cessive defeats
that happened in the rear of an unfortunate campaign, would hardly have
been able to maintain his ground at Fribourg, had he not been at this
juncture reinforced by the body of troops under the command of the
hereditary prince of Brunswick. As for Daun, the advantages he had
gained did not elevate his mind above the usual maxims of his cautious
discretion. Instead of attacking the king of Prussia, respectable and
formidable even in adversity, he quietly occupied the strong camp at
Pirna, where he might be at hand to succour Dresden in case it should be
attacked, and maintain his communication with Bohemia.

CONCLUSION OF THE CAMPAIGN.

By this time the Russians had retired to winter-quarters in Poland; and
the Swedes, after a fruitless excursion in the absence of Manteuffel,
retreated to Stralsund and the isle of Rugen. This campaign, therefore,
did not prove more decisive than the last. Abundance of lives were
lost, and great part of Germany was exposed to rapine, murder, famine,
desolation, and every species of misery that war could engender. In vain
the confederating powers of Austria, Russia, and Sweden, united
their efforts to crush the Prussian monarch. Though his army had been
defeated, and he himself totally overthrown with great slaughter in the
heart of his own dominions; though he appeared in a desperate situation,
environed by hostile armies, and two considerable detached bodies of his
troops were taken or destroyed; yet he kept all his adversaries at bay
till the approach of winter, which proved his best auxiliary, and even
maintained his footing in the electorate of Saxony, which seemed to
be the prize contested between him and the Austrian general. Yet, long
before the approach of winter, one would imagine he must have been
crushed between the shock of so many adverse hosts, had they been intent
upon closing him in, and heartily concurred for his destruction; but,
instead of urging the war with accumulated force, they acted in separate
bodies, and with jealous eye seemed to regard the progress of each
other. It was not, therefore, to any compunction, or kind forbearance,
in the court of Vienna, that the inactivity of Daun was owing. The
resentment of the house of Austria seemed, on the contrary, to glow with
redoubled indignation; and the majority of the Germanic body seemed to
enter with warmth into her quarrel. [526] _[See note 4 E, at the end of
this Vol.]_

ARRET OF THE