[592] “F. O.,” Prussia, 12. Ewart to Carmarthen, 27th September 1787.
[593] Pitt MSS., 119.
[594] Pitt MSS., 119. Carmarthen to Ewart, 2nd December 1787. Fraser, our envoy at St. Petersburg, reported on 1st November that Austria was proposing there a Triple Alliance, but it was coolly received (“F. O.,” Russia, 15).
[595] Ibid. Carmarthen to Ewart, 26th December.
[596] See Ewart’s masterly Memorandum in “Dropmore P.,” ii, 44–9.
[597] Luckwaldt, 100 et seq. Ewart found out the secret instructions issued to Dietz, and forwarded them to London on 8th April. They show that Prussia sought by all means to encourage the Turks, but laid her plans so as to get an indemnity in land in case Austria gained land in the south-east.
[598] “F. O.,” Prussia, 13. Ewart to Carmarthen, 15th March 1788.
[599] Ibid. Ewart to Carmarthen, 15th January 1788. Lecky (v, 232) assigns the first rumours of Prussian indemnities in land to January 1789; but Ewart reported the beginnings of Hertzberg’s plan in January 1788.
[600] Ibid. Carmarthen to Ewart, 2nd April.
[601] See his letter of 24th November 1787 to Dietz at Constantinople in Häusser, “Deutsche Geschichte,” i, 225–6.