Our services are gained to a certain extent [by France]; but we shall not go further unless events carry us on; and we do not dream of plunging into war because it might suit France to do so." Again, however, the military men seem to have pushed on the diplomatists.

The Archduke Albrecht and Count Vitzthum went to Paris charged with some promises of support to France in case of war.
Thereafter, Count Beust gave the assurance at Vienna that the Austrians would be "faithful to our engagements, as they have been recorded in the letters exchanged last year between the two sovereigns.

We consider the cause of France as ours, and we will contribute to the success of her arms to the utmost of our power[17]." [Footnote 17: _Memoirs of Count Beust,_ vol.ii.p.

359.

_The Present Position of European Politics_ p.