self, the king detached
six thousand men under general Wunch, to check the progress of the
imperialists in that electorate; and perceiving the Russians intended to
besiege Great Glogau, he, with the rest of the army, took post between
them and that city, so as to frustrate their design. While the four
great armies, commanded by the king of Prussia, general Soltikoff,
prince Henry, and count Daun, lay encamped in Lusatia, and on the
borders of Silesia, watching the motions of each other, the war was
carried on by detachments with great vivacity. General Wunch having
retaken Leipsic, and joined Finck at Rulinbourg, the united body began
their march towards Dresden; and a detachment from the army of the
empire, which had encamped near Dobelia, retired at their approach.
As they advanced to Nossin, general Haddick abandoned the advantageous
posts he occupied near Roth-Seemberg; and, being joined by the whole
army of the empire, resolved to attack the Prussian generals, who now
encamped at Corbitz near Meissen. Accordingly, on the twenty-first day
of September, he advanced against them, and endeavoured to dislodge them
by a furious cannonade, which was mutually maintained from morning to
night, when he found himself obliged to retire with considerable loss;
leaving the field of battle, with about five hundred prisoners, in the
hands of the Prussians.

GENERAL FINCK SURROUNDED AND TAKEN.

This advantage was succeeded by another exploit of prince Henry, who, on
the twenty-third day of the month, quitted his camp at Hornsdorf, near
Gorlitz; and, after an incredible march of eleven German miles, by the
way of Rothenberg, arrived about five in the afternoon at Hoyerswerda,
where he surprised a body of four thousand men, commanded by general
Vehla, killed six hundred, and made twice that number prisoners;
including the commander himself. After this achievement he joined the
corps of Finck and Wunch; while mareschal Daun likewise abandoned
his camp in Lusatia, and made a forced march to Dresden, in order to
frustrate the prince's supposed design on that capital. The Russians,
disappointed in their scheme upon Glogau, had repassed the Oder at
Neusalze, and were en? camped at Fraustadt; general Laudohn, with a body
of Austrians, lay at Sclichtingsheim; and the king of Prussia at Koben;
all three on or near the banks of that river. Prince Henry, perceiving
his army almost surrounded by Austrian detachments, ordered general
Fin