set it up to the window,
and conjured the Gracious Highness: "For the love of Heaven, my
ALLERGNADIGSTER, don't! Have no trade with those French! Remember your
illustrious Father, Kurfurst Max, in the Eugene-Marlborough time, what
a job he made of it, building actual architecture on THEIR big promises,
which proved mere acres of gilt balloon!" [Hormayr, _Anemonen_ (cited
above), ii. 152.] Words terribly prophetic; but they were without effect
on Karl Albert.

The rest of Belleisle's inflammatory circuitings and extensive
travellings, for he had many first and last in this matter, shall be
left to the fancy of the reader. May 18th, he made formal Treaty with
Karl Albert: Treaty of Nymphenburg, "Karl Albert to be Kaiser; Bavaria,
with Austria Proper added to it, a Kingdom; French armies, French
moneys, and other fine items." [Given in Adelung, ii. 359.] Treaty to
be kept dead secret; King Friedrich, for the present, would not accede.
[Given in Adelung, ii. 421.] June 25th, after some preliminary survey of
the place, Belleisle made his Entry into Frankfurt: magnificent in the
extreme. And still did not rest there; but had to rush about, back to
Versailles, to Dresden, hither, thither: it was not till the last day
of July that he fairly took up his abode in Frankfurt; and--the Election
eggs, so to speak, being now all laid--set himself to hatch the same.
A process which lasted him six months longer, with curious phenomena to
mankind. Not till the middle of August did he bring those 80,000 Armed
Frenchmen across the Rhine, "to secure peace in those parts, and freedom
of voting." Not till November 4th had Kur-Sachsen, with the Nightmares,
finished that important problem of the Bohemian Vote, "Bohemian Vote
EXCLUDED for this time;"--after which all was ready, though still not
in the least hurry. November 20th, came the first actual
"Election-Conference (WAHL-CONFERENZ)" in the Romer at Frankfurt; to
which succeeded Two Months more of conferrings (upon almost nothing at
all): and finally, 24th January, 1742, came the Election itself, Karl
Albert the man; poor wretch, who never saw another good day in this
world.

Belleisle during those six months was rather high and airy, extremely
magnificent; but did not want discretion: "more like a Kurfurst than an
Ambassador;" capable of "visiting Kur-Mainz, with servants purposely
in OLD liveries,"--where the case needed old, where Kur-Mainz needed
snubbing; not otherwise. [Buchholz, i