The like message had already gone to Brieg, some days before, and the Blockading Body, a good few thousand strong, quitted Brieg, as we saw, and effected their junction with him.

All day, this Sunday, 9th, it still snows and blows; you cannot see a yard before you.

No hope now of Holstein-Beck.

Not the least news from any quarter; Ohlau uncertain, too likely the wrong way: What is to be done?
We are cut off from our Magazines, have only provision for one other day.

"Had this weather lasted," says an Austrian reporter of these things, "his Majesty would have passed his time very ill." [_Feldzuge der Preussen_ (the complete Title is, _Sammlung ungedruckter Nachrichten so die Geschichte der Feldzuge der Preussen von 1740 bis 1779 erlautern,_ or in English words, _Collection of unprinted Narratives which elucidate the Prussian Campaigns from 1740 to 1779:_ 5 vols.