NE, ROADS OF
CADIZ, October, 1741: BY WHAT ASTONISHING ARTIFICE THIS ITALIAN WAR DID,
AT LENGTH, GET BEGUN. OTHER SCENE, BAY OF NAPLES, 19th-20th August,
1742: KING OF TWO SICILIES (BABY CARLOS THAT WAS), HAVING BEEN ASSISTING
MAMMA, IS OBLIGED TO BECOME NEUTRAL IN THE ITALIAN WAR. THE SIEGE OF
PRAG CONTIMES. A GRAND SALLY THERE. MAILLEBOIS MARCHES, WITH AN "ARMY OF
REDEMPTION" OR "OF MATHURINS" (WITTILY SO CALLED), TO RELIEVE PRAG;
REACHES THE BOHEMIAN FRONTIER, JOINED BY THE COMTE DE SAXE; ABOVE 50,000
STRONG (August 9th-September 19th). PRINCE KARL AND THE GRAND-DUKE,
HEARING OF MAILLEBOIS, GO TO MEET HIM (September 14th); AND THE SIEGE OF
PRAG IS RAISED. THE MAILLEBOIS ARMY OF REDEMPTION CANNOT REDEEM AT
ALL;--HAS TO STAGGER SOUTHWARD AGAIN; AND BECOMES AN "ARMY OF BAVARIA,"
UNDER BROGLIO. VOLTAIRE HAS BEEN ON VISIT AT AACHEN, IN THE INTERIM,--HIS
THIRD VISIT TO KING FRIEDRICH. THREE LETTERS OF VOLTAIRE, DATED
BRUSSELS, 10th SEPT. 1742.

Chapter III.--CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR-TIME. RETREAT FROM PRAG; ARMY OF
THE ORIFLAMME, BOHEMIAN SECTION BOHEMIAN SECTION OF IT, MAKES EXIT. A
GLANCE AT VIENNA, AND THEN AT BERLIN. VOLTAIRE, AT PARIS, IS MADE
IMMORTAL BY A KISS. Chapter IV.--AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS
HEIGHT. BRITANNIC MAJESTY, WITH SWORD ACTUALLY DRAWN, HAS MARCHED
MEANWHILE TO THE FRANKFURT COUNTRIES, AS "PRAGMATIC ARMY;" READY FOR
BATTLE AND TREATY ALIKE. FRIEDRICH HAS OBJECTIONS TO THE PRAGMATIC ARMY;
BUT IN VAIN. OF FRIEDRICH'S MANY ENDEAVORS TO QUENCH THIS WAR, BY "UNION
OF INDEPENDENT GERMAN PRINCES," BY "MEDIATION OF THE REICH," AND
OTHERWISE; ALL IN VAIN.

Chapter V.--BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN; AND BECOMES
SUPREME JOVE OF GERMANY, IN A MANNER.

BATTLE OF DETTINGEN. BRITANNIC MAJESTY HOLDS HIS CONFERENCES OF HANAU.
HUNGARIAN MAJESTY ANSWERS, IN THE DIET, THAT FRENCH DECLARATION, "MAKE
PEACE, GOOD PEOPLE; I WISH TO BE OUT OF IT!"--IN AN OMINOUS MANNER.
BRITANNIC MAJESTY GOES HOME.

Chapter VI.--VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH FOR THE FOURTH TIME. FRIEDRICH
VISITS BAIREUTH: ON A PARTICULAR ERRAND;--VOLTAIRE ATTENDING, AND
PRIVATELY REPORTING.

Chapter VII.--FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS
READY.

Chapter VIII.--PERFECT PEACE AT BERLIN, WAR ALL ROUND. GLANCE AT THE
BELLIGERENT POWERS; BRITANNIC MAJESTY NARROWLY MISSES AN INVASION THAT
MIGHT HAVE BEEN DANGEROUS THE YOUNG DUKE OF WURTEMBERG GETS A
VALEDICTORY ADVICE; AND POLLNITZ A DITTO TESTIMONIAL (Febru