"You refused all terms; you have resisted to death (or death's-DOOR); and are now at discretion!" Of the question, What is to be done with those Saxons?
Friedrich had thought a great deal, first and last; and had found it very intricate,--as readers too will, if they think of it.

"Prisoners of War,--to keep them locked up, with trouble and expense, in that fashion?
They can never be exchanged: Saxony has now nothing to exchange them with; and Austria will not.

Their obstinacy has had costs to me; who of us can count what costs! In short, they shall volunteer!" "Never did I, for my poor part, authorize such a thing," loudly asseverated Rutowski afterwards.

And indeed the Capitulation is not precise on that interesting point.

A lengthy Document, and not worth the least perusal otherwise; we condense it into three Articles, all grounding on this general Basis, not deniable by Rutowski: "The Saxon Army, being at such a pass, ready to die of hunger, if we did NOT lift our finger, has, so to speak, become our property; and we grant it the following terms:"-- "1.