e twenty-seventh, they seemed
determined to hazard another action, and even attack the conquerors;
instead of advancing, however, they took the route of Lands-berg; but
afterwards turned off towards Vietzel, and posted themselves between
the rivers Warta and that village. Immediately after the battle, general
Fermer,* who had received a slight wound in the action, sent a trumpet
with a letter to lieutenant-general Dohna, desiring a suspension of arms
for two or three days to bury the dead, and take care of the wounded;
and presenting to his Prussian majesty the humble request of general
Browne, who was much weakened with the loss of blood, that he might have
a passport, by virtue of which he could be removed to a place where he
should find such accommodation as his situation required.

* General Fermer was of Scottish extract, and general Browne
actually a native of North Britain.

In answer to this message, count Dohna gave the Russian general to
understand, that as his Prussian majesty remained master of the field,
he would give the necessary orders for interring the dead, and taking
care of the wounded on both sides: he refused a suspension of arms,
but granted the request of general Browne; and concluded his letter by
complaining of the outrages which the Russian troops still continued to
commit, in pillaging and burning the king's villages.

The king of Prussia had no sooner repulsed the enemy in one quarter,
than his presence was required in another. When he quitted Bohemia,
mareschal Daun, at the head of the Austrian army, and the prince de
Deuxponts, who commanded the forces of the empire, advanced to the Elbe,
in order to surround the king's brother, prince Henry, who, without
immediate succour, would not have been able to preserve his footing in
Saxony. The Prussian monarch, therefore, determined to support him with
all possible expedition. In a few days after the battle he began his
march from Custrin, with a reinforcement of twenty-four battalions and
great part of his cavalry, and pursued his route with such unwearied
diligence, that by the fifth day of September lie reached Torgau, and
on the eleventh joined his brother. Mareschal Daun had posted himself
at Stolpen, to the eastward of the Elbe, in order to preserve an easy
communication with the army of the empire encamped in the neighbourhood
of Koningstein, to favour the operations of general Laudohn, who had
advanced through the Lower Lusati