Carlyle's complete works . K:._ /-/-.:r-- J^ ^ / // Twx V. Chap. XII. SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS. 153 lUtli Oct. 1762. is uothing to be made of those Turks. — We are now inthe press of our crisis as to Schweidnitz. The Siege advancesbeautifully : but Beck is come hereabouts, Lacy masked be-hind him ; and I cannot yet tell you [not till Reichenbachand the 16th] whether the Enemy intends some big adven-ture for disengaging Schweidnitz, or will content himselfwith disturbing and annoying us. Peterswaldau, 9th Sejytember. Springs, water-threads com-ing into our mines delay us a little : by the
Carlyle's complete works . K:._ /-/-.:r-- J^ ^ / // Twx V. Chap. XII. SEVENTH CAMPAIGN ENDS. 153 lUtli Oct. 1762. is uothing to be made of those Turks. — We are now inthe press of our crisis as to Schweidnitz. The Siege advancesbeautifully : but Beck is come hereabouts, Lacy masked be-hind him ; and I cannot yet tell you [not till Reichenbachand the 16th] whether the Enemy intends some big adven-ture for disengaging Schweidnitz, or will content himselfwith disturbing and annoying us. Peterswaldau, 9th Sejytember. Springs, water-threads com-ing into our mines delay us a little : by the 12th [in 3 daystime, little thinking it would be 30 days!] I still hope todespatch you a courier with the news. All is over! YourNephew [Prince of Prussia] is out to-day assisting in a for-age ; he begins to kindle into fine action. We are nothingbut pygmies in comparison to him [in point of physicalstature]; imagine to yourself Prince Franz [of Brunswick;killed, poor fellow, at Hochkirch], only taller still: this isthe figure of him at present. Pcter
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