234 n.]--Leopold is now on the edge of seventy; ready to think all is finished with him.

Perhaps not quite, my tough old friend; recover yourself a little, and we shall see! Old Leopold is hardly home at Dessau, when new Pandour Tempests, tides of ravaging War, again come beating against the Giant Mountains, pouring through all passes; from utmost Jablunka, westward by Jagerndorf to Glatz, huge influx of wild riding hordes, each with some support of Austrian grenadiers, cannoniers; threatening to submerge Silesia.
Precursors, Friedrich need not doubt, of a strenuous regular attempt that way, Hungarian Majesty's fixed intention, hope and determination is, To expel him straightway from Silesia.

Her Patent circulates, these three months; calling on all men to take note of that fixed fact, especially on all Silesian men to note it well, and shift their allegiance accordingly.

Silesian men, in great majority,--our friend the Mayor of Landshut, for example ?--are believed to have no inclination towards change: and whoever has, had clearly better not show any till he see! [In Ranke (iii.

234), there is vestige of some intended "voluntary subscription by the common people of Glatz," for Friedrich's behoof;--contrariwise, in Orlich (ii.