It was not Haddick, it was a swarm of Cossacks who laid Hordt fast; his horse having gone to the girths in a bog.

[_Memoires du Comte de Hordt_ (a Berlin, 1789), ii.

53-58 (not dated or intelligible there): in Tempelhof (iii.

235, 236) clear account, "Trebatsch, September 4th."] Hordt, an Ex-Swede of distinction,--a Royalist Exile, on whose head the Swedes have set a price (had gone into 'Brahe's Plot,' years since, Plot on behalf of the poor Swedish King, which cost Brahe his life),--Hordt now might have fared ill, had not Friedrich been emphatic, 'Touch a hair of him, retaliation follows on the instant!' He was carried to Petersburg; 'lay twenty-six months and three days' in solitary durance there; and we may hear a word from him again." ZIETHEN ALMOST CAPTURED.

"Prince Henri, in the last days of August, marched to Sagan in person; [Tempelhof, iii.