I have begun to settle the Figure of Prussia: the outline will not be altogether regular; for the whole of Silesia is taken, except one miserable hamlet (BICOQUE), which perhaps I shall have to keep blockaded till next spring.
"Up to this time, the whole conquest has cost only Twenty Men, and Two Officers, one of whom is the poor De Rege, whom you have seen at Berlin,"-- De Rege, Engineer Major, killed here at Ottmachau, in Schwerin's late tussle.
"You are greatly wanting to me here.

So soon as you have talked that business over, write to me about it.

[What is the business?
Whither is the dusky Swan of Padua gone ?] In all these three hundred miles I have found no human creature comparable to the Swan of Padua.

I would willingly give ten cubic leagues of ground for a genius similar to yours.

But I perceive I was about entreating you to return fast, and join me again,--while you are not yet arrived where your errand was.
Make haste to arrive, then; to execute your commission, and fly back to me.