Everywhere repulsed, he returned to Cassel about 1714, sad and discouraged; and the man to whom we owe that prodigy, the steam engine, that instrument of universal welfare and riches, disappeared without leaving any trace of his death.

The Prince of Hessy-Cassel in disguise.

The outset of his reign had been brilliant and prosperous; but his victory at Cassel over the Flemings brought more cry than wool.

It was the first care of Prussia to prevent the military union of her foes in North Germany with her foes in the south,which was effected in part by the diplomatic genius of Bismarck, and in part by occupying the capitals of Hanover, Saxony, and Hesse-Cassel with Prussian troops, in a very summary way.

The execution of this idea is said by Mr. Guyot to have been attempted by Father Cassel without much success.