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MEMOIRS 
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 
THE BKOME-WALTON FAMILY. 
BY 
MAJOR AND QUAKTERMASTBR R. H. MURDOCH, R.A. 
(Assistant-Superintendent of Records ). 
(Contimied from No. 9, Vol. XX., p. 486). 
Chapter IY. 
First American War. 
tam in mari quam in terra. Marcus Graecus, cir 1000. 
. . . per Mare, per Terr am. Royal Warrant, 1827. 
“ The Third Silesian War —since called Seven Years’ War, that prov¬ 
ing to be the length of it——is now near. Breaks out, has to break out, 
August 1756. The heaviest and direst struggle Friedrich ever had : 
the greatest of all his Prowesses, Achievements, and Endurances in 
this world.” * 1 
Austria, Russia, France, Sweden, and the German Empire, arrayed 
against little Prussia and her only Ally, England ! A war which cost 
Europe one million lives, and exhausted all the States embarked in it, 
without having procured to any but England the smallest substantial 
advantage. Behold the hour: the man, of Prussia, was the Great Fred¬ 
erick—who emerged covered with glory, with Prussia as a first-class 
Power. England came out of it as the Great Britain, with the seal set 
to her maritime and commercial supremacy in the four quarters of the 
globe : but who was the man of England? Need it be said : that man 
was the immortal Pitt, whose name must ever be identified with the 
consolidation of our national greatness. 
The student of official history enters this period with the conscious¬ 
ness of a new spirit pervading the musty folios. Hitherto England 
had been equal to only one Expedition at a time; all the energies of 
the nation were concentrated upon that undertaking ; and the official 
1 Carlyle’s “ Frederick the Great/’ p. 313. 
1. YOL. XXI. 
