You will be my consolation and my hope."-- This day,--let readers mark the circumstance,--Friedrich, in better spirits, detaches Wunsch with some poor 6,000, to try if he can be of help in Saxony; where the Reichs Army, now arrived in force, and with nothing whatever in the field against them, is taking all the Northward Garrison-Towns, and otherwise proceeding at a high rate.

Too possibly with an eye towards Dresden itself! Wunsch sets out August 21st.
[Tempelhof, iii.

211.] And we shall hear of him in those Saxon Countries before long.
4.

FURSTENWALDE, 22d AUGUST.

"Yesterday I wrote to you to come; but to-day I forbid it.