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at a little diftance. Having a letter of recom- 

 mendation from the Duke Frederic, for General 

 (then Colonel) Mack, 1 neceflarily enquired for 

 him; and on being told that indifpolition had 

 forced him to go to a fhort diflance in the rear, 

 where he was laying upon fome ftraw, I inti- 

 mated a defire tc»go to him; and an officer of the 

 Prince's fuite offered his fervices to conduct 



,.me. I found this eminently diftinguijfhed officer 

 extremely ill, neverthelefs he quitted his ftraw, 

 and remounting his horfe, accompanied me back 



. to Saxe Coburg. After a fhort converfation 

 with his Highnefs, partly on the fubjcd of the 

 letter, which 1 had juft delivered to Colonel 

 Mack, the Colonel had the goodnefs to propofe 

 to defcribe to me the order of battle. We rode 

 towards a height occupied by Imperial troops, 

 from whence I could diflindlly fee the heads of 

 the enemies columns, and the various pofts they 



^ held. I vifited different parts of the pofition of 

 the Auftrians, and was filled with admiration, 

 at the determined countenance which thathanii- 

 ful of men, though almoft exhaufted by cxcef- 

 live fatigue, and labouring under every incon- 

 venience to which a foldicr can be ^pofed, 

 fnewed to an enemy, each of whofe columns 

 was nearly equal to their whole force, and whofe 

 front feemed covered with well ferved artillery. 

 The battle about this time, (the noon of the 



1 8th 



