r, in sight of the
enemy, as prevented a pursuit, or the loss of his artillery and baggage.
Almost all the officers on either side distinguished themselves;
and count Daun, whose conduct emulated that of his Prussian majesty,
received two slight wounds, and had a horse killed under him. The losses
of both armies were very considerable; on that of the Prussians, the
killed and wounded amounted to eight thousand; less pernicious,
however, to his majesty's cause than the frequent desertion, and other
innumerable ill consequences that ensued.

When the Prussian army arrived at Nimburgh, his majesty, leaving the
command with the prince of Be-vern, took horse, and, escorted by twelve
or fourteen hussars, set out for Prague, where he arrived next morning
without halting, after having been the whole preceding day on
horseback. Immediately he gave orders for sending off all his artillery,
ammunition, and baggage; these were executed with so much expedition,
that the tents were struck, and the army on their march, before the
garrison were informed of the king's defeat. Thus terminated the battle
of Kolin and siege of Prague, in which the acknowledged errors of his
Prussian majesty were, in some measure, atoned by the candour with which
he owned his mistake, both in a letter to the earl mareschal, [419]
_[See note 3 I, at the end of this Vol.]_ and in conversation with
several of his general officers. Most people, indeed, imagined the king
highly blameable for checking the ardour of his troops to stop and lay
siege to Prague. They thought he should have pursued his conquests,
over-run Austria, Moravia, and all the hereditary dominions, from which
alone the empress-queen could draw speedy succours. A body of twenty or
thirty thousand men would have blocked up Prague, while the remainder
of the Prussian forces might have obliged the imperial family to retire
from Vienna, and effectually prevented count Daun from assembling
another army. It was universally expected he would have bent his march
straight to this capital; but he dreaded leaving the numerous army in
Prague behind, and it was of great importance to complete the conquest
of Bohemia. The prince of Prussia marched all night with his corps to
Nimburgh, where he joined the prince of Bevern, and mareschal Keith
retreated next day. Count Brown having died before, of the wounds he
received on the sixth of May, prince Charles of Lorraine sallied out
with a large body of Austrians,