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On Mayday, Marechal Berwick, who has been awake in this quarter, "in three divisions," for a month past, very impatient till Belleisle with the first division should have taken Trarbach, and made the Western interior parts secure, did actually cross the Rhine, with his second division, "at Fort Louis," well up the River, well south of Philipsburg; intending to attack the Lines of Ettlingen, and so get in upon the Town.
At Budweis, or between that and Tabor, Towns of our old friend Zisca's, of which we shall hear farther in these Wars; Towns important by their intricate environment of rock and bog, far up among the springs of the Moldau, there can these Bavarians, and this French Vanward of Belleisle, halt a little, till the other parties, who are likewise on march, get within distance."
Marechal de Belleisle, wrapt in Diplomatic and Electioneering business, cannot personally take command for the present; but has excellent lieutenants, one of whom is Comte de Saxe, Moritz our old friend, afterwards Marechal de Saxe.
And, of course, the Hanoverian much more; through which lies the other Great Road! 'Go by the Harz, advises Landgraf Wilhelm: 'a rugged Hill Country; but it is your hypotenuse towards Berlin; passes at once, or nearly so, from Cassel Territory into Prussian: a rugged road, but a shorter and safer. That is the road Belleisle resolves upon.
By this time, however, Mollwitz having fallen out, and Belleisle being evidently on the steps, his Britannic Majesty recognizes clearly, and insists upon it, strengthened by his Harringtons and everybody of discernment, That, nefarious or not, this Friedrich will require to be bargained with.
Johns and places adjacent do for ourselves and our different Tribes confirm and ratify the same to all intents and purposes. "Given under our hands at the River St. Johns this fourth day of September, 1749." At first glance it would seem that the interpreter, Madame Belleisle, must have been Anastasie St.
Postponing, procrastinating; then again pushing violently on, when things are ripe: Belleisle has only to give signal to a fit Kur-Pfalz. In all Kurfurst Courts, the French Ambassadors sing diligently to the tune Belleisle sets them; and Courts give ear, or will do, when the charmer himself arrives.
In Italy, the French arms did not triumph with equal success, though the mareschal de Belleisle saw himself at the head of a powerful army in Provence. In April he passed the Var without opposition, and took possession of Nice.
'Indeed, he says to the same correspondent, 'one is forced to ask every morning what victory there is, for fear of missing one. And he wrote with reason. India, Canada, Belleisle, the Mississippi, the Philippines, the Havanna, Martinique, Guadaloupe there was no end to our conquests.
He proceeded next to Dresden, which is a main card: and where there is immense manipulation needed, and the most delicate trout-tickling; this being a skittish fish, and an important, though a foolish. Belleisle was at Dresden when the Battle of Mollwitz fell out: what a windfall into Belleisle's game! He ran across to Friedrich at Mollwitz, to congratulate, to consult, as we shall see anon.
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