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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
a letter in which he allowed the interest of his kingdom to suffer from personal pique, or passion, or dynastic influences. His cares are for the country which he rather serves than rules. He sees and exactly measures its weakness as well as its strength; he cares for every one of its disconnected parts, and gathers them all under his wings. But he connects his policy with the movement of the world towards light and reason, the amelioration of domestic and international law. When in May, 1776, the Prussian minister in 1776. London offered to submit a plan for a direct commerce with America, so as to open a sale for Silesian cloths, and at the same time to procure American products at the cheapest rate, Maltzan to Frederic, 21 May, 1776. Frederic answered: The plan appears to me very problematical. Without a fleet, how could I cause such a commerce to be respected? Frederic to Maltzan, 3 June, 1776. I shall never be able to form a navy strong enough to protect it. Fre