to have hopes on Passau notwithstanding."--And of Belleisle in
Prag, and his meditations on the Oriflamme?--Patience, reader.

Meantime, what a relief to Kaiser Karl, in such wreck of Bohemian
Kingdoms and Castles in Spain, to have got his own Munchen and
Country in hand again; with the prospect of quitting furnished-
lodgings, and seeing the color of real money! April next, he
actually goes to Munchen, where we catch a glimpse of him.
["17th April, 1743," Montijos &c. accompanying (Adelung, iii. B,
119, 120).] This same October, the Reich, after endless debatings
on the question, "Help our Kaiser, or not help?" [Ib. iii A, 289.]
has voted him fifty ROMER-MONATE ("Romish-months," still so termed,
though there is NOT now any marching of the Kaiser to Rome on
business); meaning fifty of the known QUOTAS, due from all and
sundry in such case,--which would amount to about 300,000 pounds
(could it, or the half of it, be collected from so wide a Parish),
and would prove a sensible relief to the poor man.


VOLTAIRE HAS BEEN ON VISIT AT AACHEN, IN THE INTERIM,--
HIS THIRD VISIT TO KING FRIEDRICH.

King Priedrich had come to the Baths of Aachen, August 25th;
the Maillebois Army of Redemption being then, to the last man of
it, five days across the Rhine on its high errand, which has since
proved futile. Friedrich left Aachen, taking leave of his Voltaire,
who had been lodging with him for a week by special invitation,
September 9th; and witnessed the later struggles and final
inability of Maillebois to redeem, not at Aix, but at Berlin, amid
the ordinary course of his employments there. We promised something