ly Fathers hereabouts, and others, to have
a care lest you get into'--And twitching his reins, rode away without
saying into what." [_Helden-Geschichte,_ i. 723.]

AUSTRIA IS STANDING TO ARMS.

Schwerin has been doing his best in this interim; collecting magazines
with double diligence while the roads are hard, taking up the
Key-positions far and wide, from the Jablunka round to the Frontier
Valleys of Glatz again. He was through Jablunka, at one time; on into
Mahren, as far as Olmutz; levying contributions, emitting patents: but
as to intimidating her Hungarian Majesty, if that was the intention, or
changing her mind at all, that is not the issue got. Austria has still
strength, and Pragmatic Sanction and the Laws of Nature have! Very
fixed is her Hungarian Majesty's determination, to part with no inch of
Territory, but to drive the intrusive Prussians home well punished.

How she has got the funds is, to this day, a mystery;--unless George and
Walpole, from their Secret-Service Moneys, have smuggled her somewhat?
For the Parliament is not sitting, and there will be such jargonings,
such delays: a preliminary 100,000 pounds, say by degrees 200,000
pounds,--we should not miss it, and in her Majesty's hands it would go
far! Hints in the English Dryasdust we have; but nothing definite; and
we are left to our guesses. [Tindal (XX. 497) says expressly 200,000
pounds, but gives no date or other particular.] A romantic story, first
set current by Voltaire, has gone the round of the world, and still
appears in all Histories: How in England there was a Subscription set
on foot for her Hungarian Majesty; outcome of the enthusiasm of English
Ladies of quality,--old Sarah Duchess of Marlborough putting down her
name for 40,000 pounds, or indeed putting down the ready sum itself;
magnanimous veteran that she was. Voltaire says, omitting date and
circumstance, but speaking as if it were indubitable, and a thing you
could see with eyes: "The Duchess of Marlborough, widow of him who had
fought for Karl VI. [and with such signal returns of gratitude from the
said Karl VI.], assembled the principal Ladies of London; who engaged to
furnish 100,000 pounds among them; the Duchess herself putting down [EN
DEPOSA, tabling IN CORPORE] 40,000 pounds of it. The Queen of Hungary
had the greatness of soul to refuse this money;--needing only, as she
intimated, what the Nation in Parliament assembled might please to offer
her." [Voltaire, _