They have 5 cannon, carry otherwise a minimum of baggage; are swift wild fellows, sharp of stroke; and do, for the time, prove didactic to the Reich; bringing home to its very bosom the late great lesson of the Ziscaberg, in an applied form.

Mayer made a pretty course of it, into the Ober-Pfalz Countries; scattering the poor Execution Drill-Sergeants and incipiencies of preparation, the deliberative County Meetings, KREIS-Convents: ransoming Cities, Nurnberg for one city, whose cries went to Friedrich on the Ziscaberg, and wide over the world.

[In _Helden-Geschichte,_ iv.

360-367, the Nurnberg Letter and Response (31st May-5th June, 1757): in Pauli, _Leben grosser Helden_ (iii.

159 et seq.), Account of the Mayer Expedition; also in _Militair-Lexikon, _ iii.