SECOND, There WILL be allies; France and England always in rivalry, both meddling in these matters, King is sure to get either the one or the other .-- THIRD, Silesian War lies handy to us, and is the only kind of Offensive War that does; Country bordering on our frontier, and with the Oder running through it as a sure high-road for everything.

FOURTH, "What suddenly turned the balance," or at least what kept it steady in that posture,--"news of the Czarina's death arrives:" Russia has ceased to count against us; and become a manageable quantity.

On, therefore!-- "Add to these reasons," says the King, with a candor which has not been well treated in the History Books, "Add to these reasons, an Army ready for acting; Funds, Supplies all found [lying barrelled in the Schloss at Berlin];--and perhaps the desire of making oneself a name," from which few of mortals able to achieve it are exempt in their young time: "all this was cause of the War which the King now entered upon." [_OEuvres de Frederic_ (Histoire de mon Temps), i.

128.] "Desire to make himself a name; how shocking!" exclaim several Historians.

"Candor of confession that he may have had some such desire; how honest!" is what they do not exclaim.