30,000; Eugen and Hulsen, not idle for their own part,
wait in those far Western or Ultra-Wittenberg regions (in and beyond
Dessau Country), to join him with their 14,000, when they get signal.
Joined with these, he will be 44,000; he will then cross Elbe somewhere,
probably not where Daun and the Reich imagine, and be in contact with
his Problem; with what a pitch of willingness nobody need be told! Daun,
in Torgau Country, has one of the best positions; nor is Daun a man for
getting flurried.

The poor Reichs Army, though it once flattered itself with intending to
dispute Friedrich's passage of the Elbe, and did make some detachings
and manoeuvrings that way, on his approach to Wittenberg (October
22d-23d),--took a safer view, on his actual arrival there, on his
re-seizure of that ruined place, and dangerous attitude on the right
bank below and above. Safer view, on salutary second thoughts;--and fell
back Leipzig-way, southward to Duben, 30 or 40 miles. Whence rapidly to
Leipzig itself, 30 or 40 more, on his actually putting down his bridges
over Elbe. Friedrich's crossing-place was Schanzhaus, in Dessau Country,
between Roslau and Klikau, 12 or 15 miles below Wittenberg; about midway
between Wittenberg and the inflow of the Mulda into Elbe. He crossed
OCTOBER 26th, no enemy within wind at all; Daun at Torgau in his
inexpugnable Camp, Reichsfolk at Duben, making towards Leipzig at their
best pace. And is now wholly between Elbe and Mulda; nothing but Mulda
and the Anhall Countries and the Halle Country now to rear of him.

At Jonitz, next march southward, he finds the Eugen-Hulsen people ready.
We said they had not been idle while waiting signal: of which here
is one pretty instance. Eugen's Brother, supreme Reigning Duke of
Wurtemberg,--whom we parted with at Fulda, last Winter, on sore
terms; but who again, zealous creature, heads his own little Army in
French-Austrian service, in still more eclipsed circumstances ("No
subsidy at all, this Year, say your august Majesties? Well, I must do
without: a volunteer; and shall need only what I can make by forced
contributions!" which of course he is diligent to levy wherever
possible),--has latterly taken Halle Country in hand, very busy raising
contributions there: and Eugen hears, not without interest, that certain
regiments or detachments of his, pushed out, are lying here, there,
superintending that salutary work,--within clutch, perhaps, of Kleist
the Hussar! Eugen d