In a permanent Arrangement, many things need settling, which are easier to settle now than they ever will be again.

Patience; haste without speed is a thriftless method." [Ib.

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529.] February 5th, the trio at Hubertsburg got their Preliminaries signed.

On the tenth day thereafter, the Treaty itself was signed and sealed.
All other Treaties on the same subject had been guided towards a contemporary finis: England and France, ready since the 3d of November last, signed and ended February 10th.