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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle
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alliance with the English Princess and the Prince of Prussia;
and flatter themselves the Prince-Royal of Prussia will accompany
the Princess-Royal," Wilhelmina, "on HER marriage there." "In a
word, that all turns on this latter point," marriage of the
PRINCE-Royal as well; and "that Villa has given so favorable a
description of this Prince, that the English Princess will have
him at what price soever. Nosti can also allege the affair of
100,"--whom we at last decipher to be LORD HARRINGTON, once
Colonel Stanhope, of Soissons, of the Madrid Embassy, of the
descent on Vigo; a distinguished new Lord, with whom Newcastle
hopes to shove out Townshend,--"Lord Harrington, and the division
among the Ministers:"--great question, Shall the firm be Townshend
and Walpole, or Walpole and Townshend? just going on; brewing
towards decision; in which the Prussian Double-Marriage is really
a kind of card, and may by Nosti be represented as a trump card.

"The whole Town of Berlin said, This Villa was dismissed by order
of the King, for he taught the eldest Princess English; but I see
well it was Borck, 107, [An Indecipherable.] Knyphausen and
Dubourgay that despatched him, to give a true picture of the
situation here. And if Nosti has written to his Majesty to the
same effect as he does to his Friend [Despatch to Majesty has not
yet come under Friend's eye] on the Queen of England's views about
the Prince-Royal of Prussia, it will answer marvellously (CELA
VIENT A MERVEILLE). I have apprised Seckendorf of all that Nosti
writes to me." 'For the rest, Nosti may perfectly assure himself
that the King never will abandon Reichenbach; and if the
Prince-Royal,' sudden Fate interfering, 'had the reins in his
hand,--in that case, Seckendorf promises to Reichenbach, on the
part of the Kaiser, all or more than all he can lose by the
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