BERESFORD’S TRANSLATION OF THE LIFE OF GENERAL DE ZIETEN. 
ot Prague. - Zieten had the command 
of the corps of reserve; the Austrians 
had actually broken the infantry, and 
put the cavalry to flight, when this able 
general, who anticipated the disaster 
from some error which he had detected 
in the plan, rallied the fugitives, and 
by his spirit and presence of mind 
reatly contributed to the victory. The 
king of Prussia, in his account of this 
battle, acknowledges that he lost 18,000 
men, and estimates the loss of the Aus- 
trians at 24,000! Marshal Schwerin’s 
death, to use his own expression, wi- 
thered the laurels of his victory; at the 
of eighty-two this warrior rushed 
with the rallying cavalry, and was 
ierced with several bullets. 
_ After the battle of Prague, Zieten 
ined the duke of Beverne, in order to 
prevent Marshal Daun from marching 
to the relief of the prince of Lorrain, 
who had thrown himself into Prague 
with 40,000 of the routed army; with 
aninferior force they kept the marshal 
_ at bay. The face of affairs, however, 
_ soon changed in consequence of the un~ 
_ accountable obstinacy of the king of 
_ Prussia, who discredited the~ uniform 
_ and reiterated intelligence of his gene- 
tals as to the situation of the enemy; 
and who was brought to unexpected 
action before Colin, where he was com- 
_ pletely beaten. On this day general 
ieten performed prodigies of valour, 
__ and by his address and foresight fre- 
_ quently frustrated some particular ma- 
_ neeuvres of the enemy. The line was 
broken in’ so many points, that prince 
_ Maurice and general Zieten thought it 
proper to fill up the chasm with their 
own squadrons; the fire of a formidable 
_ and well-served battery, however, was 
so destructive that it was necessary to 
_ getridof it. Prince Maurice engaged 
jieven to put himself at the head of four 
regiments of heavy horse, and attempt 
to carry it: this daring and most despe- 
Tate attempt was twice made, but in the 
second onset Zieten was struck with a 
a oe an and fainted on his horse. 
_ The troops, who a moment before had 
braved the mouths of the cannon, were 
now panic-struck at the loss of their 
eneral, and fled. The ball grazed his 
ead, and carried away his cap; a se- 
cond discharge of grape-shot killed his 
horse, and Zieten owed his life to the 
activity of M. de Berge, a cornet in 
another regiment, who placed him on 
his own horse, and conducted him to a 
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place of safety. The general recovered, 
and his deliverer was an object of envy 
throughout the army. 
At the retreat of the Duke of Beverne, 
General Zieten covered the rear, and 
after the disastrous battle of Breslaw, 
and the capture of the duke, completely 
saved the wreck of the army, by oppos- 
ing the precipitate and pusillaninous 
retreat which his superior officers had 
commanded. He received the thanks of 
Frederick, and those officers, Generals 
Lestaitz, Kiow, and Katte, were put 
under arrest, while Zieten was appointed 
commander in chief to conduct the 
shattered army. 
At Leuthen the carnage again was 
dreadful: victory decided in favour of 
Prussia; the Austrians were routed, and 
Zieten executed the fatiguing and pe- 
rilous task of driving them before him 
for fifteen successive days, and recover- 
ing the complete possession of Silesia! 
Moravia was the seat of the campaign 
in 1758, and here it was that General 
_Laudohn had the honour of beating Ge- 
neral Zieten, near Dohmstadtel. In this 
engagement, of nine hundred new re- 
cruits, all in the flower of their age and 
vigor of life, who were enlisted for the 
purpose of completing the regiment of 
Prince Ferdinand, not one hundred sur- 
vived the affray ; the rest, together with 
the gallant officer who commanded 
them, were left dead on the spot! This 
defeat brought on the loss of a convoy, 
consisting of between two and three 
thousand waggons loaded with provi- 
sions, military stores, and arms for the 
king’s camp, and obliged him to raise 
the seige of Olmutz. It is thought that 
by his expedition into Moravia, and his 
ill-advised siege of Olmutz, Frederick 
lost the advantages which he might have 
derived from his victory of Leuthen ; for 
the Austrian army, which was completely 
disorganized in the preceding winter, 
now availed itself of the time which the 
king lost before Olmutz to recover its 
complemgnt and vigor. 
According to the account before us, 
General Zieten was the cause that the 
disaster at Hochkirchen, bad as it was, 
was not still worse. ‘The security into 
which Frederick was luiled, it seems was 
effected by one of his own spies who had 
been detected by General Daun, and 
compelled by him to continue his reports 
to the Prussians, and lead them astray. 
Frederick would not believe the reports 
of his generals that a suspicious move- 
