ace of fire and sword upon these poor Reichspeople, found the
Reichspeople wholly vanished in the mist. Gone bodily; in full march for
the spurs of the Metal-Mountain Range again;--concluding, for the fourth
time, an extremely contemptible Campaign. Daun, with the King ahead
of him, made not the least attempt to help them in their Leipzig
difficulty; but retired to his strong Camp at Torgau; feels his work to
lie THERE,--as Friedrich perceives of him, with some interest.

Hulsen left a little garrison in Leipzig (friend Quintus a part of it);
[Tempelhof, iv. 290.] and returned to the King; whose small Magazine
at Duben, and other small affairs there,--Magdeburg with boats, and
the King with wagons, having been so diligent in carrying grain
thither,--are now about completed. From Daun's returning to Torgau,
Friedrich infers that the cautious man has got Order from Court to
maintain Torgau at all costs,--to risk a battle rather than go. "Good:
he shall have one!" thinks Friedrich. And, NOVEMBER 2d, in four columns,
marches towards Torgau; to Schilda, that night, which is some seven
miles on the southward side of Torgau. The King, himself in the vanguard
as usual, has watched with eager questioning eye the courses of Daun's
advanced parties, and by what routes they retreat; discerns for certain
that Daun has no views upon Duben or our little Magazine; and that the
tug of wrestle for Torgau, which is to crown this Campaign into conquest
of Saxony, or shatter it into zero like its foregoers on the Austrian
part, and will be of death-or-life nature on the Prussian part, ought to
ensue to-morrow. Forward, then!

This Camp of Torgau is not a new place to Daun. It was Prince Henri's
Camp last Autumn; where Daun tried all his efforts to no purpose; and
though hugely outnumbering the Prince, could make absolutely nothing of
it. Nothing, or less; and was flowing back to Dresden and the Bohemian
Frontier, uncheered by anything, till that comfortable Maxen Incident
turned up. Daun well knows the strength of this position. Torgau and the
Block of Hill to West, called Hill of Siptitz:--Hulsen, too, stood here
this Summer; not to mention Finck and Wunsch, and their beating the
Reichspeople here. A Hill and Post of great strength; not unfamiliar to
many Prussians, nor to Friedrich's studious considerations, though his
knowledge of it was not personal on all points;--as To-morrow taught
him, somewhat to his cost.

"Tourists, from Weimar