aderborn, as far as Cassel; that the enemy may
find it quite impracticable to direct their march to the Rhine, or the
lower Roer; and this with regard to your army, and with regard to the
army under M. de Soubise, that they may not have it in their power to
take possession of Cassel, and much less to march to Marburg, or to the
quarters which he will have along the Lahn, or to those which you will
occupy, from the lower part of the left side of the Roer, and on the
right side of the Rhine, as far as Dusseldorp, and at Cologne."--

"You know the necessity of consuming or destroying, as far as is
possible, all the subsistence, especially the forage betwixt the Weser
and the Rhine on the one hand, and on the other betwixt the Lippe, the
bishopric of Paderborn, the Dymel, the Fulda, and the Nerra; and so to
make a desert of Westphalia and Hesse."--

"Although the prince of Waldeck appears outwardly neutral, he is very
ill-disposed, and deserves very little favour. You ought, therefore, to
make no scruple of taking all you find in that territory: but this must
be done in an orderly manner, giving receipts, and observing the most
exact discipline. All the subsistence you leave in this country will
fall to the enemy's share, who will, by that means, be enabled to
advance to the Lahn, and towards the quarters which you are to occupy
on the left side of the Roer. It is therefore a precaution become in a
manner indispensably necessary, to carry it all away from thence."--

"The question now is, what plan you shall think most proper for
accomplishing, in the quickest and surest manner, our great purpose:
which must be to consume, carry off, or destroy, all the forage and
subsistence of the country which we cannot keep possession of."--

"The upper part of the Lippe, and the country of Paderborn, are the most
plentiful; they must therefore be eat to the very roots.".....

"You did mighty well to talk in the most absolute tone with regard to
the necessaries Racroth and Duysbourg must furnish our troops: it is
necessary to speak in that tone to Germans; and you will find your
account in using the same to the regencies of the elector of Cologne,
and still more to that of the palatine.

"After using all becoming ceremony, as we have the power in our hands,
we must make use of it, and draw from the country of Bergue what shall
be necessary for the subsistence of the garrison of Dusseldorp, and of
the light troops, and reserve what