f Cassel, in woody
broken country of Hill and Dale, favorable for strategic contrivances,
had organized a beautiful movement from many sides, hoping to overwhelm
the too careless or too ignorant French, and gain a signal victory over
them: BATTLE, so called, OF WILHELMSTHAL, JUNE 24th, 1762, being the
result. Mauvillon never can forgive a certain stupid Hanoverian, who
mistook his orders; and on getting to his Hill-top, which was the centre
of all the rest,--formed himself with his BACK to the point of attack;
and began shooting cannon at next to nothing, as if to warn the French,
that they had better instantly make off! Which they instantly set about,
with a will; and mainly succeeded in; nothing all day but mazes
of intricate marching on both sides, with spurts of fight here and
there,--ending in a truly stiff bout between Granby and a Comte de
Stainville, who covered the retreat, and who could not be beaten without
a great deal of trouble. The result a kind of victory to Ferdinand; but
nothing like what he expected. [Mauvillon, ii. 227-236; Tempelhof, vi.
&c. &c.]

Soubise leads the French this final Year; but he has a D'Estrees with
him (our old D'Estrees of HASTENBECK), who much helps the account
current; and though generally on the declining hand (obliged to give
up Gottingen, to edge away farther and farther out of Hessen itself, to
give up the Weser, and see no shift but the farther side of Fulda,
with Frankfurt to rear),--is not often caught napping as here at
Wilhelmsthal. There ensued about the banks of the Fulda, and the
question, Shall we be driven across it sooner or not so soon? a great
deal of fighting and pushing (Battle called of LUTTERNBERG, Battle of
JOHANNISBERG, and others): but all readers will look forward rather
to the CANNONADE OF AMONEBURG, more precisely Cannonade of the
BRUCKEN-MUHLE (September 2lst), which finishes these wearisome
death-wrestlings. Peace is coming; all the world can now count on that!

Bute is ravenous for Peace; has been privately taking the most
unheard-of steps:--wrote to Kaunitz, "Peace at once and we will vote for
your HAVING Silesia;" to which Kaunitz, suspecting trickery in artless
Bute, answered, haughtily sneering, "No help needed from your Lordship
in that matter!" After which repulse, or before it, Bute had applied to
the Czar's Minister in London: "Czarish Majesty to have East Preussen
guaranteed to him, if he will insist that the King of Prussia DISPENSE
with