from equal, and rather in favor of the Austrian side: Austrians
counted in killed, wounded, and missing, 4410 men; Prussians,
4613; ¹⁴ but the Prussians bivouacked on the ground, or quar-
tered in these Villages, with victory to crown them, and the
thought that their hard day's-work had been well done. Besides
Margraf Friedrich, Volunteer from Holland, there lay among the
slain Colonel Count von Finckenstein (Old Tutor's Son), King's
friend from boyhood, and much loved. He was of the six whom
we saw consulting at the door at Reinsberg during a certain
ague-fit, and he now rests silent here, while the matter has only
come thus far.

Such was Mollwitz, the first Battle for Silesia, which had to
cost many Battles first and last. Silesia will be gained, we can
expect, by fighting of this kind in an honest cause. But here is
something already gained, which is considerable, and about which
there is no doubt. A new Military Power, it would appear, has
come upon the scene; the Gazetteer-and-Diplomatic world will
have to make itself familiar with a name not much heard of
hitherto among the Nations. "A Nation which can fight,"
think the Gazetteers; "fight almost as the very Swedes did;
and is led on by its King, too, who may prove, in his way, a very
Charles XII., or small Macedonia's Madman, for aught one
knows?" in which latter branch of their prognostic the Gazet-
teers were much out.

The Fame of this Battle, which is now so sunk out of mem-
ory, was great in Europe, and struck, like a huge war-gong, with
long resonance, through the general ear. M. de Voltaire had run
across to Lille in those Spring days: there is a good Troop of
Players in Lille; a Niece, Madame Denis, wife of some Military
Commissariat Denis, important in those parts, can lodge the di-
vine Émilie and me; and one could at last see Mahomet, after
five years of struggling, get upon the boards, if not yet in Paris
by a great way, yet in Lille, which is something. Mahomet is
getting upon the boards on those terms, and has proceeded, not
amiss, through an Act or two, when a Note from the King of

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