His thoughts on these matters are not given; but sure enough they were continual, too intense they could hardly be.

"Compensation;" "The Reich as good as mine:" Whither is all this tending?
Walrave and those Silesian Fortifyings,--let Walrave mind his work, and get it perfected! BRITANNIC MAJESTY GOES HOME.
The "Combined Invasion of Elsass"-- let us say briefly, overstepping the order of date, and still for a moment leaving Friedrich--came to nothing, this year.

Prince Karl was 70,000; Britannic George (when once those Dutch, crawling on all summer, had actually come up) was 66,000,--nay 70,000; Karl having lent him that beautiful cannibal gentleman, "Colonel Mentzel and 4,000 Tolpatches," by way of edge-trimming.

Karl was to cross in Upper Elsass, in the Strasburg parts; Karl once across, Britannic Majesty was to cross about Mainz, and co-operate from Lower Elsass.

And they should have been swift about it; and were not! All the world expected a severe slash to France; and France itself had the due apprehension of it: but France and all the world were mistaken, this time.
Prince Karl was slow with his preparations; Noailles and Coigny (Broglio's successor) were not slow; "raising batteries everywhere," raising lines, "10,000 Elsass Peasants," and what not;--so that, by the time Prince Karl was ready (middle of August), they lay intrenched and minatory at all passable points; and Karl could nowhere, in that Upper-Rhine Country, by any method, get across.