r him, obscure to us henceforth, and inoffensive to Official
people. Reichs Army shall take charge of Saxony; nominally a Reichs
Army, though there are 35,000 Austrians in it, as the soul of it, under
some Serbelloni, some Stollberg as Chief--(the fact, I believe, is:
Serbelloni got angrily displaced on that "crossing of the Mulda by
Prince Henri, May 13th;" Prince of Zweibruck had angrily abdicated a
year before; and a Prince von Stollberg is now Generalissimo of
Reich and Allies: but it is no kind of matter),--some Stollberg,
with Serbelloni, Haddick, Maguire and such like in subaltern places.
Cunctator Daun, in spite of his late sleepy ways, is to be Head-man
again: this surely is a cheering circumstance to Friedrich; Loudon, not
Daun, being the only man he ever got much ill of hitherto.

Daun arrives in Waldenburg, May 9th; and to show that he is not
cunctatory, steps out within a week after. May 15th, he has descended
from his Mountains; has swept round by the back and by the front of
Schweidnitz, far and wide, into the Plain Country, and encamped himself
crescent-wise, many miles in length, Head-quarter near the Zobtenberg.
Bent fondly round Schweidnitz; meaning, as is evident, to defend
Schweidnitz against all comers,--his very position symbolically
intimating: "I will fight for it, Prussian Majesty, if you like!"

Prussian Majesty, however, seemed to take no notice of him; and, what
was very surprising, kept his old quarters: "a Cantonment, or Chain of
Posts, ten miles long; Schweidnitz Water on his right flank, Oder on his
left;" perfectly safe, as he perceives, being able to assemble in four
hours, if Daun try anything. [Tempelhof, vi. 66.] And, in fact,
sat there, and did not come into the Field at all for five weeks or
more;--waiting till Czernichef's 20,000 arrive, who are on march from
Thorn since June 2d. Mere small-war goes on in the interim; world
getting all greener and flowerier; the Glatz Highlands, to one's left
yonder (Owl-Mountains, EULENGEBIRGE so called), lying magically blue
and mysterious:--on the Plain in front of them, ten miles from the
final peaks of them, is Schweidnitz Fortress, lying full in view, with
a picked Garrison of 12,000 under a picked Captain, and all else of
defence or impregnability; and Friedrich privately determined to take
it, though by methods of his own choosing, and which cannot commence
till Czernichef come. Daun, with his right wing, has hold of those
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