universe, Plotho not unvigilant;--the poor old Reich's-Diet did at
last get into an acting posture, and determine, by clear majority
of 99 against 60, that there should be a "Reich's Execution Army"
got on foot. Reich's Execution Army to coerce, by force of arms,
this nefarious King of Prussia into making instant restitution to
Saxony, with ample damages on the nail; that right be done to
Kurfursts of this Reich. To such height of vigor has the Reich's-
Diet gone;--and was voting it at Regensburg January 10th, 1757;
[ Helden-Geschichte, iv. 252, 302, 330;
Stenzel, v. 32.] that very day when nefarious Friedrich at Berlin,
case-hardened in iniquity to such a pitch, sat writing his
INSTRUCTION TO COUNT FINCK, which we read not long since.
Simultaneous movements, unknown to one another, in this
big wrestle.

Reich's-Diet perfected its Vote; had it quite through, and
sanctioned by the Kaiser's Majesty, January 29th: "Arming to be a
TRIPLUM" (triple contingent required of you this time);
with Romish-months (ROMERMONATE) of cash contributions from all and
sundry (rigorously gathered, I should hope, where Austria has
power), so many as will cover the expense. Army to be got on actual
foot hastily, instantly if possible: an "EILENDE REICHS-EXECUTIONS
ARMEE;" so it ran, but the word EILENDE (speedy) had a mischance in
printing, and was struck off into ELENDE (contemptibly wretched):
so that on all Market-Squares and Public Places of poor
Teutschland, you read flaming Placards summoning out, not a speedy
or immediate, but "a MISERABLE Reich's Execution Army!" A word
which, we need not say, was laughed at by the unfeeling part of the