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Hussars, Croats, Pandours, Tolpatches, Warasdins, Uscocks, never heard of in war before: who were found very terrible to look upon once, in the imagination or with the naked eye; but whose fighting talent, against regular troops, was next to worthless; and who gradually became hateful rather than terrible in the military world. HANOVER, SEPTEMBER 27th.

Prince Karl, from Konigshof, soon fell back to Konigsgratz; and lay motionless there, nothing but his Tolpatcheries astir, Sohr Country all eaten, Friedrich, in the due Divisions, marched northward. Through Trautenau, Schatzlar, his own Division, which was the main one; and, fencing off the Tolpatches successfully with trouble, brings all his men into Silesia again.

His own scheme now was: To move towards the southwest, there to abolish Bathyani and his Tolpatches, who are busy gathering Magazines for Prince Karl's advent; to seize the said Magazines, which will be very useful to us; then advance straight towards the Passes of the Bohemian Mountains. It was Friedrich's own notion; not a bad one, though not the best.

"The whole 15,000 of them," report adds; though it proved to be only a Detachment, picked Tolpatches mostly, and of nothing like that strength; shot off, under a swift General Haddick, on this errand. Between them and Berlin is not a vestige of force; and Berlin itself has nothing but palisades, and perhaps a poor 4,000 of garrison.

Drilled militia, regulars, Hungarians, about 16,000, only that many of the Tolpatches contrived to whisk loose, are marched prisoners to Glatz and other strong places. Prag City, with plenty of provision in it, is ours. A brilliant beginning of a Campaign; the eyes of all Europe turned again, in very various humor, on this young King.

Tolpatches fire on the walking straw sentry; straw sentry falls flat; Tolpatches rush in, esurient, triumphant; are exploded in a sharp blast of musketry from the bushes all round, every wounded man made prisoner; and come no more back to that post."

No enemy here, perhaps some Festititz, with his canaille of Tolpatches, still lingering about, no enemy worth mention. Parties go out freely to investigate: but as to forage? Alas, a Country burnt, Villages black and silent for ten miles round; you pick up here and there a lean steer, welcome amid boiled horse-flesh; you bundle a load or two of neglected grass together, for what cavalry remains.

An Army absolutely shut out from news, from letters, messages to or fro, and groping its way in darkness, owing to these circumambient thunder-clouds of Tolpatches, is not a well-situated Army! And alas, when at last the Letter-bag did get through, and But let us not anticipate! At Tabor there arose two opinions; which, in spite of the King's presence, was a new difficulty.

And there was skirmishing with Mentzel, a sanguinary fellow, of whom we shall hear more; who had got "1,000 Tolpatches" under him, and stood ruggedly at bay. Karl Albert has been sending out sovereign messages from Linz: Letters to Vienna; one letter addressed "To the Arch-duchess Maria Theresa;" which came back unopened, "No such person known here."

So it is done: straw man is made; set upon his ropes, when the Tolpatches approach; and pensively saunters to and fro, his living comrades crouching in the bushes near by.