Dresden has been reduced to ashes, third part of the Altstadt lying burnt;--contrary to my intentions: my orders were, To spare the City, and play the Artillery against the works.

My Minister Graf von Finck will have told you what occasioned its being set on fire." [Schoning, ii.

361 ("2d-3d July").] HENRI (July 26th; Dresden Siege gone awry)....

"I am to keep the Russians from Frankfurt, to cover Glogau, and prevent a besieging of Breslau! All that forms an overwhelming problem;--which I, with my whole heart, will give up to somebody abler for it than I am." [Ib.

ii.
369-371 ("Landsherg, 26th July").] FRIEDRICH (29th July; quits the Trenches of Dresden this night).