I love to flatter myself with your friendship, Sire, and I will not easily renounce the hope that you will give me a real mark of it in an affair which interests me so strongly.
Nobody has greater ascendency over the mind of the Empress of Russia than your Majesty; use it, Sire, to incline it to our favor.

Our obligation will be infinite....

Why should she be absolutely against us?
What has she to fear from us?
The Courland business, if that sticks with her, could be terminated in a suitable manner."-- Troops into Poland, Sire ?"My Husband so little thinks of sending troops thither, that he has given orders for the return of those already there.

He does not wish the Crown except from the free suffrages of the Nation: if the Empress absolutely refuse to help him with her good offices, let her, at least, not be against him.

Do try, Sire." [Ib.