141, 159.] Schweidnitz is liable to siege; Breslau, with its poor walls and multitudinous population, can stand no siege worth mentioning; the Silesian strong places, not to speak of meal-magazines, are like to go a bad road.

Quite dominant, this Prince Karl; placarding and proclaiming in all places, according to the new "Imperial Patent," [In _ Helden-Geschichte,_ (iv.

832, 833), Copy of it: "Absolved from all prior Treaties by Prussian Majesty's attack on us, We" &c.

&c.

("21st Sept.
1757").] That Silesia is her Imperial Majesty's again! Which seems to be fast becoming the fact;--unless contradicted better.