I have been expecting answer from hour to hour; cannot suitably begin a War-Expedition till it come; do therefore apprise Your Dilection, though under the deepest secrecy.
"And it is necessary, and my Will is, That, till farther order, you keep all the regiments and corps belonging to your Column in the places where they are when this arrives.

And shall, meanwhile, with your best skill mask all this, both from the Town of Halle, and from the regiments themselves; making, in conformity with what I said yesterday, as if you were a Corps of Observation come to encamp here, and were waiting the last orders to go into camp." "FRIEDRICH." [Ib.

ii.

7, 8.] And in regard to the Vienna Courier, and Friedrich's attitude towards that Phenomenon, read only these Two Notes:-- 1.

FRIEDRICH TO THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA AND THE PRINCESS AMELIA (at Berlin) POTSDAM, "25th August," 1756.
"MY DEAR BROTHER, MY DEAR SISTER,--I write to you both at once, for want of time.