For there can be no Election of a King of the Romans without the unanimous consent of the Empire;--so you perceive, that always depends on me.
MEMORIAL BY VOLTAIRE.

"5.

Whoever has spoken but a quarter of an hour to the Duke d'Ahremberg [who spilt Lord Stair's fine enterprises lately, and reduced them to a DETTINGEN, or a getting into the mouse-trap and a getting out], to the Count Harrach [important Austrian Official], Lord Stair, or any of the partisans of Austria, even for a quarter of an hour [as I have often done], has beard them say, That they burn with desire to open the campaign in Silesia again.

Have you in that case, Sire, any ally but France?
And, however potent you are, is an ally useless to you?
You know the resources of the House of Austria, and how many Princes are united to it.

But will they resist your power, joined to that of the House of Bourbon?
MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH.