l preserve, so long as I breathe, its
feelings of esteem and of tender friendship for my good Mamma. Adieu."
[_OEuvres de Frederic,_ XVIII. 144.]--To which add only this on Duke
Ferdinand, "whose affairs," we just heard, "are not in a good way:"--

FIGHT OF KLOSTER KAMPEN (Night of October 15th-16th); WESEL NOT TO BE
HAD BY DUKE FERDINAND.

After WARBURG (July 31st, while Friedrich was on the eve of crossing
Elbe on new adventures, Dresden Siege having failed him), Duke Ferdinand
made no figure to the Gazetteers; fought no Battle farther; and has
had a Campaign, which is honorable only to judges of a higher than the
Gazetteer sort.

By Warburg Ferdinand had got the Diemel; on the north bank of which
he spread himself out, impassable to Broglio, who lay trying on the
opposite bank:--"No Hanover by this road." Broglio thereupon drew back
a little; pushed out circuitously from his right wing, which reaches far
eastward of Ferdinand, a considerable Brigade,--circuitously, round by
the Weser-Fulda Country, and beyond the embouchure of Diemel,--to try it
by that method. Got actually a few miles into Hanoverian territory, by
that method; laid hold of Gottingen, also of Munden, which secures a
road thither: and at Gottingen there, "ever since August 4th," Broglio
has been throwing up works, and shooting out hussar-parties to a good
distance; intending, it would seem, to maintain himself, and to be
mischievous, in that post. Would, in fact, fain entice Ferdinand across
the Weser, to help Gottingen. "Across Weser, yes;--and so leave Broglio
free to take Lippstadt from me, as he might after a short siege,"
thinks Ferdinand always; "which would beautifully shorten Broglio's
communication [quite direct then, and without interruption, all the way
to Wesel], and make Hanover itself, Hanover and Brunswick, the central
Seat of War!" Which Ferdinand, grieved as he is for Gottingen, will by
no means consent to.

Ferdinand, strong only as one to two, cannot hinder Broglio, though he
tries variously; and is much at a loss, seeing Broglio irrepressibly
busy this way, all through August and on into September;--has heard,
however, from Wesel, through secret partisans there, that Wesel,
considered altogether out of risk, is left in a very weak condition;
weak in garrison, weak even in gunners. Reflecting upon which, in his
difficulties, Ferdinand asks himself, "A sudden stroke at Wesel, 200
miles away, might it not astonish Broglio, w