The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.

At length appears the lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself.

'Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another's hand....

The Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg's acquaintance.