Journal of Horace St. Paul
1757: Waiting on Events

August 13, 1757

Translated and Edited With Additional Materials By Neil Cogswell


A Saxon officer, who had taken service with the King of Prussia, deserted after the action that Colonel Loudon had near Giesshubel with several Prussian battalions. Although this officer was amongst those who had come to the aid of others, he lost all his baggage. The regiment in which he had served had formerly been styled Oldenburg, but it had now been incorporated into that of Forcade. As a result of that re-organization, the regiment had twice the establishment of officers.

The disputes, which arose between the officers over who was to command, caused much disorder in the service.

News from Dresden says that, when he was there, the King of Prussia suffered an attack that appears to have been a kind of consumption. The same source relates how, a detachment of Austrian hussars having approached the Black Gate during the night, the alarm in the town had been so great that the entire garrison had taken up arms; more that 130 Prussians profited from the resulting disorder to desert.

Despite all the cares and pains taken by Freiherr Netolitzky, Commissary-General of the Army, to procure the necessary subsistence for the army, he sees with regret that his orders have been badly executed. Thus, he has taken the resolution to go in person to Jung-Bunzlau, there to make new arrangements. As a first step, he has started to commandeer 5,000 more vehicles in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

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