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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ... Kirschleben, near Erfurt, 20th September 1757. madame, --Nothing could happen more glorious to my troops than that of fighting, Madame, under your eyes and for your defence. I wish their help could be useful to you; but I foresee the reverse. If I were obstinately to insist on maintaining the post of Gotha with Infantry, I should ruin your City for you, Madame, by attracting thither and fixing there the theatre of the War; whereas, by the present course, you will only have to suffer little rubs(passades), which will not last long. A thousand thanks that you could, in a day like yester day, find the moment to think of your Friends, and to employ yourself for them. (Seidlitz's attack was brisk, quite sudden, with an effect like Harlequin's sword in Pantomimes; and Gotha in every corner, especially in the Schloss below and above stairs, --dinner cooked for A, and eaten by B, in that manner, --must have been the most agitated of little Cities.) I will neglect nothing of what you have the goodness to tell me; I shall profit by these notices. Heaven grant it might be for the deliverance and the security of Germany! The most signal mark of obedience I can give you con sists unquestionably in doing your bidding with this Letter. (Bum it, so soon as read.) I should have kept it as a monu ment of your generosity and courage: but, Madame, since you dispose of it otherwise, your orders shall be executed; persuaded that if one cannot serve one's friends, one must at least avoid hurting them; that one may be less circumspect for one's own interest, but that one must be prudent and even timid for theirs. I am wit...

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