It was soon found out that Mirabeau had been right when he said that for a monarchy it was too democratic, and for a republic there was a king too much.

This was Burke's _Reflections_ in a nutshell.

But it was foreign intervention that finally ruined the king, and destroyed the hope of an orderly issue.

Frederick the Great had set the first example of what some call iniquity and violence in Europe, and others in milder terms call a readjustment of the equilibrium of nations.

He had taken Silesia from the house of Austria, and he had shared in the first partition of Poland.