suffocating in its Constitutional bedclothes), the Treaty could not
be kept at all, or serve as rule to poor England's exertions for
Friedrich this Year; exertions which were of the willing-minded but
futile kind, going forward pell-mell, not by plan, and could reach
Friedrich only in the lump,--had there been any "lump" of them to
sum together. But Pitt had gone out;--we shall see what, in Pitt's
absence, there was! So that this Treaty 1757 fell quite into the
waste-basket (not to say, far deeper, by way of "pavement" we know
where!),--and is not mentioned in any English Book; nor was known
to exist, till some Collector of such things printed it, in
comparatively recent times. ["M. Koch in 1802," not very perfectly
(Scholl, iii. 30 n.; who copies what Koch has given).] A Treaty
1757, which, except as emblem of the then quasi-enchanted condition
of England, and as Foreshadow of Pitt's new Treaty in January,
1758, and of three others that followed and were kept to the
letter, is not of moment farther.


REICH'S THUNDER, SLIGHT SURVEY OF IT; WITH QUESTION,
WHITHERWARD, IF ANY-WHITHER.

The thunderous fulminations in the Reich's-Diet--an injured Saxony
complaining, an insulted Kaiser, after vain DEHORTATORIUMS,
reporting and denouncing "Horrors such as these: What say you, O
Reich?"--have been going on since September last; and amount to
boundless masses of the liveliest Parliamentary Eloquence, now
fallen extinct to all creatures. [Given, to great lengths, in
Helden-Geschichte, iii. iv. (and other easily
avoidable Books).] The Kaiser, otherwise a solid pacific gentleman,
intent on commercial operations (furnishes a good deal of our meal,