This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 edition. Excerpt: ... at least upon the conduct and language of the King of Prussia. When we look back to the particular events and general issue of the two preceding campaigns, no man can hesitate to conclude that the Prussian Monarch took more to heart, and did more to effect the weakening of the House of Austria, than ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795 edition. Excerpt: ... at least upon the conduct and language of the King of Prussia. When we look back to the particular events and general issue of the two preceding campaigns, no man can hesitate to conclude that the Prussian Monarch took more to heart, and did more to effect the weakening of the House of Austria, than the crushing of the nascent republic of France: and if this letter do not acquit the Duke of Brunswick of privacy and co-operation in the designs of this treacherous Monarch, it will however hand down to posterity in its proper colouring the blackness of his perfidy, which already stands in the face of Europe as a known political truth. His Imperial Majesty delivered in at the Diet at Ratifbon, a note to demand the fense of the German States respecting the necessity of arming all the inhabitants on the frontiers of Germany, and of furnishing a triple contingent on the part of the said States; and as Chief of the Empire, he requested the advice of his co-estates, not! only respecting the general arming of the inhabitants inhabitants of the Germanic frontiers, but also the means of coercion to be employed against such of the members, who had not fulfilled the obligations imposed upon them by the decree of the Diet on the twentythird of November 1792, for effectually furnishing their triple contingents. Determinately reluctant were those States to enter into this armed confederacy; they could discover in it no general object of advantage, nor were they allured to it by particular views of present or future interest. The general arming of the Germanic frontiers would have been a measure too effectual to stop the further progress of the French, to have answered the treacherous designs of the King of Prussia; he accordingly opposed it iri the Diet, ..
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