Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, in his letters from Dresden, writes: “Now, as every thing of every kind, from the highest affairs of the state down to operas and hunting, are all in Count Brühl’s immediate care, I leave you to judge how his post is executed. His expenses are immense. He keeps three hundred servants and as many horses. It is said, and I believe it, that he takes money for every thing the king disposes of in Poland, where they frequently have very great employments to bestow.”
[62] Histoire de mon Temps.
[63] Campagnes de le Roi de Prusse, p. 5.
[64] Œuvres de Frédéric, xvii., p. 196.
[65] Campaigns of the King of Prussia, p. 57.
[66] Correspondance de Frédéric II.
[67] “Huge huzzaing, herald-trumpeting, bob-major-ing, burst forth from all Prussian towns, especially from all Silesian ones, in those June days, as the drums beat homeward; elaborate illuminations in the short nights, with bonfires, with transparencies; transparency inscribed ‘Frederico Magno (To Frederick the Great),’ in one small instance, still of premature nature.”—Carlyle.
[68] Bielfeld, 251.
[69] Histoire de mon Temps.
[70] Bielfeld, p. 251.