unctually paid her, were confiscated to the King,--and by him
were made over to the Schools of Breslau and Glogau, which, I doubt
not, enjoy them to this day. Reverend Gerlach in Schonbrunn, Kappel and
Kappel's Bursch, were all attended to, and properly rewarded, though
there are rumors to the contrary. Hussar-Colonel Wallis got no public
promotion, though it is not doubted the Head People had been well
cognizant of his ingenious intentions. Official Vienna, like mankind
in general, shuddered to own him; the great Counts Wallis at Vienna
published in the Newspapers, "Our House has no connection with that
gentleman;"--and, in fact, he was of Irish breed, it seems, the name of
him WallISCH (or Walsh), if one cared. Warkotsch died at Raab (THIS side
the farthest corner of Turkey), in 1769: his poor Baroness had vanished
from Silesia five years before, probably to join him. He had some
pension or aliment from the Austrian Court; small or not so small is a
disputed point.

And this is, more minutely than need have been, in authentic form only
too diffuse, the once world-famous Warkotsch Tragedy or Wellnigh-Tragic
Melodrama; which is still interesting and a matter of study, of pathos
and minute controversy, to the patriot and antiquary in Prussian
Countries, though here we might have been briefer about it. It would,
indeed, have "finished the War at once;" and on terms delightful to
Austria and its Generals near by. But so would any unit of the million
balls and bullets which have whistled round that same Royal Head, and
have, every unit of them, missed like Warkotsch! Particular Heads, royal
and other, meant for use in the scheme of things, are not to be hit on
any terms till the use is had.

Friedrich settled in Breslau for the Winter, December 9th. From
Colberg bad news meet him in Breslau; bad and ever worse: Colberg,
not Warkotsch, is the interesting matter there, for a fortnight
coming,--till Colberg end, it also irremediable. The Russian hope
on Colberg is, long since, limited to that of famine. We said the
conveyance of Supplies, across such a Hundred Miles of wilderness,
from Stettin thither, with Russians and the Winter gainsaying, was the
difficulty. Our short Note continues:--

"In fact, it is the impossibility: trial after trial goes on, in a
strenuous manner, but without success. October 13th, Green Kleist tries;
October 22d, Knobloch and even Platen try. For the next two months there
is trial on trial made (