Hope, in good moments, says, "Hulsen will be able to hold out till then!" Fear answers, "No, he cannot, unless you get done here extremely soon!"-- The Russian Event, full of painful anxiety to Friedrich, was a new Siege of Colberg.

That is the sad fact; which, since the middle of August, has been becoming visibly certain.
SECOND SIEGE OF COLBERG, AUGUST 26th.

"Under siege again, that poor Place; and this time the Russians seem to have made a vow that take it they will.

Siege by land and by sea; land-troops direct from Petersburg, 15,000 in all (8,000 of them came by ship), with endless artillery; and near 40 Russian and Swedish ships-of-war, big and little, blackening the waters of poor Colberg.

August 26th [the day before Friedrich's writing as above], they have got all things adjusted,--the land-troops covered by redoubts to rearward, ships moored in their battering-places;--and begin such a bombardment and firing of red-hot balls upon Colberg as was rarely seen.