At his very acme of Life, as well as of Generalship; which, alas, soon changed, poor man; never to culminate again.

He had got, at the beginning of the Year, the high Maria Theresa's one Sister, Archduchess Maria Anna, to Wife; [Age then twenty-five gone: "born 14th September, 1718; married to Prince Karl 7th January, 1744; died, of childbirth, 16th December same year" (Hormayr, _OEsterreichischer Plutarch,_ iv.

erstes Baudchen, 54).] the crown of long mutual attachment; she safe now at Brussels, diligent Co-Regent, and in a promising family-way; he here walking on victorious:--need any man be happier?
No man can be supremely happy long; and this General's strategic felicity and his domestic were fatally cut down almost together.

The Cause of Liberty, too, now at the top of its orbit, was--But let us stick by our Excerpting: "DUNKIRK, 19th JULY, 1744 [Princess Ulrique's Wedding, just two days ago].

King Louis, on hearing of the Job's-news from Elsass, instantly suspended his Conquests in Flanders; detached Noailles, detached this one and that, double-quick, Division after Division (leaving Saxe, with 45,000, to his own resources, and the fatuities of Marshal Wade); and, 19th July, himself hastens off from Dunkirk (leaving much of the luggage, but not the Chateauroux behind him), to save his Country, poor soul.