"Remain at Berlin as long as you can," he writes to Eugene, March 5th.

"Make examples for the sake of discipline.

At the least insult, whether from a village or a town, were it from Berlin itself, burn it down." The chief thing that still concerns him is the vagueness of Eugene's reports, which leave him no option but to get news about his troops in Germany from _the English newspapers_.

"Do not forget," he writes again on March 14th, "that Prussia has only four millions of people.

She never in her most prosperous times had more than 150,000 troops.