"The Herr Kriegsrath Coper was present, and noted all the Orders to
he expedited." [Preuss, ii. 442; Rodenbeck, ii. 217, 218: in regard
to D'Alembert, see OEuvres de Frederic,
xxiv. 190.]

These snatches of notice at first-hand, and what the reader's fancy
may make of these, are all we can bestow on this Section of
Friedrich's Labors; which is naturally more interesting to Prussian
readers than to English. He has himself given lucid and eloquent
account of it,--Two ample Chapters, "DES FINANCES;"
"DU MILITAIRE," [ OEuvres de Frederic, vii.
73-90, 91-109.]--altogether pleasant reading, should there still be
curiosity upon it. There is something of flowingly eloquent in
Friedrich's account of this Battle waged against the inanimate
Chaos; something of exultant and triumphant, not noticeable of him
in regard to his other Victories. On the Leuthens, Rossbachs, he is
always cold as water, and nobody could gather that he had the least
pleasure in recording them. Not so here. And indeed here he is as
beautiful as anywhere; and the reader, as a general son of Adam,--
proud to see human intellect and heroism slaying that kind of
lions, and doing what in certain sad epochs is unanimously voted to
be impossible and unattemptable,--exults along with him;
and perhaps whispers to his own poor heart, nearly choked by the
immeasurable imbroglio of Blue-books and Parliamentary Eloquences
which for the present encumber Heaven and Earth, "MELIORA SPERO."
To Mirabeau, the following details, from first-hand, but already of
twenty-three years distance, were not known, [Appeared first in
Tome v. of "OEuvres Posthumes de Frederic II." italic> (are in Tome vi. of Preuss's Edition of OEUVRES), "Berlin,