ine did not persist in her Anti-Prussian determination. July 9th,
the Manifesto had been indignantly emphatic on Prussia; July 22d, in a
Note to Goltz from the Czarina, it was all withdrawn again. [Rodenbeck,
ii. 171.] Looking into the deceased Czar's Papers, she found that
Friedrich's Letters to him had contained nothing of wrong or offensive;
always excellent advices, on the contrary,--advice, among others, To be
conciliatory to his clever-witted Wife, and to make her his ally, not
his opponent, in living and reigning. In Konigsberg (July 16th, seven
days after July 9th), the Russian Governor, just on the point of
quitting, emitted Proclamation, to everybody's horror: "No; altered, all
that; under pain of death, your Oath to Russia still valid!" Which for
the next ten days, or till his new proclamation, made such a Konigsberg
of it as may be imagined. The sight of those Letters is understood to
have turned the scale; which had hung wavering till July 22d in the
Czarina's mind. "Can it be good," she might privately think withal, "to
begin our reign by kindling a foolish War again?" How Friedrich received
the news of July 9th, and into what a crisis it threw him, we shall soon
see. His Campaign had begun July 1st;--and has been summoning us home,
into ITS horizon, for some time.

Chapter XI.--SEVENTH CAMPAIGN OPENS.

Freidrich's plan of Campaign is settled long since: Recapture
Schweidnitz; clear Silesia of the enemy; Silesia and all our own
Dominions clear, we can then stand fencible against the Austrian
perseverances. Peace, one day, they must grant us. The general tide
of European things is changed by these occurrences in Petersburg and
London. Peace is evidently near. France and England are again beginning
to negotiate; no Pitt now to be rigorous. The tide of War has been
wavering at its summit for two years past; and now, with this of Russia,
and this of Bute instead of Pitt, there is ebb everywhere, and all
Europe determining for peace. Steady at the helm, as heretofore, a
Friedrich, with the world-current in his favor, may hope to get home
after all.

Austrian Head-quarters had been at Waldenburg, under Loudon or his
Lieutenants, all Winter. Loudon returned thither from Vienna April 7th;
but is not to command in chief, this Year,--Schweidnitz still sticking
in some people's throats: "Dangerous; a man with such rash practices,
rapidities and Pandour tendencies!" Daun is to command in Silesia;
Loudon, unde