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ich menaces the British constitution. Frederic to Maltzan, 25 Dec., 1777. At the same time Frederic expressed more freely his sympathy with the United States. The port of Embden could not receive their cruisers, for the want of a fleet or a fort to defend them from insult; but he offered them an asylum in the Baltic at Dantzic. He attempted, though in vain, to dissuade the prince of Anspach from furnishing troops to England; and he forbade the subsidiary troops both from Anspach 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 in