n MINUS, in all. Prisoners
of them were few, and none of much mark: two Field-marshals, Romer and
Goldlein, lie among the dead; four more of that rank are wounded. Four
standards too are gone; certain kettle-drums and the like trophies,
not in great number. Lieutenant-General Browne was of these retreating
Austrians; a little fact worth noting: of his actions this day, or of
his thoughts (which latter surely must have been considerable), no hint
anywhere. The Austrians were not much chased; though they might have
been,--fresh Cavalry (two Ohlau regiments, drawn hither by the sound
[Interesting correct account of their movements and adventures this day
and some previous days, in Nicolai, _Anekdoten,_ ii. 142-148.]) having
hung about to rear of them, for some time past; unable to get into the
Fight, or to do any good till now. Schwerin, they say, though he had
two wounds, was for pursuing vigorously: but Leopold of Anhalt
over-persuaded him; urged the darkness, the uncertainty. Berlichingen,
with their own Horse, still partly covered their rear; and the
Prussians, Ohlauers included, were but weak in that branch of the
service. Pursuit lasted little more than two miles, and was never hot.
The loss of men, on both sides, was not far from equal, and rather in
favor of the Austrian side:--Austrians counted in killed, wounded and
missing, 4,410 men; Prussians 4,613; [Orlich, i. 108; Kansler, p. 235,
correct; _Helden-Geschichte,_ i. 895, incorrect.]--but the Prussians
bivouacked on the ground, or quartered in these Villages, with victory
to crown them, and the thought that their hard day's work had been well
done. Besides Margraf Friedrich, Volunteer from Holland, there lay among
the slain Colonel Count von Finkenstein (Old Tutor's Son), King's friend
from boyhood, and much loved. He was of the six whom we saw consulting
at the door at Reinsberg, during a certain ague-fit; and he now rests
silent here, while the matter has only come thus far.

Such was Mollwitz, the first Battle for Silesia; which had to cost
many Battles first and last. Silesia will be gained, we can expect, by
fighting of this kind in an honest cause. But here is something already
gained, which is considerable, and about which there is no doubt. A
new Military Power, it would appear, has come upon the scene; the
Gazetteer-and-Diplomatic world will have to make itself familiar with a
name not much heard of hitherto among the Nations. "A Nation which can
fight,