I am, Sir, your dutiful Son .-- G.

L." [_The Works of Lord George Lyttelton,_ by Ayscough (London, 1776), iii.

215.] These poor Lorrainers are in a bad way; their Country all trampled to pieces by France, in the Louis-Fourteenth and still earlier times.
Indeed, ever since the futile Siege of Metz; where we saw the great Kaiser, Karl V., silently weeping because he could not recapture Metz, [Antea, vol.v.p.

211.] the French have been busy with this poor Country;--new sections of it clipt away by them; "military roads through it, ten miles broad," bargained for; its Dukes oftenest in exile, especially the Father of this present Duke: [A famed Soldier in his day;] under Kaiser Leopold, "the little Kaiser in red stockings," one of whose Daughters he had to wife.

He was at the Rescue of Vienna (Sobieski's), and in how many far fiercer services; his life was but a battle and a march.