unds; to each private soldier who had
been of the storm, say half a guinea,--doubling and quadrupling, in the
special cases, to as high as twenty guineas, of our present money. To
the old Gazetteers, and their readers everywhere, this of Glogau is a
very effulgent business; bursting out on them, like sudden Bude-light,
in the uncertain stagnancy and expectancy of mankind. Friedrich himself
writes of it to the Old Dessauer:--

"The more I think of the Glogau business, the more important I find it.
Prince Leopold has achieved the prettiest military stroke (DIE SCHONSTE
ACTION) that has been done in this Century. From my heart I congratulate
you on having such a Son. In boldness of resolution, in plan, in
execution, it is alike admirable; and quite gives a turn to my affairs."
[Date, 13th March, 1741 (Orlich, i. 77).]

And indeed, it is a perfect example of Prussian discipline, and military
quality in all kinds; such as it would be difficult to match elsewhere.
Most potently correct; coming out everywhere with the completeness and
exactitude of mathematics; and has in it such a fund of martial fire,
not only ready to blaze out (which can be exampled elsewhere), but
capable of bottling itself IN, and of lying silently ready. Which is
much rarer; and very essential in soldiering! Due a little to the OLD
Dessauer, may we not say, as well as to the Young? Friedrich Wilhelm is
fallen silent; but his heavy labors, and military and other drillings to
Prussian mankind, still speak with an audible voice.

About three weeks after this of Glogau, Leopold the Old Dessauer, over
in Brandenburg, does another thing which is important to Friedrich, and
of great rumor in the world. Steps out, namely, with a force of 36,000
men, horse, foot and artillery, completely equipped in all points; and
takes Camp, at this early season, at a place called Gottin, not far from
Magdeburg, handy at once for Saxony and for Hanover; and continues there
encamped,--"merely for review purposes." Readers can figure what an
astonishment it was to Kur-Sachsen and British George; and how it struck
the wind out of their Russian Partition-Dream, and awoke them to a sense
of the awful fact!--Capable of being slit in pieces, and themselves
partitioned, at a day's warning, as it were! It was on April 2d, that
Leopold, with the first division of the 36,000, planted his flag near
Gottin. No doubt it was the "detestable Project" that had brought him
out, at so early a