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May, 1776 AD (search for this): chapter 4
a letter in which he allowed the interest of his kingdom to suffer from personal pique, or passion, or dynastic influences. His cares are for the country which he rather serves than rules. He sees and exactly measures its weakness as well as its strength; he cares for every one of its disconnected parts, and gathers them all under his wings. But he connects his policy with the movement of the world towards light and reason, the amelioration of domestic and international law. When in May, 1776, the Prussian minister in 1776. London offered to submit a plan for a direct commerce with America, so as to open a sale for Silesian cloths, and at the same time to procure American products at the cheapest rate, Maltzan to Frederic, 21 May, 1776. Frederic answered: The plan appears to me very problematical. Without a fleet, how could I cause such a commerce to be respected? Frederic to Maltzan, 3 June, 1776. I shall never be able to form a navy strong enough to protect it. Fre
January 16th, 1778 AD (search for this): chapter 4
nspach and Hesse to pass through his dominions. The prohibition, which was made as publicly as possible, and just as the news arrived of the surrender of Burgoyne, resounded throughout Europe; and he announced to the Americans that it was given to testify his goodwill for them. Schulenburg to Wm. Lee, 3 Feb., 1778. Every facility was afforded to the Chap. III.} 1777. American commissioners to purchase and ship arms from Prussia. Before the end of 1777 he promised not to be the last to recognise the independence of the United States; Schulenburg to Arthur Lee, 18 Dec., 1777. and in January, 1778, his minis- 1778. Jan. ter, Schulenburg, wrote officially to one of their commissioners in Paris: The king desires that your generous efforts may be crowned with complete success. He will not hesitate to recognise your independence, when France, which is more directly interested in the event of this contest, shall have given the example. Schulenburg to Arthur Lee, 16 Jan., 1778.
November 27th, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 4
that will be established there, or the degree of influence of the party of Bute in the mother country. But every patriotic Englishman must deplore the turn which the affairs of his country are taking under the present administration, and the odious perspective which it opens before him. Frederic to Maltzan, 13 Nov., 1775. The court carries its point against all principles Chap. III.} 1775. of true patriotism, and treads under foot the rules of sound policy. Frederic to Maltzan, 27 Nov., 1775. If I had a voice in the British cabinet, I should take advantage of the good disposition of the colonies to reconcile myself with them. Ibid., 30 Nov., 1775. In order to interest the nation in this war, the British court will, it is true, offer conditions of reconciliation; but it will make them so burdensome that the colonies will never be able to accept them. Ibid., 7 Dec., 1775. The issue of this contest cannot fail to make an epoch in British annals. Frederic to Maltzan, 80
September 28th, 1776 AD (search for this): chapter 4
4 March, 3 April, 11 June, 20 June, 1 July, 23 April, 1776. France, said he, on the day on which congress in committee decided for independence, France resembles a sick man who is just rising from a grievous malady and yet assumes the air of robust health. Frederic to Sandoz Rollin, 1 July, 1776. In the ruinous condition of its finances, a war would certainly bring bankruptcy in its train. Frederic to Maltzan, 8 April, 1776. Compare Frankenstein and Herzberg ad mandatum to Goltz, 28 Sept., 1776. Meantime the liberties of Germany, not less than Chap. III.} 1776. those of the United States, were endangered; and the political question of the day assumed the largest proportions. In the event of the death of the childless elector of Bavaria, Joseph of Austria was prepared, under the false pretext of a right of inheritance, to appropriate a large part of that electorate. To prevent so fatal a measure, the king of Prussia, in the last months of 1776, began to draw near to Franc
November 30th, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ch the affairs of his country are taking under the present administration, and the odious perspective which it opens before him. Frederic to Maltzan, 13 Nov., 1775. The court carries its point against all principles Chap. III.} 1775. of true patriotism, and treads under foot the rules of sound policy. Frederic to Maltzan, 27 Nov., 1775. If I had a voice in the British cabinet, I should take advantage of the good disposition of the colonies to reconcile myself with them. Ibid., 30 Nov., 1775. In order to interest the nation in this war, the British court will, it is true, offer conditions of reconciliation; but it will make them so burdensome that the colonies will never be able to accept them. Ibid., 7 Dec., 1775. The issue of this contest cannot fail to make an epoch in British annals. Frederic to Maltzan, 80 Nov., 1775. The great question is always whether the colonies will not find means to separate entirely from the mother country and form a free republic. Th
