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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 11: (search)
ministry of that day looked upon the aid which he had received in the time of the elder Pitt as a very grave mistake. Report of Count Belgiojoso, and 8 Jan., 1781. Prussia should have been left to perish. Through his minister in France, Frederic sent word to Maurepas and Vergennes: All the pains which the king of England may take to make an alliance with me will be entirely thrown away. The interests of the state and my own views turn in another direction. Frederic to Maltzan, 22 Jan., 1779. Peace is as dear and precious to me as to the ministry of Versailles; but as nothing less is at stake than the liberty and constitutions of all the Germanic body, I, one of their principal bulwarks, should fail in duty as an elector if I were willing to acquiesce in the despotism of Austria. Rather than be guilty of such weakness, I should prefer eternal war to peace. Frederic to Goltz, 9 Feb., 1778. Now is the mo- Chap. XI.} 1778. ment, he warned his minister, to exert all your p