r of count Daun, who was
dangerously wounded in the thigh, and carried off the field of battle.
But the Prussians could not pursue their victory, because the action had
lasted until nine; and the night being unusually dark, facilitated the
retreat of the enemy, who crossed the Elbe on three bridges of boats
thrown over the river at Torgau. The victor possessed the field of
battle, with seven thousand prisoners, including two hundred officers,
twenty-nine pair of colours, one standard, and about forty pieces of
cannon. The carnage was very great on both sides; about three thousand
Prussians were killed, and five thousand wounded; and, in the first
attacks, two general officers, with fifteen hundred soldiers, were made
prisoners by the enemy. The king, as usual, exposed his person in every
part of the battle, and a musket-ball grazed upon his breast. In the
morning, the king of Prussia entered Torgau; then he secured Meissen,
and took possession of Fribourg: so that, in consequence of this
well-timed victory, his position was nearly the same as at the opening
of the campaign.

The Austrians, however, notwithstanding this check, maintained their
ground in the neighbourhood of Dresden; while the Prussians were
distributed in quarters of cantonment in and about Leipsic and Meissen.
As the Austrian general had, after the battle, recalled his detachments,
general Laudohn abandoned Landshut, wrhich again fell into the hands
of the Prussians, and the Imperial army was obliged to retire into
Franconia. The Swedes having penetrated a great way into Pom-crania,
returned again to their winter-quarters at Stralsund; and the
Russian generals measured back their way to the Vistula: so that the
confederates gained little else in the course of this campaign but
the contributions which they raised in Berlin, and the open country
of Brandenburgh. Had the allies been heartily bent upon crushing the
Prussian monarch, one would imagine the Russians and Swedes might have
joined their forces in Pomerania, and made good their winter-quarters in
Brandenburgh, where they could have been supplied with magazines from
the Baltic, and been at hand to commence their operations in the spring;
but, in all probability, such an establishment in the empire would have
given umbrage to the Germanic body.

DIETS of POLAND AND SWEDEN ASSEMBLED.

The diet of Poland being assembled in the beginning of October, the king
entertained the most sanguine hope