My Sister, to whom I address the Letter, will deliver it.
"You have seen the Paper I sent to Klinggraf.

Their Answer is 'That they have not made an Offensive Alliance with Russia against me.' The Answer is impertinent, high and contemptuous; and of the Assurance that I required [as to This Year and next], not one word.

So that the sword alone can cut this Gordian Knot.

I am innocent of this War; I have done what I could to avoid it; but whatever be one's love of peace, one cannot and must not sacrifice to that, one's safety and one's honor.
Such, I believe, will be your opinion too, from the sentiments I know in you.

At present, our one thought must be, To do War in such a way as may cure our Enemies of their wish to break Peace again too soon.