STATE 
Prossian states, have concluded that 
at last the very nerves of the body 
of the Prussian monarchy would 
become weakened, and the con- 
tinvation of a foreign and distant 
war must at last become entirely 
impossible. 
His majesty has often commu- 
nicated these circumstances for the 
information of his high colleagues, 
the members of the Germanic 
Jeague, and his co-states of the 
German empire. This was parti- 
cularly done in the beginning of 
last year, when his majesty was 
obliged openly. to declare to the 
German empire, that it was be- 
come entirely impossible for him 
singly, and without assistance, to 
continue to bear the heavy bur- 
then of this war; and that if the 
empire would not undertake to 
supply his troops with every thing 
necessary, he would find himself 
forced to withdraw his troops from 
the campaign, and to abandon the 
empire to its fate’ 
mands, in this respect, were every 
where received with coolness, dis- 
approbation, and even contempt. 
This ill success of the just and well. 
founded claims ofhis majesty tend- 
ed to disgust his liberal mind, and 
he began to meditate on the means 
of extricating his dominions from 
the dangerous situation in which 
they were involved. 
At that period proposals of subsi- 
dies were fortunately made ta his 
majesty from the court of Great 
Britain, which satisfied the claims 
of his majesty, and which furnished 
him with the means of continuing 
the war. His partaking in this 
war hitherto had always been the 
disinterested result of a true atten. 
tion to all his connexions, and 
wnion with the other states of Ger. 
But his just de. © 
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many, and particularly of his zeal 
to oppose the destruction that was 
likely to be spread by the fa€tion 
which at that time was raging in 
France, and to counteraét the hor- 
rors which the latter carried to the 
utmost pitch; evidently proving his 
majesty to have ated merely ,from 
a pure patriotic attachment to his 
mother-country of Germany, and 
from a profound sensibility, which 
induced him to endeavour to 
strengthen its shaken foundation, 
and with all his energy to recover 
its declining preponderance. His 
majesty then embraced the propo. 
sitions of Great Britain, and the 
distressed empire continued .to en- 
joy the protection of the Prussian 
arms. 
The subsidies, however, were but 
a very limited relief to the efforts 
of his majesty in the continuance 
of the war; they did not continue 
long enough; at last they disconti. 
nued entirely, and the whole bur- 
den of the war fell again upon his 
majesty alone, and upon his means 
of carrying it on. 
Had his majesty at that time 
abandoned the empire, according 
to his previous declarations, to its 
own teeble defensive force, its 
fatal destiny would soon have been 
decided, particularly at that period 
when no dawn of peace had yet 
made its appearance; when every 
where on the German frontiers, and 
in the advanced countries of Ger- 
many, nothing but misfortune was 
raging ; when every where a sor- 
rowful conjecture preditted the fate 
undergone by all the states of the 
empire beyond the Rhine, and that 
the greatest part of unprotected 
Germany would become subject to 
the same fate with the Imperial 
Netherlands, uotwithstanding their 
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