s, hitchings and manoeuvrings will now
demand to be suppressed by us! Read these essential Fractions, chiefly
chronological;--and then, at once, To Bunzelwitz, and the time of close
grips in Silesia here.

"Last Year," says a loose Note, which we may as well take with us,
"Tottleben did not go home with the rest, but kept hovering about, in
eastern Pommern, with a 10,000, all Winter; attempting several kinds of
mischief in those Countries, especially attempting to do something
on Colberg; which the Russians mean to besiege next Summer, with more
intensity than ever, for the Third, and, if possible, the last time.
'Storm their outposts there,' thinks Tottleben, 'especially Belgard,
the chief outpost; girdle tighter and tighter the obstinate little
crow's-nest of a Colberg, and have it ready for besieging in good time.'
Tottleben did try upon the outposts, especially Belgard the chief one
(January 18th, 1761), but without the least success at Belgard; with a
severe reproof instead, Werner's people being broad awake: [Account of
itt, _Helden-Geschichte,_ vi. 670.] upon which Tottleben and they made a
truce, 'Peaceable till May 12th;' till June 1st, it proved, about which
time [which time, or afterwards, as the Silesian crisis may admit!] we
will look in on them again."

MAY 3d, as above intimated, Friedrich hastened off for Silesia, quitted
Meissen that day, with an Army of some 50,000; pressingly intent to
relieve Goltz from his dangerous predicament there. This is one of
Friedrich's famed marches, done in a minimum of time and with a maximum
of ingenuity; concerning which I will remember only that, one night, "he
lodged again at Rodewitz, near Hochklrch, in the same house as on
that Occasion [what a thirty months to look back upon, as you sink to
sleep!]--and that no accident anywhere befell the March, though Daun's
people, all through Saxony and the Lausitz, were hovering on the
flank,--apprehensive chiefly lest it might mean a plunge INTO BOHEMIA,
for relief of Goltz, instead of what it did." For six weeks after that
hard March, the King's people got Cantonments again, and rested.

Prince Henri is left in Saxony, with Daun in huge force against him,
Daun and the Reich; between whom and Henri,--Seidlitz being in the field
again with Henri, Seidlitz and others of mark,--there fell out a great
deal of exquisite manoeuvring, rapid detaching and occasional sharp
cutting on the small scale; but nothing of moment to detain