but the baggages and bakeries left [with Quintus to watch
them, which I see is his common function in these marches]; King himself
in the Vanguard,--who hopes to give Lacy a salutation. [Tempelhof, iv.
56.] 'The march was full of defiles,' says Mitchell: and Mitchell, in
his carriage, knew little what a region it was, with boggy intricacies,
lakelets, tangly thickets, stocks and stumps; or what a business to pass
with heavy cannon, baggage-wagons and columns of men! Such a march; and
again not far from twenty miles of it: very hot, as the morning broke,
in the breathless woods. Had Lacy known what kind of ground we had to
march in, and been enterprising--! thinks Tempelhof. The march being
so retarded, Lacy got notice of it, and vanished quite away,--to
Bischofswerda, I believe, and the protecting neighborhood of Daun.
Nothing of him left when we emerge, simultaneously from this hand and
from that, on his front and on his rear, to take him as in a vice, as in
the sudden snap of a fox-trap;--fox quite gone. Hardly a few hussars of
him to be picked up; and no chase possible, after such a march."

Friedrich had done everything to keep himself secret: but Lacy has
endless Pandours prowling about; and, I suppose, the Country-people
(in the Lausitz here, who ought to have loyalty) are on the Lacy side.
Friedrich has to take his disappointment. He encamps here, on the
Heights, head-quarter Pulsnitz,--till Quintus come up with the baggage,
which he does punctually, but not till nightfall, not till midnight the
last of him.

SATURDAY, JULY 5th. "To the road again at 3 A.M. Again to northward, to
Kloster (CLOISTER) Marienstern, a 15 miles or so,--head-quarter in the
Cloister itself. Daun had set off for Bautzen, with his 50 or 60,000,
in the extremest push of haste, and is at Bautzen this night; ahead
of Friedrich, with Lacy as rear-guard of him, who is also ahead of
Friedrich, and safe at Bischofswerda. A Daun hastening as never before.
This news of a Daun already at Bautzen awakened Friedrich's utmost
speed: 'Never do, that Daun be in Silesia before us! Indispensable to
get ahead of Bautzen and him, or to be waiting on the flank of his next
march!' Accordingly,

"SUNDAY, JULY 6th, Friedrich, at 3 A.M., is again in motion; in three
columns, streaming forward all day: straight eastward, Daun-ward.
Intends to cross the Spree, leaving Bautzen to the right; and take
post somewhere to northeast of Bautzen, and on the flank of Daun.