e battalions from General Hulsen; and the day after to-morrow, when
General Wied [coming by Meissen Bridge, it appears] shall have reached
the Katzenhauser, the whole of General Hulsen's troops will join me.
Directly thereupon I shall--" [Schoning, p. 493.] Or no more of
that second Despatch; Friedrich's LETTER IN RESPONSE is better worth
giving:--

"LOWENBERG, 2d November, 1762.

"MY DEAR BROTHER,--The arrival of Kalkreuter [so he persists in calling
him], and of your Letter, my dear Brother, has made me twenty [not to
say forty] years younger: yesterday I was sixty, to-day hardly eighteen.
I bless Heaven for preserving you in health (BONNE SANTE," so we term
escape of lesion in fight); "and that things have passed so happily! You
took the good step of attacking those who meant to attack you; and, by
your good and solid measures (DISPOSITIONS), you have overcome all the
difficulties of a strong Post and a vigorous resistance. It is a service
so important rendered by you to the State, that I cannot enough express
my gratitude, and will wait to do it in person.

"Kalkreuter will explain what motions I--... If Fortune favor our views
on Dresden [which it cannot in the least, at this late season], we shall
indubitably have Peace this Winter or next Spring,--and get honorably
out of a difficult and perilous conjuncture, where we have often seen
ourselves within two steps of total destruction. And, by this which you
have now done, to you alone will belong the honor of having given the
final stroke to Austrian Obstinacy, and laid the foundations of the
Public Happiness, which will be the consequence of Peace.--F." [Ib. iii.
495, 496.]

Two days after this, November 4th, Friedrich is in Meissen; November
9th, he comes across to Freyberg; has pleasant day,--pleasant survey
of the Battle-field, Henri and Seidlitz escorting as guides. Henri,
in furtherance of the Dresden project, has Kleist out on the Bohemian
Magazines,--"That is the one way to clear Dresden neighborhood of
Enemies!" thinks Henri always. Kleist burns the considerable magazine of
Saatz; finds the grand one of Leitmeritz too well guarded for him:--upon
which, in such snowdrifts and sleety deluges, is not Dresden plainly
impossible, your Majesty? Impossible, Friedrich admits,--the rather as
he now sees Peace to be coming without that. Freyberg has at last broken
the back of Austrian Obstinacy. "Go in upon the Reich," Friedrich now
orders Kleist, the instant Kle