distinct,--we give in the King's own words:
5. "For such essential services as those to which I bind myself by
the above very onerous conditions, I naturally require a
proportionate recompense; some suitable assurance, as indemnity for
all the dangers I risk, and for the part (ROLE) I am ready to play:
in short, I require hereby the entire and complete cession of all
Silesia, as reward for my labors and dangers which I take upon
myself in this course now to be entered upon for the preservation
and renown of the House of Austria;"--Silesia all and whole; and we
say nothing of our "rights" to it; politely evasive to her
Hungarian Majesty, though in substance we are so fatally distinct.
[Preuss, Thronbesteigung, p. 451;
"from Olenschlager, Geschichte des Interegni
[Frankfurt, 1746], i. 134."]

These were Friedrich's Proposals; written down with his own hand at
Reinsberg, five or six weeks ago (November 17th is the date of it);
in what mood, and how wrought upon by Schwerin and Podewils, we saw
above. Gotter has fulfilled his instructions in regard to this
important little Document; and now the effect of it is--?
Gotter can report no good effect whatever. "Be cautious," Friedrich
instructs him farther; "modify that Fifth Proposal; I will take
less than the whole, 'if attention is paid to my just claims on
Schlesien.'" To that effect writes Friedrich once or twice. But it
is to no purpose; nor can Gotter, with all his industry, report
other than worse and worse. Nay, he reports before long, not
refusal only, but refusal with mockery: "How strange that his
Prussian Majesty, whose official post in Germany, as Kur-
Brandenburg and Kaiser's Chamberlain, has been to present ewer and
towel to the House of Austria, should now set up for prescribing