Nor generally in the Princes of the Reich, though one would have thought them personally concerned, were it only for danger of a like mistreatment, was there any emotion publicly expressed, or the least hope of help.

"Perhaps Prussia will quarrel about it ?" think they: "Austria, Prussia, in any of their quarrels we get only crushed; better to keep out of it.

We well out of it, the more they quarrel and fight, the better for us!" England, in the shape of Hanover, would perhaps have made some effort to interfere, provided France did: on either side, I incline to think,--that is to say, on the side opposite to France.

But poor England is engaged with its melancholy American War; France on the point of breaking out into Alliance with the Insurrection there.

Neither France nor England did interfere.