which my best infantry could not carry. Ferdinand, who commanded them,
returned seven times to the charge; but to no purpose. At first he
mastered a battery, but could not hold it. The enemy had the advantage
of a numerous and well-served artillery. It did honour to Lichtenstein,
who had the direction. Only the Prussian army can dispute it with
him. My infantry were too few. All my cavalry were present, and idle
spectators, excepting a bold push by my household troops, and some
dragoons. Ferdinand attacked without powder; the enemy, in return, were
not sparing of theirs. They had the advantage of a rising ground, of
intrenchments, and of a prodigious artillery. Several of my regiments
were repulsed by their musketry. Henry performed wonders. I tremble for
my worthy brothers; they are too brave. Fortune turned her back on me
this day. I ought to have expected it; she is a female, and I am no
gallant. In fact, I ought to have had more infantry. Success, my dear
lord, often occasions destructive confidence. Twenty-four battalions
were not sufficient to dislodge sixty thousand men from an advantageous
post. Another time we will do better. What say you of this league, which
has only the marquis of Brandenburgh for its object? The great elector
would be surprised to see his grandson at war with the Russians,
the Austrians, almost all Germany, and an hundred thousand French
auxiliaries. I know not whether it would be disgrace in me to submit,
but I am sure there will be no glory in vanquishing me."]

[Footnote 422: Note 3 K, p. 422. This remarkable capitulation, which
we shall give here at full length, on account of the disputes that rose
shortly after, concerning what the French called an infraction of it,
was to the following effect:--

His majesty, the king of Denmark--touched with the distresses of the
countries of Bremen and Verden, to which he has always granted his
special protection; and being desirous, by preventing those countries
from being any longer the theatre of war, to spare also the effusion
of blood in the armies which are ready to dispute the possession
thereof--hath employed his mediation by the ministry of the count de
Lynar. His royal highness the duke of Cumberland, general of the army
of the allies, on the one part, and his excellency the mareschal duke
de Richelieu, general of the king of France's forces in Germany, on the
other, have, in consideration of the intervention of his Danish majesty,
re