... "SEPTEMBER 7th, Trenck with his Tolpatcheries had appeared at
Cham,--a fine trading Town on the hither or neutral side of the
mountains [not in Bohmen, but in Ober-Pfalz, old Kur-Pfalz's
country, whom the Austrians hate];--and summoning and assaulting
Cham, over the throat of all law, had by fire and by massacre
annihilated the same. [Adelung, iii A, 258; Guerre de
Boheme; &c.] Fact horrible, nearly incredible;
but true. The noise of which is now loud everywhere. Less lovely
individual than this Trenck [Pandour Trenck, Cousin of the Prussian
one,] there was not, since the days of Attila and Genghis, in any
War. Blusters abominably, too; has written [save the mark!] an
'AUTOBIOGRAPHY,'--having happily afterwards, in Prison and even in
Bedlam, time for such a Work;--which is stuffed with sanguinary
lies and exaggerations: unbeautifulest of human souls. Has a face
the color of indigo, too;--got it, plundering in an Apothecary's
[in this same country, if I recollect]: 'ACH GOTT, your Grace,
nothing of money here!' said the poor Apothecary, accompanying
Colonel Trenck with a lighted candle over house and shop.
Trenck, noticing one likely thing, snatched the candle, held it
nearer:--likely thing proved gunpowder; and Trenck, till Doomsday,
continues deep blue. [ Guerre de Boheme. ]
Soul more worthy of damnation I have seldom known."

"SEPTEMBER 19th (five days after dropping Seckendorf), Saxe
actually gets joined with Maillebois;--not quite at Amberg, but at
Vohenstrauss, in that same Sulzbach Country, a forty miles to
eastward, or Prag-ward, of Amberg. Maillebois and he conjoined are
between 50 and 60,000. They are got now to the Bohemian Boundary,
edge of the Bohemian Forest (big BOHMISCHE WALD, Mountainous woody