says Friedrich), is Officially extremely violent in behalf of
injured Saxony,--that is to say, in fact, of injured Austria, which
is one's own. Kur-Mainz, Chairman of the Diet (we remember how he
was got, and a Battle of Dettingen fought in consequence, long
since); Kur-Mainz is admitted to have the most decided Austrian
leanings: Britannic George, Austria being now in the opposite
scale, finds him an unhandy Kur-Mainz, and what profit it was to
introduce false weights into the Reich's balance that time! Not for
long generations before, had the poor old semi-imaginary Reich's-
Diet risen into such paroxysms; nor did it ever again after.
Never again, in its terrestrial History, was there such agonistic
parliamentary struggle, and terrific noise of parliamentary
palaver, witnessed in the poor Reich's-Diet. Noise and struggle
rising ever higher, peal after peal, from September, 1756, when it
started, till August, 1757, when it had reached its acme (as
perhaps we shall see), though it was far from ending then, or for
years to come.

Contemporary by-standers remark, on the Austrian part,
extraordinary rage and hatred against Prussia; which is now the one
point memorable. Austria is used to speak loud in the Diet, as we
have ourselves seen: and it is again (if you dive into those old
AEolus'-Caves, at your peril) unpleasantly notable to what pitch of
fixed rage, and hot sullen hatred Austria has now gone; and how the
tone has in it a potency of world-wide squealing and droning, such
as you nowhere heard before. Omnipotence of droning, edged with
shrieky squealing, which fills the Universe, not at all in a
melodious way. From the depths of the gamut to the shrieky top
again,--a droning that has something of porcine or wild-boar
character. Figure assembled the wild boars of the world, all or