That for certain I will not quit Silesia till my claims be satisfied.

And the longer I am forced to continue warring for them here," wasting more resource and risk upon them, "the higher they will rise!" [_Helden-Geschichte,_ i.

963.] And this is what comes of that terribly courageous Dutch-English "Joint-Resolution of a strong nature;" it has literally cut before the point: the Exhortation is not yet presented, but the Treaty with France is signed in virtue of it!-- Undoubtedly this of June 5th is the most important Treaty in the Austrian-Succession War, and the cardinal element of Friedrich's procedure in that Adventure.

And it has never been published; nor, till Herr Professor Ranke got access to the Prussian Archives, has even the date of signing it been rightly known; but is given two or three ways in different express Collections of Treaties.

[Scholl, ii.