Friedrich permits; the Fleury letter comes; to the effect: "Make peace with us, O Queen; with your Prussian neighbor you shall make--what suits you!" Friedrich read; learned conclusively, what perhaps he had already as good as known otherwise; and drew the inference.
[_Helden-Geschichte,_ ii.

633; Hormayr, _Anemonen,_ ii.

186; Adelung, iii.

A, 149 n.] Actual copy of this letter the most ardent Gazetteer curiosity could not attain to, at that epoch; but the Pallandt story seems to have been true;--and as to the Fleury letter in such circumstances, copies of various Fleury letters to the like purport are still public enough; and Fleury's private intentions, already guessed at by Friedrich, are in our time a secret to nobody that inquires about them.
Certain enough, Peace with Friedrich is now on the way; and cannot well linger:--what prospect has Austria otherwise?
Its very supplies from England will be stopped.

Hyndford redoubles his diligence; Britannic Majesty reiterates at Vienna: "Did not I tell you, Madam; there is no hope or possibility till these Prussians are off our hands!" To which her Hungarian Majesty, as the bargain was, now sorrowfully assents; sorrowfully, unwillingly,--and always lays the blame on his Britannic Majesty afterwards, and brings it up again as a great favor she had done HIM.