February 11th, the Reich signed and ended; February 15th, Prussia, Austria, Saxony; and the THIRD SILESIAN or SEVEN-YEARS WAR was completely finished.

[Copy of the treaty in _Helden-Geschichte,_ vii.

624 et seq.; in Seyfarth, _Beylagen,_ iii.
479-495; in ROUSSET, in WENCK, in &c.

&c.] It had cost, in loss of human lives first of all, nobody can say what: according to Friedrich's computation, there had perished of actual fighters, on the various fields, of all the nations, 853,000; of which above the fifth part, or 180,000, is his own share: and, by misery and ravage, the general Population of Prussia finds itself 500,000 fewer; nearly the ninth man missing.

This is the expenditure of Life.