But it was to no purpose.

The Commandant, Colonel von Roth (the same who was proposed for Breslau lately, a wise head and a stout, famed in defences) had "poured water on his ramparts," after well repairing them,--made his ramparts all ice and glass;--and done much else.

Would the reader care to look for a moment?
Here, from our waste Paper-masses, is abundance, requiring only to be abridged:-- "JANUARY, 1741: MONDAY, 9th-WEDNESDAY, 11th.

Monday, 9th, day when that sputter at Ottmachau began,--Prussian light-troops appeared transiently on the heights about Neisse, for the first time.

Directly on sight of whom, Commandant Roth assembled the Burghers of the place; took a new Oath of Fidelity from one and all; admonished them to do their utmost, as they should see him do.