es seen somewhat, in this
fermentation of the elements, are copiously set down for us by the
English Dryasdust (mostly in unintelligible form): but, except for sane
purposes, one must be careful not to dwell on them, to the sorrow of
readers. Seldom was there such a feat of Somnambulism, as that by the
English and their King in the next twenty Years. To extract the particle
of sanity from it, and see how the poor English did get their own errand
done withal, and Jenkins's Ear avenged,--that is the one interesting
point; Dryasdust and the Nightmares shall, to all time, be welcome to
the others. Here are some Excerpts, a select few; which will perhaps
be our readiest expedient. These do, under certain main aspects,
shadow forth the intricate posture of King George and his Nation, when
Belleisle, as Protagonistes or Chief Bully, stept down into the ring,
in that manner; asking, "Is there an Antagonistes, then, or Chief
Defender?" I will label them, number them; and, with the minimum of
needful commentary, leave them to imaginative readers.

No. 1. SNATCH OF PARLIAMENTARY ELOQUENCE BY MR. VINER (19th April,
1741).

The fuliginous explosions, more or less volcanic, which went on
in Parliament and in English society, against Friedrich's Silesian
Enterprise, for long years from this date, are now all dead and
avoidable,--though they have left their effects among us to this day.
Perhaps readers would like to see the one reasonable word I have fallen
in with, of opposite tendency; Mr. Viner's word, at the first starting
of that question: plainly sensible word, which, had it been attended to
(as it was not), might have saved us so much nonsense, not of idle talk
only, but of extremely serious deed which ensued thereupon!

"LONDON, 19th APRIL, 1741. This day [Mollwitz not yet known, Camp of
Gottin too well known!] King George, in his own high person, comes down
to the House of Lords,--which, like the Other House, is sunk painfully
in Walpole Controversies, Spanish-War Controversies, of a merely
domestic nature;--and informs both Honorable Houses, with extreme
caution, naming nobody, That he much wishes they would think of helping
him in these alarming circumstances of the Celestial Balance, ready
apparently to go heels uppermost. To which the general answer is, 'Yes,
surely!'--with a vote of 300,000 pounds for her Hungarian Majesty, a few
days hence. From those continents of Parliamentary tufa, now fallen
so waste and mou