mark, the 55,000 begin on the instant to assemble,--along the
Livonian Frontier or Lithuanian, looking direct into Preussen.
Diligently rendezvousing there; 55,000 of them, nay gradually
70,000; no stinginess in the Czarina to her Ally of England. A most
triumphant thing, thinks Hanbury: Could another of you have done
it? Signed, ready for ratifying, 30th September, 1755 (bad Braddock
news not hindering);--and before it is ratified (this also let
readers mark), the actual Troops getting on march.

Hanbury's masterpiece, surely; a glorious triumph in the
circumstances, and a difficult, thinks Hanbury. Had Hanbury seen
the inside of the cards, as readers have, he would not have thought
it so triumphant. For years past,--especially since that
"Fundamental maxim, May 14th-15th, 1753," which we heard of,--the
Czarina's longings had been fixed. And here now--scattering money
from both hands of it, and wooing us with diplomatic finessings--is
the Fulfilment come! "Opportunity" upon Preussen; behold it here.

The Russian Senate again holds deliberation; declares (on the heel
of this Hanbury Treaty), "in October, 1755," what we read above,
That its Anti-Prussian intentions are--truculent indeed. And it is
the common talk in Petersburg society, through Winter, what a dose
the ambitious King of Prussia has got brewed for him, [MEMOIRE
RAISONNE (in Gesammelte Nachrichten ), i. 429,
&c.] out of Russian indignation and resources, miraculously set
afloat by English guineas. A triumphant Hanbury, for the time
being,--though a tragical enough by and by!

THE TRIUMPHANT HANBURY TREATY BECOMES, ITSELF, NOTHING
OR LESS;--BUT PRODUCES A FRIEDRICH TREATY, FOLLOWED BY