With regard to the affairs of Poland, an Empress whom I ought to be well with, and to whom I owe great obligations, requires me to enter into her measures; you, Madam, whom I would fain please if I could, you want me to change the sentiments of this Empress.

Do but enter into my embarrassment!...

According to all I hear from Russia, it appears to me that every resolution is taken there; and that the Empress is resolved even to sustain the party of her partisans in Poland with the forces she has all in readiness at the borders.

As for me, Madam, I wish, if possible, not to meddle at all with this business, which hitherto is not complicated, but which may, any day, become so by the neighbors of Poland taking a too lively part in it.

Ready, otherwise, on all occasions, to give to your Electoral Highness proofs of my--" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiv, 54: "Potsdam, 16th November, 1763."] Electress (after ten days)....