Hear the stiff Answer that comes: "'Conditions of Peace,' do you call them?
The people that propose such can have no wish to see Peace.
What a logic theirs! 'I might yield the Country of Cleve, because the inhabitants are stupid'! What would your Ministers say if one required the Province of Champagne from them, because the Proverb says, Ninety-nine sheep and one Champagner make a Hundred head of cattle ?" [Friedrich to Voltaire, "Freyberg, 3d April, 1760:" _OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiii.

73, 74.] AGAIN TO D'ARGENTAL (three or four months after; Luc having proved obstinate, and still unsuccessful)....

"I conjure you make use of all your eloquence to tell him [the supreme Duc de Choiseul], that if Luc misgo, it will be no misfortune to France.

That Brandenburg will always remain an Electorate; that it is good there be no Elector in it strong enough to do without the protection of our King; and that all the Princes of the Empire will always have recourse to that august protection Most Christian Majesty's] CONTRA L'AQUILA GRIFAGNA,--were the Prussian Kingship but abolished.

Nota bene, if Luc were discomfited this Year, we should have Peace next Winter." [_OEuvres de Voltaire,_ lxxix.