465; total of Austrian Force seems to be 7,800 horse and foot.] Fain would he get possession of Breslau, and throw in some garrison there; but cannot.

Neither he nor Wallis could compass that.

Breslau is a City divided against itself, on this matter; full of emotions, of expectations, apprehensions for and against.

There is a Supreme Silesian Government (OBER-AMT "Head-Office," kind of Austrian Vice-Royalty) in Breslau; and there is, on Breslau's own score, a Town-Rath; strictly Catholic both these, Vienna the breath of their nostrils.

But then also there are forty-four Incorporated Trades; Oppressed Protestant in Majority; to whom Vienna is not breath, but rather the want of it.
Lastly, the City calls itself Free; and has crabbed privileges still valid; a "JUS PROESIDII" (or right to be one's own garrison) one of them, and the most inconvenient just now.