we are saved; if not so, we
are lost! To-day I have taken this Camp of Dobritz, in order to be more
collected, and in condition to fight well, should occasion rise,--and
in case all this that is said and written to me about the Turks is TRUE
[which nothing of it was], to be able to profit by it when the time
comes." [Schoning, ii. 341 ("Gross-Dobritz, 26th June, 1760").]

HENRI (simultaneously, June 26th: Henri is forward from Sagan, through
Frankfurt, and got settled at Landsberg, where he remains through the
rest of the Dialogue).... Tottleben, with his Cossacks, scouring
about, got a check from us,--nothing like enough. "By all my accounts,
Soltikof, with the gross of the Russians, is marching for Posen. The
other rumors and symptoms agree in indicating a separate Corps, under
Fermor, who is to join Tottleben, and besiege Colberg: if both these
Corps, the Colberg and the Posen one, act, in concert, my embarrassment
will be extreme.... I have just had news of what has befallen General
Fouquet. Before this stroke, your affairs were desperate enough; now I
see but too well what we have to look for." [Ib. ii. 339 ("Landsberg,
26th June, 1760").] (How comforting!)

FRIEDRICH. "Would to God your prayers for the swift capture of Dresden
had been heard; but unfortunately I must tell you, this stroke has
failed me.... Dresden has been reduced to ashes, third part of the
Altstadt lying burnt;--contrary to my intentions: my orders were, To
spare the City, and play the Artillery against the works. My Minister
Graf von Finck will have told you what occasioned its being set on
fire." [Schoning, ii. 361 ("2d-3d July").]

HENRI (July 26th; Dresden Siege gone awry).... "I am to keep the
Russians from Frankfurt, to cover Glogau, and prevent a besieging of
Breslau! All that forms an overwhelming problem;--which I, with my
whole heart, will give up to somebody abler for it than I am." [Ib. ii.
369-371 ("Landsherg, 26th July").]

FRIEDRICH (29th July; quits the Trenches of Dresden this night). ...
"I have seen with pain that you represent everything to yourself on the
black side. I beg you, in the name of God, my dearest Brother, don't
take things up in their blackest and worst shape:--it is this that
throws your mind into such an indecision, which is so lamentable. Adopt
a resolution rather, what resolution you like, but stand by it, and
execute it with your whole strength. I conjure you, take a fixed
resolution; better a bad than