gained general favor in Berlin
society; wished, in 1756, to take service with Friedrich on the breaking
out of this War. 'A Colonel with me, yes,' said Friedrich. But Tottleben
had been Major-General among the Dutch, and could not consent to sink;
had to go among the Russians for a Major-Generalcy; and there
and elsewhere, for many years coming, had many adventures, mostly
troublesome, which shall not be memorable to us here. [Sketch of
Tottleben's Life; in RODENBECK, ii. 69-72.]

"Lacy, who, after hovering about in these vicinities for four days, had
now actually come up, so soon as Eugen and Hulsen withdrew,--was deeply
disgusted at the Terms of Capitulation; angry to find that Tottleben
had concluded without him; and, in fact, flew into open rage at
the arrangements Tottleben had made for himself and for others. 'No
admittance, except on order from his Excellency!' said the Russian
Sentry to Lacy's Austrians: upon which, Lacy forced the Gate,
and violently marched in. Took lodging, to his own mind, in the
Friedrichstadt quarter; and was fearfully truculent upon person and
property, during his short stay. A scandal to be seen, how his Croats
and loose hordes went openly ravening about, bent on mere housebreaking,
street-robbery and insolent violence. So that Tottleben had fairly to
fire upon the vagabonds once or twice; and force on the unwilling
Lacy some coercion of them within limits. For the three days of his
continuance,--it was but three days in all,--Lacy was as the evil genius
of Berlin; Tottleben and his Russians the good. Their discipline was so
excellent; all Cossacks and loose rabble strictly kept out beyond the
Walls. To Bachmann, Russian Commandant, the Berliners, on his departure,
had gratefully got ready a money-gift of handsome amount: 'By no means,'
answered Bachmann: 'your treatment was according to the mildness of our
Sovereign Czarina. For myself, if I have served you in anything, the
fact that for three days I have been Commandant of the Great Friedrich's
Capital is more than a reward to me.'

"Tottleben and Lacy, during those three days of Russian and Austrian
joint dominion, had a stormy time of it together. 'Destroy the
LAGER-HAUS,' said Lacy: Lager-Haus, where they manufacture their
soldiers' uniforms; it is the parent of all cloth-manufacturing in
Prussia; set up by Friedrich Wilhelm,--not on free-trade principles.
'The Lager-Haus, say you? I doubt, it is now private property; screened
by