viate of Hesse-Cassel, and in the
bishoprics of Munster, Paderborn, and Hildesheim. The British troops
had joined them so late in the season that they had no opportunity to
signalize themselves in the field; yet the fatigues of the campaign,
which they had severely felt, proved fatal to their commander, the
duke of Marlborough, who died of a dysentery at Munster, universally
lamented.

OPERATIONS OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

Having thus particularized the operations of the allied army since the
commencement of the campaign, we shall now endeavour to trace the steps
of the king of Prussia, from the period to which his army was assembled
for action. Having collected his force as soon as the season
would permit, he undertook the siege of Schweidnitz in form on the
twenty-first day of March; and carried on his operations with such
vigour, that in thirteen days the garrison surrendered themselves
prisoners of war, after having lost one half of their number in the
defence of the place. While one part of Lis troops were engaged in this
service, he himself, at the head of another, advanced to the eastern
frontier of Bohemia, and sent a detachment as far as Trautenaw,
garrisoned by a body of Austrians, who, after an obstinate resistance,
abandoned the place, and retreated towards their grand army. By this
success he opened to himself a way into Bohemia, by which he poured
in detachments of light troops, to raise contributions and harass the
out-posts of the enemy. At the same time the baron de la Mothe Fouquet
marched with another body against the Austrian general Jahnus, posted
in the county of Glatz, whom he obliged to abandon all the posts he
occupied in that country, and pursued as far as Nashod, within twenty
miles of Koningsgratz, where the grand Austrian army was encamped, under
the command of mareschal Daun, who had lately arrived from Vienna. Over
and above these excursions, the king ordered a body of thirty thousand
men to be assembled, to act under the command of his brother prince
Henry,* an accomplished warrior, against the army of the empire, which
the prince de Deux-ponts, with great difficulty, made a shift to form
again near Bamberg, in Franconia.

* At this juncture the Prussian commandant of Dresden being
admitted into the Japan palace, to see the curious
porcelaine with which it is adorned, perceived a door built
up; and ordering the passage to be opened, entered a large
apartme