not, lay on his People. His SCHATZ (ready-money Treasure, or Hoard
yearly accumulating for such end) is, I doubt not, well filled,--
express amount not mentioned. Of drilled men he has, this Year,
150,000 for the field; portioned out thriftily,--as well beseems,
against Four Invasions coming on him from different points. In the
field, 150,000 soldiers, probably the best that ever were; and in
garrison, up and down (his Country being, by nature, the least
defensible of all Countries), near 40,000, which he reckons of
inferior quality. So stands the account. [Stenzel, iv. 308, 306,
v. 39; Ranke, iii. 415; Preuss, ii, 389, 43, 124; &c. &c.;--
substantially true, I doubt not; but little or nothing of it so
definite and conclusively distinct as it ought, in all items, to
have been by this time,--had poor Dryasdust known what he was
doing.] These are, arithmetically precise, his resources,--PLUS
only what may lie in his own head and heart, or funded in the other
heads and hearts, especially in those 150,000, which he and his
Fathers have been diligently disciplining, to good perfection, for
four centuries come the time.

France, urged by Pompadour and the enthusiasms, was first in the
field. The French Army, in superb equipment, though privately in
poorish state of discipline, took the road early in March;
"March 26th and 27th," it crossed the German Border, Cleve Country
and Koln Country; had been rumored of since January and February
last, as terrifically grand; and here it now actually is, above
100,000 strong,--110,405, as the Army-Lists, flaming through all
the Newspapers, teach mankind. [ Helden-Geschichte, italic> iv. 391; iii. 1073.] Bent mainly upon Prussia, it would
seem; such the will of Pompadour. Mainly upon Prussia; Marechal
d'Estrees, crossing at Koln, made offers even to his Britannic