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Through Wurzburg, Frankfurt-on-Mayn, speeds Friedrich; Wilhelmina and mankind understand that it is homewards and to Cleve; but at Frankfurt, in deepest privacy, there occurs a sudden whirl southward, up the Rhine-Valley; direct towards Strasburg, for a sight of France in that quarter!
Contades, across Rhine again, in those Weser Countries, who is skilful in his way, and is pricked on by emulation of Broglio, has been spreading himself out steadily progressive there; while Broglio, pushing along from Frankfurt-on-Mayn, has conquered Hessen; is into Hanover; on the edge of conquering Hanover, which how is Ferdinand to hinder?
JANUARY 2d, 1759: FRANKFURT-ON-MAYN, THOUGH IT IS A REICHSTADT, FINDS ITSELF SUDDENLY BECOME FRENCH. "Prince de Soubise lies between Mayn and Lahn, with his 25,000; beautifully safe and convenient, though ill off for a place-of-arms in those parts. Opulent Frankfurt, on his right; how handy would that be, were not Reichs Law so express!
Strange gray old silent Town, rich in so many memories; it stands there, straggling up its rocky hill-edge, towards its old Castles and edifices on the top, in a not unpicturesque manner; flanked by the river Lahn and its fertile plains: very silent, except for the delirious screech, at rare intervals, of a railway train passing that way from Frankfurt-on-Mayn to Cassel. "Church of St.
"I have just finished a Journey, intermingled with singular adventures, sometimes pleasant, sometimes the reverse. "to see a Sister whom I love no less than esteem. Frankfurt-on-Mayn comes always as a principal stage; Strasburg was no great roundabout: we chose that route in preference. But Heaven, which disposes of all things, Differently regulated this thing.
Land part, we say, was always mainly in Germany, under Ferdinand, in Hessen and the Westphalian Countries, as far west as Minden, as far east as Frankfurt-on-Mayn, generally well north of Rhine, well south of Elbe: that was, for five years coming, the cockpit or place of deadly fence between France and England.
This is the Treaty of Union, Secret-Article and all; done at Frankfurt-on-Mayn, 22d May, 1744. "A hypothetical thing, that," says Friedrich carelessly; "wages moderate enough, and proper to be settled beforehand, though the work was never done."
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