far and wide; and gives a great deal of trouble
both to Friedrich and the peaceable inhabitants. So that there is plenty
of Small War always going on:--not mentionable here, any passage of
it, except perhaps one, at a place called Rothschloss; which concerns
a remarkable Prussian Hussar Major, their famed Ziethen, and is still
remembered by the Prussian public.

We have heard of Captain, now Major Ziethen, how Friedrich Wilhelm sent
him to the Rhine Campaign, six years ago, to learn the Hussar Art from
the Austrians there. One Baronay (BARONIAY, or even BARANYAI, as others
write him), an excellent hand, taught him the Art;--and how well he has
learned, Baronay now sadly experiences. The affair of Rothschloss (in
abridged form) befell as follows:--

"In these Small-War businesses, Baronay, Austrian Major-General of
Hussars, had been exceedingly mischievous hitherto. It was but the other
day, a Prussian regular party had to go out upon him, just in time; and
to RE-wrench 'sixty cart-loads of meal,' wrenched by him from suffering
individuals; with which he was making off to Neisse, when the Prussians
[from their Camp of Mollwitz, where they still are] came in sight.

"And now again (May 16th) news is, That Baronay, and 1,400 Hussars with
him, has another considerable set of meal-carts,--in the Village of
Rothschloss, about twenty miles southward, Frankenstein way; and means
to march with them Neisse-ward to-morrow. Two marches or so will bring
him home; if Prussian diligence prevent not. 'Go instantly,' orders
Friedrich,--appointing Winterfeld to do it: Winterfeld with 300
dragoons, with Ziethen and Hussars to the amount of 600; which is more
than one to two of Austrians.

"Winterfeld and Ziethen march that same day; are in the neighborhood of
Rothschloss by nightfall; and take their measures,--block the road
to Neisse, and do other necessary things. And go in upon Baronay next
morning, at the due rate, fiery men both of them; sweep poor Baronay
away, MINUS the meal; who finds even his road blocked (bridge bursting
into cannon-shot upon him, at one point), instead of bridge, a stream,
or slow current of quagmire for him,--and is in imminent hazard.
Ziethen's behavior was superlative (details of it unintelligible off the
ground); and Baronay fled totally in wreck;--his own horse shot, and at
the moment no other to be had; swam the quagmire, or swashed through it,
'by help of a tree;' and had a near miss of capture. Recov