Swedes, by French bribery at Stockholm: these are the Partitioning
Powers;--and their shares (let us spare one line for their shares)
are as follows.

The Swedes are to have Pommern in whole; Polish-Saxon Majesty gets
Magdeburg, Halle, and opulent slices thereabouts; Austria's share,
we need not say, is that jewel of a Silesia. Czarish Majesty, on
the extreme East, takes Preussen, Konigsberg-Memel Country in
whole; adds Preussen to her as yet too narrow Territories.
Wesel-Cleve Country, from the other or Western extremity, France
will take that clipping, and make much of it. These are quite
serious business-engagements, engrossed on careful parchment, that
Spring, 1757, and I suppose not yet boiled down into glue, but
still to be found in dusty corners, with the tape much faded.
The high heads, making preparation on the due scale, think them not
only executable, but indubitable, and almost as good as done.
Push home upon him, as united Posse Comitatus of Mankind; in a
sacred cause of Polish Majesty and Public Justice, how can one
malefactor resist? "AH, MA TRES-CHERE" and "Oh, my dearest Princess
and Cousin," what a chance has turned up!

It is computed that there are arrayed against this one King, under
their respective Kings, Empress-Queens, Swedish Senates, Catins and
Pompadours, populations to the amount of above 100 millions,--in
after stages, I remember to have seen "150 millions" loosely given
as the exaggerated cipher. Of armed soldiers actually in the field
against him (against Hanover and him), in 1757, there are, by
strict count, 430,000. Friedrich's own Dominions at this time
contain about Five Millions of Population; of Revenue somewhat less
than Two Millions sterling. New taxes he cannot legally, and will