was only seventeen; the Queen of Hungary was disposed for peace.

"The English ministry, which laid down the law for all, because it laid down the money, and which had in its pay, all at one time, the Queen of Hungary, the King of Poland, and the King of Sardinia, considered that there was everything to lose by a treaty with France, and everything to gain by arms.

War continued, because it had commenced." [Voltaire, _Siecle de Louis XV_.] The King of France henceforth maintained it almost alone by himself.

The young Elector of Bavaria had already found himself driven out of Munich, and forced by his exhausted subjects to demand peace of Maria Theresa.
The election to the empire was imminent; Maximilian-Joseph promised his votes to the Grand-duke of Tuscany; at that price he was re-established in his hereditary dominions.

The King of Poland had rejected the advances of France, who offered him the title of emperor, beneath which Charles VII.