This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Austrian cause a certain prestige, which would be serviceable in other directions. This soon appeared. Under the act of the diet, Sweden woidd have been liable only for the quota of troops due from West Pomerania as a part of the Lower Saxon circle. But Sweden was already taking measures to enter as an independent ally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...Austrian cause a certain prestige, which would be serviceable in other directions. This soon appeared. Under the act of the diet, Sweden woidd have been liable only for the quota of troops due from West Pomerania as a part of the Lower Saxon circle. But Sweden was already taking measures to enter as an independent ally into the larger plans of the Austrian party, and a treaty with France, signed on the twenty-first of March, 1757, marked the beginning of the change. By its terms the two powers agreed to act together in executing the guaranties of the treaty of Westphalia. This was in the usual language of such stipulations, and reads fair; but the next articles contain, though in vague and guarded phraseology, the promise of France to secure for Sweden some further morsels of Pomerania.1 The adhesion of the empress-queen to the treaty was invited in the fifth article. Ten days later, on the thirty-first of March, the two courts gave public notice of their intervention. It is well understood that the treaty was extorted from the king, Adolph Frederic, by the senatorial oligarchy, whose hatred of Frederic and Prussia is described as boundless.2 1 Articles ii. and iii. Schoell, iii. 33-36. Sweden had already refused to undertake a special guaranty of Magdeburg and Halberstadt, which Frederic had suggested. See Huschberg-Wuttke, pp. 103,104. 2 Raumer, Beitrage, ii. 401. Both Austria and Russia subsequently acceded to the treaty. Thus the hunt of the allied courts went merrily on. Not satisfied to pursue Sweden alike as a Ger-TheGer man and as a non-German power, and knowing well the inborn procrastination of the imperial military system, they had also adopted the plan of engaging the separate princes by special treaties, under which money was to be furnished by...
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