"To your Royal Majesty, send [no pronoun "I" allowed] herewith a Corporal, who has deserted from the Austrians.

He says, Sincere with the Reserve did march with the Reichs Army; but a league behind it, and turned towards Dippoldiswalde.

General Brentano [Wehla's old comrade, luckier than Wehla], as this Deserter heard last night in Daun's head-quarter,--which is in the southern Suburb of Dresden, in the Countess Moschinska's Garden,--was yesterday to have been in Dohlen [looking into our outposts from the hither side of their Plauen Dell], but was not there any longer," as our Deserter passed, "and it was said that he had gone to Maxen at three in the afternoon." [Tempelhof, iii.

309.] Thus curtly is Finck authorized to judge for himself in the new circumstances.

Marginally is added, in Friedrich's own hand: "ER WIRD ENTWEDER MIT DEN REICHERN ODER MIT SICEREN EINEN GANG HABEN,--Either with the Reichers or with Sincere you will have a bout, I suppose." MAP FACING PAGE 350, BOOK XIX GOES HERE---- Finck, from his own Hill-top, on Sunday and Monday, sees all this of Ziethen, and much more.