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233 ("Torgau, 26th April, 1760").] Ah, yes; all is so green and blessedly silent there: sight of the lost Paradise, actually IT, visible for a moment yonder, far away, while one goes whirling in this manner on the illimitable wracking winds!-- Here finally, from a distant part of the War-Theatre, is another Note; which we will read while Friedrich is at Schieritz.
At no other place so properly; the very date of it, chief date (July 31st), being by accident synchronous with Schieritz:-- DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760). Duke Ferdinand has opened his difficult Campaign; and especially--just while that Siege of Dresden blazed and ended--has had three sharp Fights, which were then very loud in the Gazettes, along with it.
Three once famous Actions; which unexpectedly had little or no result, and are very much forgotten now.
So that bare enumeration of them is nearly all we are permitted here.
Pitt has furnished 7,000 new English, this Campaign,--there are now 20,000 English in all, and a Duke Ferdinand raised to 70,000 men.
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