hat the
king of Prussia himself would soon attack the Russian army, such threats
served only to weaken the ambassador's proposals; to confirm still more,
were it possible, the empress in her resolutions; to justify them to the
whole world, and to render the king of Prussia more blameable."

KING OF PRUSSIA ENTERS BOHEMIA.

The season now drawing on in which the troops of the contending powers
would be able to take the field, and the alarming progress of the
Russians being happily stopped, his Prussian majesty, whose maxim it
has always been to keep the seat of war as far as possible from his own
dominions, resolved to carry it into Bohemia, and there to attack the
Austrians on all sides. To this end he ordered his armies in Saxony,
Misnia, Lusatia, and Silesia, to enter Bohemia in four different and
op-opposite places, nearly at the same time. The first of these he
commanded in person, assisted by mareschal Keith; the second was led
by prince Maurice of Anhault-Dessau, the third by prince Ferdinand of
Brunswick-Bevern, and the fourth by mareschal Schwerin. In consequence
of this plan, mareschal Schwerin's army entered Bohemia on the
eighteenth of April, in five columns, at as many different places.
The design was so well concerted, that the Austrians had not the least
suspicion of their approach until they were past the frontiers, and
then they filled the dangerous defile of Guelder-Oesle with pandours,
to dispute that passage; but they were no sooner discovered than two
battalions of Prussian grenadiers attacked them with their bayonets
fixed, and routed them. The prince of Anhault passed the frontiers
from Misnia, and penetrated into Bohemia on the twenty-first of April,
without any resistance. The prince of Bevern, on the twentieth of the
same month, having marched at the head of a body of the army, which
was in Lusatia, from the quarters of cantonment near Zittau, possessed
himself immediately of the first post on the frontier of Bohemia, at
Krouttau and Grasenstein, without the loss of a single man; drove away
the enemy the same day from Kratzen, and proceeded to Machendorf, near
Reichenberg. The same morning Putkammer's hussars, who formed part of
a corps, commanded by a colonel and major, routed some hundreds of the
enemy's cuirassiers, posted before Kolin, under the conduct of prince
Lichenstein, took three officers and upwards of sixty horse prisoners,
and so dispersed the rest, that they were scarcely a