Darmstadt and Wurtemberg and
Saxony and Weimar and a few petty local princes to live on just as long
as its own supremacy was recognized and extended. The Franco-German War
consolidated the power of Prussia, and its king became the German emperor.
Naturally the exiled sovereigns had friends, and they sought to make their
claims known. A former Hanoverian Prime Minister wrote novels in which the
kind King of Hanover and his allies figured in most heroic guise. The
friend of the exiled Elector of Cassel defended his prince by showing the
real nature of the alliance between Hesse-Cassel and England a hundred
years ago, and thus throwing on Prussia the burden of the responsibility
of driving away a prince whose ancestors had done great service to his
people. For American students of history this pamphlet has a certain value
and interest as throwing a new light on part of our own history, and as
showing that there is justification for the Hessians in their alliance
with Great Britain and in their service in this country in the resistance
made by the mother country to the claim of the colonies to independence.
The successful outcome of the American Revolution made it difficult to
secure a patient hearing of the other side. Even at this late day,
therefore, the foregoing abstract of the "Defence of the Hessians" may not
be without value and interest. The authorship of the pamphlet is not as
yet made public, but it is evidently the work of a man loyal to the
Elector of Hesse-Cassel and earnest in defending his ancestors.--J. G. R.

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