Protestant, Baron von Something, begged passionately for only
twelve hours of respite,--to lay the case before his Prussian
Majesty. Respite conceded, he and another chief Protestant had
posted off accordingly; and did the next morning (Friday, 16th),
short way from Crossen, meet his Majesty's carriage; who graciously
pulled up for a few instants, and listened to their story. "MEINE
HERREN, you are the first that ask a favor of me on Silesian
ground; it shall be done you!" said the King; and straightway
despatched, in polite style, his written request to Wallis,
engaging to make no military use whatever of said Church, "but to
attack by the other side, if attack were necessary." Thus his
Majesty saved the Church of Glogau; which of course was a popular
act. Getting to see this Church himself a few days hence, he said,
"Why, it must come down at any rate, and be rebuilt; so ugly
a thing!"

Wallis is making strenuous preparation; forces the inhabitants,
even the upper kinds of them, to labor day and night by relays, in
his rampartings, palisadings; is for burning all the adjacent
Villages,--and would have done it, had not the peasants themselves
turned out in a dangerous state of mind. He has got together about
1,000 men. His powder, they say, is fifty years old; but he has
eatable provender from Breslau, and means to hold out to the
utmost. Readers must admit that the Austrian military, Graf von
Wallis to begin with,-- still more, General Browne, who is a
younger man and has now the head charge,--behave well in their
present forsaken condition. Wallis (Graf FRANZ WENZEL this one, not
to be confounded with an older Wallis heard of in the late Turk
War) is of Scotch descent,--as all these Wallises are; "came to
Austria long generations ago; REICHSGRAFS since 1612:"--Browne is