uly, 1761:" in
THACKERAY, ii. 561-562.] The end, however, was: next Winter, Broglio
got dismissed, in favor of Soubise;--rest from shrieky jargon having its
value to some of us; and 'hold of Hanover' being now plainly a matter
hopeless to France and us."

In this Battle a fine young Prince of Brunswick got killed; Erbprinz's
second Brother;--leading on a Regiment of BERG-SCHOTTEN, say the
accounts. [_"The Life of Prince Albert Henry_ [had lived only 19 years,
poor youth, not much of a "Life"!--but the account of his Education is
worth reading, from a respectable Eye-witness] _of Brunswick-Luneburg,
Brother to the Hereditary Prince; who so eminently &c. at Fellinghausen_
&c. &c. (London, Printed for &c. 1763). _Written originally in German
by the Rev. Mr. Hierusalem"_ (Father of the "Young Jerusalem" who
killed himself afterwards, and became, in a sense, Goethe's WERTHER
and SORROWS). Price, probably, Twopence).] Berg-Schotten, and English
generally, Pembroke's Horse, Cavendish's Brigade,--we have mentioned
their behavior; and how Maxwell's Brigade took one whole regiment
prisoners, in that final charge on Broglio. "What a glorious set of
fellows!" said the English people over their beer at home. Beer let us
fancy it; at the sign of THE MARQUIS OF GRANBY, which is now everywhere
prevalent and splendent;--the beer, we will hope, good. And as this is
a thing still said, both over beer and higher liquors, and perhaps
is liable to be too much insisted on, I will give, from a caudid
By-stander, who knows the matter well, what probably is a more solid
and circumstantially correct opinion. Speaking of Ferdinand's skill
of management, and of how very composite a kind his Army was, Major
Mauvillon has these words:--

"The first in rank," of Ferdinand's Force, "were the English; about
a fourth part of the whole Army. Braver troops, when on the field of
battle and under arms against the enemy, you will nowhere find in the
world: that is a truth;--and with that the sum of their military merits
ends. In the first place, their Infantry consists of such an unselected
hand-over-head miscellany of people, that it is highly difficult to
preserve among them even a shadow of good discipline,"--of MANNSZUCHT,
in regard to plunder, drinking and the like; does not mean KRIEGSZUCHT,
or drill. "Their Cavalry indeed is not so constituted; but a foolish
love for their horses makes them astonishingly plunderous of forage;
and thus they exhaust a