ght of
October 18th-19th, crossed to his own side; gathered up his goods; and
at a deliberate pace marched home, on those terms;--doing some useful
fighting by the road." [Mauvillon, ii. 120-129: Tempelhof, ii. 325-332.]

Had lost nothing, say his admirers, "but one cannon, which burst." One
burst cannon left on the field of Kloster Kampen;--but also, as we see,
his errand along with it; and 1,600 good fighters lost and burst: which
was more important! Criticisms there were on it in England, perhaps
of the unwise sort generally; sorrow in the highest quarter. "An
unaccountable expedition," Walpole calls it, "on which Prince Ferdinand
suddenly despatched his Nephew, at the head of a considerable
force, towards the frontiers of Holland,"--merely to see the country
there?--"which occasioned much solicitude in England, as the Main Army,
already unequal to that of France, was thus rendered much weaker. King
George felt it with much anxiety." [Walpole's _George Second,_ iii.
299.] An unaccountable Enterprise, my poor Gazetteer friends,--very
evidently an unsuccessful one, so far as Wesel went. Many English
fallen in it, too: "the English showed here again a GANZ AUSNEHMENDE
TAPFERKEIT," says Mauvillon; and probably their share of the loss was
proportionate.

Clearly enough there is no Wesel to be had. Neither could Broglio,
though disturbed in his Gottingen fortifyings and operations, be ejected
out of Gottingen. Ferdinand, on failure of Wesel, himself marched to
Gottingen, and tried for some days; but found he could not, in such
weather, tear out that firmly rooted French Post, but must be content to
"mask it," for the present; and, this done, withdrew (December 13th)
to his winter-quarters near by, as did Broglio to his,--about the time
Friedrich and Daun had finally settled in theirs.

Ferdinand's Campaigns henceforth, which turn all on the defence of
Hanover, are highly recommended to professional readers; but to the laic
sort do not prove interesting in proportion to the trouble. In fact, the
huge War henceforth begins everywhere, or everywhere except in Pitt's
department of it, to burn lower, like a lamp with the oil getting done;
and has less of brilliancy than formerly. "Let us try for Hanover,"
the Belleisles, Choiseuls and wise French heads had said to themselves:
"Canada, India, everything is lost; but were dear Hanover well in
our clutch, Hanover would be a remedy for many things!" Through the
remaining Campaig