hing of his art has the direction; and a General without sense in
Sieging has the command. Everybody is at a NON PLUS, it appears! Not
all our Artillery can silence that Front-fire; not in a single place can
Thirty stupid Miners get into the Fort.' To-day and yesterday the
King spoke neither to General Tauentzien nor to Major Lefebvre;
Lieutenant-Colonel von Anhalt had to give all the Orders." An electric
kind of day!

The weather is becoming wet. In fact, there ensue whole weeks of
rain,--the trenches swimming, service very hard. Guasco's guns are
many of them dismounted; no Daun to be heard of. Guasco again and again
proposes modified capitulations; answer always, "Prisoners of War on the
common terms." Guasco is wearing low: OCTOBER 7th (Lefebvre sweating
and puffing at his last Globe of Expression, hoping to hit the mark this
last time), an accidental grenade from Tauentzien, above ground, rolled
into one of Guasco's powder-vaults; blew it, and a good space of Wall
along with it, into wreck; two days after which, Guasco had finished his
Capitulating;--and we get done with this wearisome affair. [Tempelhof,
vi. 122-220; _Tagebuch von der Belagerung von Schweidnitz vom 7ten
August bis 9ten October, 1762_ (Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ iii. 376-497);
Tielke, &c. &c.] Guasco was invited to dine with the King; praised for
his excellent defence. Prisoners of War his Garrison and he; about 9,000
of them still on their feet; their entire loss had been 3,552 killed and
wounded; that of the Prussians 3,033. Poor Guasco died, in Konigsberg,
still prisoner, before the Peace came.

Of Austrian fighting in Silesia, this proved to be the last, in the
present Controversy which has endured so long. No thought of fighting
is in Daun; far the reverse. Daun is getting ill off for horse-forage
in his Mountains; the weather is bad upon him; we hear "he has had, for
some time past, 12,000 laborers" palisading and fortifying at the Passes
of Bohemia: "Truce for the Winter" is what he proposes. To which the
King answers, "No; unless you retire wholly within Bohemia and Glatz
Country:" this at present Daun grudged to do; but was forced to it, some
weeks afterwards, by the sleets and the snows, had there been no other
pressure. In about three weeks hence, Friedrich, leaving Bevern in
command here, and a Silesia more or less adjusted, made for Saxony;
whither important reinforcements had preceded him,--reinforcements under
General Wied, the instant i