'I reckon this,' Valori says, 'the root of all our woes;' this Letter which the great Belleisle wrote home to Court.

Let men mark it, therefore, as a cardinal point,--and snatch out the date, when they have opportunity upon the Archives of France.

[See Valori, i.

131.] "Monseigneur the Comte de Saxe, before quitting the Vienna Countries, had left some 10,000 French and Bavarians, posted chiefly in Linz, under a Comte de Segur, to maintain those Donau Conquests, which have cost only the trouble of marching into them.

Count Khevenhuller has ceased working at the ramparts of Vienna, nothing of siege to be apprehended now, civic terror joyfully vanishing again; and busies himself collecting an Army at Vienna, with intent of looking into those same French Segurs, before long.