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If now Gustavus should fail in his attack upon Tilly, the Elector might again open his fortresses to the Imperialists, and the king, with an enemy both in front and rear, would be irrecoverably lost. In order to prevent this contingency, he demanded that the Elector should allow him to hold the fortresses of Custrin and Spandau, till the siege of Magdeburg should be raised.
The Swedes had pursued the Imperialists into Brandenburg; and only the Elector's refusal to open to him the fortress of Custrin for his march, obliged the king to lay aside his design of besieging Frankfort on the Oder. He therefore returned to complete the conquest of Pomerania, by the capture of Demmin and Colberg.
She was received by Weingarten in the most friendly manner, who, by his questions, drew from her the whole secret, and our intended plan of flight, aided by the two grenadiers, and also that she had a letter for my sister, which she must carry to Hammer, near Custrin.
Wittenberg, whose inhabitants had been shamefully abused by the French under Lapoype, Custrin, Glogau, Wesel, Erfurt, fell in the beginning of 1814; Magdeburg and Bremen, after the conclusion of the war. The Rhenish confederation was dissolved, each of the princes securing his hereditary possessions by a timely secession.
He is just home from Vienna, getting towards his own domicile from Berlin, from Custrin, and has seen the Prince. No. 1. "I regret much to have missed the pleasure of seeing your Excellency again before I left Berlin. He had arrived there a moment before me." And who is Madam Schoning, lady of Kammin here? Patience, reader. "I found him much grown; an air of health and gayety about him.
The Chaplain's Reports, Friedrich Wilhelm's grimly mollified Responses on the same: they are written, and in confused form have been printed; but shall be spared the English reader. And Grumkow has been out at Custrin, preaching to the same purport from other texts: Grumkow, with the thought ever present to him, "What if Friedrich Wilhelm should die?" is naturally an eloquent preacher.
Frederick was, as it were, retired to a house of his own and a court of his own court very strictly regulated at Cüstrin; not yet a soldier of the Prussian army, but hoping only to become so again; while he studied the domain sciences, more particularly the rigidly economical principles of state finance as practised by his father. The tragedy has taught him a lesson, and he has more to learn.
The Prussian monarch, therefore, determined to support him with all possible expedition. In a few days after the battle he began his march from Custrin, with a reinforcement of twenty-four battalions and great part of his cavalry, and pursued his route with such unwearied diligence, that by the fifth day of September lie reached Torgau, and on the eleventh joined his brother.
He fell prisoner in their cause, at Zorndorf, last Autumn; was stuck, like all the others, Soltikoff himself among them, into the vaulted parts of Custrin Garrison: 'I am sorry I have no Siberia for you, said Friedrich, looking, not in a benign way, on the captive Dignitaries, that hot afternoon; 'go to Custrin, and see what you have provided for yourselves! Which they had to do; nothing, for certain days, but cellarage to lodge in; King inexorable, deaf to remonstrance.
Custrin, an arsenal and garrison, begirt with two rivers, and with awful bulwarks, and bastions cased in stone, "perhaps too high," say the learned, is likely to be impregnable to Russian engineering on those terms. Here, with brevity, is the catastrophe of Custrin. TUESDAY, 15th AUGUST, 1758. The pickeering and manoeuvring of Stoffeln shall not detain us.
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