"It is more probable that we shall be sent to Olmuetz, or to one of the smaller fortresses in Moravia.

The war is, they will think, likely to be confined to Bohemia until the spring; if indeed the king does not have to stand on the defensive.

I cannot help thinking, myself, that we should have done better if we had let things go on quietly till the spring.

It is not probable that Russia and Austria would have been more ready, then, than they are now; and we should have had the whole summer before us, and might have marched to Vienna before the campaign was over.

Now they will all have the winter to make their preparations, and we shall have France, Austria, and Russia, to say nothing of Poland, on our hands.