tly sets to trenching,
building batteries in that part; will have forty formidable guns,
howitzers a good few of them, ready before sunrise. And so,

WEDNESDAY, 21st JULY, 1762, All Prussians are in motion, far and
wide; especially Mollendorf and Wied (VERSUS O'Kelly and Prince de
Ligne),--which Pair of Prussians may be defined rather as near and
close; these Two being, in fact, the soul of the matter, and all else
garniture and semblance. About 4 in the morning, Friedrich's Battery
of 40 has begun raging; the howitzers diligent upon O'Kelly and his
Burkersdorf Height,--not much hurting O'Kelly or his Height, so high was
it, but making a prodigious noise upon O'Kelly;--others of the cannon
shearing home on those palisades and elaborations, in the Weistritz
Valley in particular, and quite tearing up a Cavalry Regiment which was
drawn out there; so that O'Kelly had instantly to call it home, in a
very wrecked condition. Why O'Kelly ever put it there--except that
he saw no place for it in his rugged localities, or no use for it
anywhere--is still a mystery to the intelligent mind. [Tempelhof,
vi. 107.] The howitzers, their shells bursting mostly in the air, did
O'Kelly little hurt, nor for hours yet was there any real attack
on Burkersdorf or him; but the noise, the horrid death-blaze was
prodigious, and kept O'Kelly, like some others, in an agitated, occupied
condition till their own turn came.

For it had been ordered that Wied and Mollendorf were not to attack
together: not together, but successively,--for the following reasons.
TOGETHER; suppose Mollendorf to prosper on O'Kelly (whom he is to storm,
not by the steep front part as O'Kelly fancies, but to go round by
the western flank and take him in rear); suppose Mollendorf to be near
prospering on Burkersdorf Height,--unless Wied too have prospered,
Ludwigsdorf batteries and forces will have Mollendorf by the right
flank, and between two fires he will be ruined; he and everything! On
the other hand, let Wied try first: if Wied can manage Ludwigsdorf,
well: if Wied cannot, he comes home again with small damage; and the
whole Enterprise is off for the present. That was Friedrich's wise
arrangement, and the reason why he so bombards O'Kelly with thunder,
blank mostly.

And indeed, from 4 this morning and till 4 in the afternoon, there is
such an outburst and blazing series of Scenic Effect, and thunder mostly
blank, going on far and near all over that District of Coun