The duke of Brunswick, on whom rested every hope of the coalition, was at Berlin, giving his last advice to the king of Prussia, and receiving his final orders.

Beschoffwerder, the general and confidant of the king of Prussia, arrived at Vienna to concert with the emperor the point and time of attack.

On his arrival the prince de Kaunitz hastily informed him of the sudden illness of the emperor.

The 27th Leopold was in perfect health, and received the Turkish envoy; on the 28th he was in the agonies of death.

His stomach swelled, and convulsive vomitings put him to intense torture.