August 4th, 1777 AD (search for this): chapter 4
what the like guarantee has cost me to have any desire to renew it. Frederic to Maltzan, 7 April, 1777. Although I was then its ally, its conduct towards me was that of a thorough enemy. Never in past ages, he continued, some weeks later, has the situation of England been so critical. The nation itself seems to me to have degenerated. Once so proud and so jealous of its liberty, it abandons the ship of state to the caprice of its ministry, which is without men of talent. Ibid., 4 Aug., 1777. A reconciliation would be the wisest policy for England; and, because Chap. III.} 1777. it would be the wisest policy, it will not be adopted. Frederic to Maltzan, 13 Oct., 1777. England will make the sacrifice of thirty-six million crowns for one campaign. Ibid., 28 Aug., 1777. True, her ministry can find thirty-six millions more easily than I a single florin. Ibid., 29 Sept., 1777. But the largest sums will not be sufficient to procure the sailors and recruits she needs;
April 8th, 1776 AD (search for this): chapter 4
without misgivings as to the effect on themselves. Frederic to Goltz, 4 March, 3 April, 11 June, 20 June, 1 July, 23 April, 1776. France, said he, on the day on which congress in committee decided for independence, France resembles a sick man who is just rising from a grievous malady and yet assumes the air of robust health. Frederic to Sandoz Rollin, 1 July, 1776. In the ruinous condition of its finances, a war would certainly bring bankruptcy in its train. Frederic to Maltzan, 8 April, 1776. Compare Frankenstein and Herzberg ad mandatum to Goltz, 28 Sept., 1776. Meantime the liberties of Germany, not less than Chap. III.} 1776. those of the United States, were endangered; and the political question of the day assumed the largest proportions. In the event of the death of the childless elector of Bavaria, Joseph of Austria was prepared, under the false pretext of a right of inheritance, to appropriate a large part of that electorate. To prevent so fatal a measure, the
February 21st, 1785 AD (search for this): chapter 4
e Chap. III.} wise Providence, according to my idea of it, cannot approve, cannot support, perjury and the suppression of all rights of citizens and of states. Of this principle the example of America is the eloquent proof. England met with her deserts. It was necessary that her pride should be bowed, and that oppressed innocence should carry off the victory. Time cannot outlaw the rights of mankind. Extract of a letter of Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen, an den Herzog zu Weimar, Gotha, 21 Feb., 1785. Communicated to me by Dr. Burkhardt, in charge of the archives at Weimar. A part of the letter has been already printed in Ranke's Die deutschen Machte, i. 218. The friend to whom these words were addressed was the brave, warm-hearted Charles Augustus of Saxe-Weimar, who, in 1776, being then of only nineteen years, refused a request for leave to open recruiting offices at Ilmenau and Jena for the English service, Wangenheim to the duke, 22 May, 1776. but consented to the delive
August 14th, 1775 AD (search for this): chapter 4
essity to seek the alliance of England. Frederic to Maltzan, 27 Feb., 1775. He was astonished at the apathy and gloomy silence of the British nation on undertaking a war alike absurd and fraught with hazard. Ibid., 17 July, 1775. The treatment of the colonies, he wrote in September, appears to me to be the first step towards despotism. If in this the king should succeed, he will by and by attempt to impose his own will upon the mother country. Ibid., 11 Sept., 1775, and compare 14 Aug., 1775. In October, 1775, the British minister at Berlin reported of the Prussian king: His ill state of health threatens him with a speedy dissolution. Harris to Suffolk, 7 and 17 Oct., and 21 Nov., 1775. Harris to De la Val, at Copenhagen, 23 Oct., 1775, in Malmesbury Papers, i. 116-118. It was while face to face with death that Frederic wrote of the August proclamation of George the Third: It seems to me very hard to proclaim as rebels free subjects who only defend their privileges again
August 31st, 1777 AD (search for this): chapter 4
te with his own hand: No; certainly we have no jealousy of the aggrandizement of France: we even put up prayers for her prosperity, provided her armies are not found near Wesel or Halberstadt. Frederic to Goltz, 28 July, 1777. You can assure M. de Maurepas, so he continued in August and Septemher, that I have no connection whatever with Eng- Chap. III.} 1777. land, nor do I grudge to France any advantages she may gain by the war with the colonies. Frederic to Goltz, from Neudorf, 31 Aug., 1777. Her first interest requires the enfeeblement of Great Britain, and the way to this is to make it lose its colonies in America. The present opportunity is more favorable than ever before existed, and more favorable than is likely to recur in three centuries. Frederic to Goltz, 8 Sept., 1777. The independence of the colonies will be worth to France all which the war will cost. Frederic to Goltz, 11 Sept., 1777. As the only way to bridle the ambition of Austria, and to preserve
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