I have acted, and continue to act, according to that interior voice of conscience and of honor which directs all my steps: my conduct shall be, in every time, conformable to those principles.

After having sacrificed my youth to my Father, my ripe years to my Country, I think I have acquired the right to dispose of my old age.

I have told you, and I repeat it, Never shall my hand sign a humiliating Peace.

Finish this Campaign I certainly will, resolved to dare all, and to try the most desperate things either to succeed or to find a glorious end (FIN GLORIEUSE)." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xix.

202 ("Kemberg, 28th October, 1760," a week and a day before Torgau).] Friedrich had marched from Lubben, after three days, settling of affairs, OCTOBER 20th; arrived at Jessen, on the Elbe, within wind of Wittenberg, in two days more.