ist is home from his Bohemian inroad: "In
upon the Reich, with 6,000, in your old style! That will dispose the
Reichs Principalities to Peace."

Kleist marched November 3d; kept the Reich in paroxysm till December
13th;--Plotho, meanwhile, proclaiming in the Reichs Diet: "Such Reichs
Princes as wish for Peace with my King can have it; those that prefer
War, they too can have it!" Kleist, dividing himself in the due artistic
way, flew over the Voigtland, on to Bamberg, on to Nurnberg itself
(which he took, by sounding rams'-horns, as it were, having no gun
heavier than a carbine, and held for a week); [_Helden-Geschichte,_
vii. 186-194.]--fluttering the Reichs Diet not a little, and disposing
everybody for Peace. The Austrians saw it with pleasure, "We solemnly
engaged to save these poor people harmless, on their joining us;--and,
behold, it has become thrice and four times impossible. Let them fall
off into Peace, like ripe pears, of themselves; we can then turn round
and say, 'Save you harmless? Yes; if you had n't fallen off!'"

NOVEMBER 24th, all Austrians make truce with Friedrich, Truce till March
1st;--all Austrians, and what is singular, with no mention of the Reich
whatever. The Reich is defenceless, at the feet of Kleist and his 6,000.
Stollberg is still in Prussian neighborhood; and may be picked up any
day! Stollberg hastens off to defend the Reich; finds the Reich quite
empty of enemies before his arrival;--and at least saves his own skin. A
month or two more, and Stollberg will lay down his Command, and the last
Reichs-Execution Army, playing Farce-Tragedy so long, make its exit from
the Theatre of this World.

Chapter XIII.--PEACE OF HUBERTSBURG.

The Prussian troops took Winter-quarters in the Meissen-Freyberg region,
the old Saxon ground, familiar to them for the last three years: room
enough this Winter, "from Plauen and Zwickau, round by Langensalza
again;" Truce with everybody, and nothing of disturbance till March 1st
at soonest. The usual recruiting went on, or was preparing to go on,--a
part of which took immediate effect, as we shall see. Recruiting,
refitting, "Be ready for a new Campaign, in any case: the readier we
are, the less our chance of having one!" Friedrich's head-quarter is
Leipzig; but till December 5th he does not get thither. "More business
on me than ever!" complains he. At Leipzig he had his Nephews, his
D'Argens; for a week or two his Brother Henri; finally, his Berlin