It was a concession to force and weakness, to peace and war; the whole state of Europe was there unveiled, for it was the declaration of the uncertainty and anarchy of its councils.
XVII.
After this imprudent and useless act, the two sovereigns separated.
Leopold to go and be crowned at Prague, and the king of Prussia, returning to Berlin, began to put his army on a war footing.

The emigrants, triumphing in the engagement they had entered into, increased in numbers.

The courts of Europe, with the exception of England, sent in equivocal adhesions to the courts of Berlin and Vienna.

The noise of the declaration of Pilnitz burst forth, and died away in Paris in the midst of the fetes in honour of the acceptance of the constitution.
However, Leopold, after the conferences at Pilnitz, was more earnest than ever in his attempts to find excuses for peace.

The Prince de Kaunitz, his minister, feared all violent shocks, which might derange the old diplomatic mechanism, whose workings he so well knew.