REICH-HENNERSDORF, 9th JUNE. "My congratulations on the excellent
success you have had [out in Frankenland yonder]! Your prisoners,
we hear, are 3,000; the desertion and confusion in the Reichs Army
are affirmed to be enormous:--I give those Reichs fellows two good
months [scarcely took so long] to be in a condition to show face
again. As for ourselves, I can send you nothing but
contemptibilities. We have never yet had the beatific vision of Him
with the Hat and Consecrated Sword [Papal Daun, that is];
they amuse us with the Sieur Loudon instead;--who, three days ago
[7th July, two days] did us the honor of a visit, at the Gallows of
Liebau. He was conducted out again, with all the politeness
imaginable, on to near Schatzlar," well over the Bohemian Border;
"where we flung a score of cannon volleys into the"--into the
"DERRIERE of him, and everybody returned home." [In SCHONING, ii.
65: "9th June, 1759."]

Perhaps the only points now noticeable in this tedious Landshut
interim, are Two, hardly noticed then at all by an expectant world.
The first is: That in the King's little inroad down to Trautenau,
just mentioned, four cannon drawn by horses were part of the King's
fighting gear,--the first appearance of Horse Artillery in the
world. "A very great invention," says the military mind: "guns and
carriages are light, and made of the best material for strength;
the gunners all mounted as postilions to them. Can scour along,
over hill and dale, wherever horse can; and burst out, on the
sudden, where nobody was expecting artillery. Devised in 1758;
ready this Year, four light six-pounders; tried first in the King's
raid down to Trautenau [June 29th-30th]. Only four pieces as yet.
But these did so well, there were yearly more. Imitated by the