The humor at Vienna is obstinately defiant; simply to regard Friedrich as a housebreaker or thief in the night; whom they will soon deal with, were they once on foot and implements in their hand: "Swift, ye Sea-Powers; where are the implements, the cash, that means implements ?" The Young Hungarian Majesty herself is magnificently of that opinion, which is sanctioned by her Bartensteins and wisest Hofraths, with hardly a dissentient (old Sinzendorf almost alone in his contrary notion, and he soon dies).

Robinson urges the dangers from France.

No Hofrath here will allow himself to believe them; to believe them would be too horrible.
"Depend upon it, France's intentions are not that way.

And at the worst, if France do rise against us, it is but bargaining with France; better so than bargaining with Prussia, surely.

France will be contentable with something in the Netherlands; what else can she want of us?
Parings from that outskirt, what are these compared with Silesia, a horrid gash into the vital parts?
And what is yielding to the King of France, compared with yielding to your Prussian King!"-- It is true they have no money, these blind dull people; but are not the Sea-Powers, England especially, there, created by Nature to supply money?
What else is their purpose in Creation?
By Nature's law, as the Sun mounts in the Ecliptic and then falls, these Sea-Powers, in the Cause of Liberty, will furnish us money.