"Some time before the actual Bombardment, Fleury, seeing it inevitable, had ordered Belleisle to treat.

Belleisle accordingly had an interview, almost two interviews, with Konigseck.

[_Guerre de Boheme_, ii.

156 ("2d July" the actual interview); ib.

161 (the corollary to it, confirmatory of it, which passed by letters).] 'Liberty to march home, and equitable Peace-Negotiations in the rear ?' proposed Belleisle.
'Absolute surrender; Prisoners of War!' answered Konigseck; 'such is her Hungarian Majesty's positive order and ultimatum.' The high Belleisle responded nothing unpolite; merely some, 'ALORS, MONSIEUR--!' And rode back to Prag, with a spirit all in white heat;--gradually heating all the 24,000 white, and keeping them so.
"In fact, Belleisle, a high-flown lion reduced to silence and now standing at bay, much distinguishes himself in this Siege; which, for his sake, is still worth a moment's memory from mankind.