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“ BERESFORD’S TRANSLATION OF THE LIFE OF GENERAL DE ZIETEN. 
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of the army were composed of infantry, 
; two other of cavalry; the king led 
the first of the centre, and Zieten, at 
the head of his regiment, m marched in 
the van. Zieten passing through a forest 
_ which led to Hennersdorf, discovered that 
t village was occupied by three regi- 
nts of Saxon cavalry, and one “of 
! antry. The king’s column, with the 
vy artillery, had been misled into a 
ish, and could give no support. to 
ten, wirose resolution, however, was 
tantly taken. He sent an officer to 
, and saying that ie would be be- 
hand with the nemy, for that he 
ould attack them and keep them em- 
yed till his majesty should be able to 
sist him. Zicten found the garrison 
“motion, and the regiment of Saxe- 
Gotha ready to receive them with artil- 
he immediately charged them, 
was received with preat coolness 
d resolution. Extraordinary efforts 
@ necessary ; Zieten was successful, 
he whole regiment was cut to 
am. ihe regiment of Obyern. suf- 
red almost as much at that of Saxe- 
: each lost four field-pieces, all 
_ colours and ote vise five 
recom alee: Er Saatiche entered athe town 
id established his camp here, and pre- 
on ted the regiments of general de Zie- 
en and general de Ruesch each with 
vo of the kettle-drums, as an accom- 
iment to their military music. The 
cof the cavalry have not any; but 
ery time these regiments take the field, 
a eir kettle-drums are deposited with 
ceremony in the arsenal of Berlin. 
was accidentally wounded in this 
by the carelessness of one of his 
soldiers, and was disabled during 
> rémainder of the war. 
pe The king of Prussia’s account of this 
affair is moe altegether so favourable as 
ladame de. B! umerithal’s: he says that 
¢hussars, instead of improving their 
t success, were busied in plunder at 
fend of the village, (which was a 
y long onc,) and. gave the Saxons 
to form at the other. ‘Ihese'stood 
tir ground, aad probably might have 
ired with little loss, if F rédevick had. 
ot detached ten squadrons of cuirassiers 
ten battalions of grenadiers to their 
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‘The treaty of Dresden was signed 
Dec. 25, 1745, and the seven years’ war 
began 1756. ' Notwithstanding this long 
period of inaction, the narrativerot Ma- 
dame de Blumenthal flows’ in an uns 
broken: current. To Us, indeed, who 
take but little delight in the’bustle and 
bloodshed of a battle, this part of her 
biography is as interesting as any other. 
It exhibits the picture of. a valiant war- 
rior in the midst of his family, caressing 
his children, and enjoying the society of 
an amiable, prudent, and affectionate 
wife. Zieten, vetired to his country seat, 
now determined to reaz, a suitable’ man- 
sion for his. residence + like every one 
who engages in it, ses hada passion for 
building, and with: that’ carelessness 
about money concerns, which ever dis- 
tinguished him; he laid the foundation 
of, a mansion, to complete which his - 
resources were very imsuficient. Fre- 
derick made him a present of the timber 
and mortar; but Zieten, with an obsti- 
nate perseverance, /from which his an- 
xious wife could not divert him, bor- 
rowed loan upon lean, regardless of 
futurity. 
In this period of his retirement, too, 
we see the mortifying picture of a high- 
minded man degraded in the eyes of an 
ungrateful sovereign, and bearing in 
manly silence his coid neglect aiid sule 
len alienation. ‘Towards the conclusion 
of the war, Vrederick had shewn some 
poiuted preferences to general de Win- 
terficld, and Zieten had, in a letter, xe- 
monstrated’ with his majesty on some 
occasion, wherein he conceived his own 
ser res undervalued. 
Vinterfield, perhaps, was made ac- 
quainted sulin the contents of this letter; 
at any rate, from this time he became 
the concealed, but most formidable rival 
and persevering enemy that Zieten ever 
had. «He tock every opportunity ‘to 
insinuate that’ Zietén’s milit: ct talents 
were very inferior; that he owed his fame 
to the -g00d fortuire of som: ash dnd 
daagerous enterprises 3 and that in the 
calm of peace he had neglected to pre- 
serve the discipline of his hnssars, who 
were extremely inferior to those of the 
Austrians, although the latter, unpre- 
pared for his mad) ass aults, had occasi- 
onally been confounded und defeated. 
Zieten, in the full consciousness of his 
past services, and of his present unabated 
zeal for the strict discipline and superi- 
ority A his troops, scorned to bow’ the 
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