"My congratulations on the excellent success you have had [out in Frankenland yonder]! Your prisoners, we hear, are 3,000; the desertion and confusion in the Reichs Army are affirmed to be enormous:--I give those Reichs fellows two good months [scarcely took so long] to be in a condition to show face again.

As for ourselves, I can send you nothing but contemptibilities.

We have never yet had the beatific vision of Him with the Hat and Consecrated Sword [Papal Daun, that is]; they amuse us with the Sieur Loudon instead;--who, three days ago [7th July, two days] did us the honor of a visit, at the Gallows of Liebau.

He was conducted out again, with all the politeness imaginable, on to near Schatzlar," well over the Bohemian Border; "where we flung a score of cannon volleys into the"-- into the "DERRIERE of him, and everybody returned home." [In SCHONING, ii.

65: "9th June, 1759."] Perhaps the only points now noticeable in this tedious Landshut interim, are Two, hardly noticed then at all by an expectant world.