The utmost of money that could be raised was 6,000 pounds; nothing but some little of plate, and our Bill for the remainder.

Soltikof, a high kind of gentleman, saw at last how it stood; let the Magistrates out of ward; sent back the plate--'Nothing of that!'-- nay, Czarish Majesty was herself generous; and FORGAVE the Bill, on our petition, next Year.

Cossacks, indeed, were a plunderous wild crew; but the Russians kept them mostly without the gates.

The regular Russians were civil and orderly, officers and men,--greatly beyond the Austrians in behavior." [Kriele, _Schlacht bei Kunersdorf;_ pp.

1-15 (in compressed state).] By these few traits conceive Frankfurt: this, now forgotten in most books, is a background on which things were transacted still memorable to everybody.
"Friday, August 3d, General Loudon came to hand: arrived early, in the Guben (or Western) Suburb, his 18,000 and he.