ns, and cautiously guards them; can, when he pleases,
wend back to Waldenburg Country; and at once, with his superior numbers,
block all passages, and sit there impregnable. The methods of dislodging
him are obscure to Friedrich himself; but methods there must be,
dislodged he must be, and sent packing. Without that, all siege of
Schweidnitz is flatly impossible.

June 27th, Friedrich's Head-quarter is Tintz, Czernichef now nigh:
[Tempelhof, vi. 76.] two days ago (June 25th), Czernichef's Cossacks
"crossed the Oder at Auras,"--with how different objects from those they
used to have! JULY 1st, Czernichef himself is here, in full tale and
equipment. Had encamped, a day ago, on the Field of Lissa; where
Majesty reviewed him, inspected and manoeuvred him, with great mutual
satisfaction. "Field of Lissa;" it is where our poor Prussian people
encamped on the night of Leuthen, with their "NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT,"
five years ago, in memorable circumstances: to what various uses are
Earth's Fields liable!

Friedrich, by degrees, has considerably changed his opinion, and bent
towards the late Keith's, about Russian Soldiery: a Soldiery of most
various kinds; from predatory Cossacks and Calmucks to those noble
Grenadiers, whom we saw sit down on the Walls of Schweidnitz when their
work was done. A perfectly steady obedience is in these men; at any and
all times obedient, to the death if needful, and with a silence, with
a steadfastness as of rocks and gravitation. Which is a superlative
quality in soldiers. Good in Nations too, within limits; and much a
distinction in the Russian Nation: rare, or almost unique, in these
unruly Times. The Russians have privately had their admirations
of Friedrich, all this while; and called him by I forget what
unpronounceable vernacular epithet, signifying "Son of Lightning,"
or some such thing. [Buchholz, _Neueste Preussisch-Brandenburgische
Geschichte_ (1775), vol ii. (page irrecoverable).] No doubt they are
proud to have a stroke of service under such a one, since Father Peter
Feodorowitsh graciously orders it: the very Cossacks show an alertness,
a vivacity; and see cheery possibilities ahead, in Countries not yet
plundered out. They stayed with Friedrich only Three Weeks,--Russia
being an uncertain Country. As we have seen above; though Friedrich, who
is vitally concerned, has not yet seen! But their junction with him, and
review by him in the Field of Lissa, had its uses by and by; and may be