] Bombardment by every method, from sea and from land, continues
diligent for the next fortnight,--with little or no result; so diligent
are Eugen and veteran Heyde.

"SEPTEMBER 4th. The Swedish-Russian gunboats have been much shot down
by Heyde's batteries on the beach; no success had, owing to Heyde and
Eugen: paltry little Colberg as impossible as Bunzelwitz, it seems?
'Double our diligence, therefore!' That is Romanzow's and everybody's
sentiment here. Romanzow comes closer in, September 4th; besieges in
form, since not Colberg, Eugen's CAMP, or brazen wall of Colberg; and
there rises in and round this poor little Colberg (a 2,000 balls daily,
red-hot and other) such a volcano as attracts the eyes of all the world
thither.

"SEPTEMBER 12th. News yesterday of reinforcement, men and provender,
coming from Stettin; is to be at Treptow on the 13th. Werner, night of
the 11th, stealthily sets out to meet it, IT in the first place; then,
joined with it, to take by rearward a certain inconvenient battery,
which Romanzow is building to westward of us, out that way; to demolish
said battery, and be generally distressful to the rear of Romanzow. At
Treptow, after his difficult night's march, Werner is resting, secure
now of the adventure;--too contemptuous of his slow Russians, as
appeared! Who, for once, surprise HIM; and, at and round Treptow, next
morning, Werner finds himself suddenly in a most awkward predicament.
Werner, one of the rapidest and stormiest of skilful men, plunged
valiantly into the affair; would still have managed it, they say, had
not, in some sudden swoop,--charge, or something of critical or vital
nature,--rapid Werner's horse got shot, and fallen with him; whereby not
only the charge failed, but Werner himself was taken prisoner. A loss of
very great importance, and grievous to everybody: though, I believe,
the reinforcement and supply, for this time, got mostly through, and
the dangerous battery was got demolished by other means. [Seyfarth,
_Beylagen,_ iii. 238; Tempelhof, v. 314.] This is Romanzow's first item
of success, this of getting such a Werner snatched out of the game [and
sent to Petersburg instead as we shall hear]; and other items fell to
Romanzow thenceforth by the aid of time and hunger.

"In the way of storming, battering or otherwise capturing Eugen's Camp,
not to speak of Heyde's town, Romanzow finds, on trial after trial, that
he can do as good as nothing; and his unwieldy sea-comr