By way of codicil, Austria agrees not to chicane him in regard to Anspach-Baireuth,--how generous of Austria, after this experience!-- In reality, the War was an Imaginary War; deserving on its own score little record anywhere; to readers here requiring almost less than it has got.

Schmettau, Schoning and others have been abundantly minute upon it; but even to soldiers there is little either of interest or instruction; to us, all it yields is certain Anecdotes of Friedrich's temper and ways in that difficult predicament; which, as coming at first-hand, gathered for us by punctual authentic Schmettau, who was constantly about him, with eyes open and note-book ready, have a kind of worth in the Biographic point of view.
The Prussian Soldiery, of whom we see a type in Schmettau, were disgusted with this War, and called it, in allusion to the foraging, A scramble for potatoes, "DER KARTOFFEL-KRIEG, The Potato War;" which is its common designation to this day.

The Austrians, in a like humor, called it "ZWETSCHKEN-RUMMEL" (say "THREE-BUTTON Loo"); a game not worth playing; especially not at such cost.

Combined cost counted to have been in sum-total 4,350,000 pounds and 20,000 men.

[Preuss, iv.