"My dearest Brother,--In the List you send me of those seventeen Austrian regiments, several, I am informed, are still in Saxony; and by all the news that I get, there are only eight gone towards Silesia."-- "From Leipzig my accounts are, the Reichs Army is to make a movement in advance, and Prince Xavier with the Saxons was expected at Naumburg the 20th ult.

I know not if you have arranged with Duke Ferdinand for a proportionate succor, in case his French also should try to penetrate into Saxony upon me?
I am, with the profoundest attachment, your faithful and devoted servant and Brother." KING (30th March).

"Seventeen of them, you may depend; I am too well informed to be allowed to doubt in any way.

What you report of the Reichsfolk and Saxons moving hither, thither; that seems to me a bit of game on their part.

They will try to cut one post from you, then another, unless you assemble a corps and go in upon them.