Gone wholly,--with their equipments and appurtenances wholly, which are not worth counting in comparison.

Finck and the other Generals, 8 of them, and 529 Officers,--Finck, Wunsch, Wolfersdorf, Mosel (of the Olmutz Convoy), not to mention others of known worth, this is itself a sore loss to Friedrich, and in present circumstances an irreparable.

[Seyfarth, ii.
576; in _Helden-Geschichte,_ (v.

1115), the Vienna Account.] The outburst and paroxysm of Gazetteer rumor, which arose in Europe over this, must be left to the imagination; still more the whirlwind of astonishment, grief, remorse and indignation that raged in the heart of Friedrich on first hearing of it.

"The Caudine Forks;" "Scene of Pirna over again, in reverse form;" "Is not your King at last over with it ?" said and sang multifariously the Gazetteers.