, armed men here, and the counter
hundreds of thousands arming--has been a pretty stroke of dragon's-teeth
husbandry on Belleisle's part.

BELLEISLE ON VISIT TO FRIEDRICH; SEES FRIEDRICH BESIEGE BRIEG, WITH
EFFECT.

It was April 26th when Marechal de Belleisle, with his Brother the
Chevalier, with Valori and other bright accompaniment, arrived in
Friedrich's Camp. "Camp of Mollwitz" so named; between Mollwitz and
Brieg; where Friedrich is still resting, in a vigilant expectant
condition; and, except it be the taking of Brieg, has nothing military
on hand. Wednesday, 26th April, the distinguished Excellency--escorted
for the last three miles by 120 Horse, and the other customary
ceremonies--makes his appearance: no doubt an interesting one to
Friedrich, for this and the days next following. Their talk is not
reported anywhere: nor is it said with exactitude how far, whether
wholly now, or only in part now, Belleisle expounded his sublime ideas
to Friedrich; or what precise reception they got. Friedrich himself
writes long afterwards of the event; but, as usual, without precision,
except in general effect. Now, or some time after, Friedrich says he
found Belleisle, one morning, with brow clouded, knit into intense
meditation: "Have you had bad news, M. le Marechal?" asks
Friedrich. "No, oh no! I am considering what we shall make of that
Moravia?"--"Moravia; Hm!" Friedrich suppresses the glance that is rising
to his eyes: "Can't you give it to Saxony, then? Buy Saxony into the
Plan with it!" "Excellent," answers Belleisle, and unpuckers his stern
brow again.

Friedrich thinks highly, and about this time often says so, of the man
Belleisle: but as to the man's effulgencies, and wide-winged Plans, none
is less seduced by them than Friedrich: "Your chickens are not hatched,
M. le Marechal; some of us hope they never will be,--though the
incubation-process may have uses for some of us!" Friedrich knows that
the Kaisership given to any other than Grand-Duke Franz will be mostly
an imaginary quantity. "A grand Symbolic Cloak in the eyes of the
vulgar; but empty of all things, empty even of cash, for the last Two
Hundred Years: Austria can wear it to advantage; no other mortal.
Hang it on Austria, which is a solid human figure,--so." And Friedrich
wishes, and hopes always, Maria Theresa will agree with him, and get it
for her Husband. "But to hang it on Bavaria, which is a lean bare pole?
Oh, M. le Marechal!--And those