[_A Compleat History of Germany,_ by Mr.Savage (8vo, London, 1702), p.553.Who this Mr.
Savage was, we have no trace.

Prefixed to the volume is the Portrait of a solid Gentleman of forty: gloomily polite, with ample wig and cravat,--in all likelihood some studious subaltern Diplomatist in the Succession War.

His little Book is very lean and barren: but faithfully compiled,--and might have some illumination in it, where utter darkness is so prevalent.

Most likely, Addison picked his story of the _Siege of Weinsberg_ ("Women carrying out their Husbands on their back,"-- one of his best SPECTATORS) out of this poor Book.] His 24,000 excellent fighting-men, thrown in at the right time, were often a thing that could turn the balance in great questions.

They required to be allowed for at a high rate,--which he well knew how to adjust himself for exacting and securing always.
WHAT BECAME OF POMMERN AT THE PEACE; FINAL GLANCE INTO CLEVE-JULICH.
When the Peace of Westphalia (1648) concluded that Thirty-Years Conflagration, and swept the ashes of it into order again, Friedrich Wilhelm's right to Pommern was admitted by everybody: and well insisted on by himself: but right had to yield to reason of state, and he could not get it.