9782. UNTERREDUNG DES KÖNIGS MIT DEM GROSSBRITANNISCHEN MINISTER MITCHELL.
[Breslau, Februar 1758.]
Mitchell berichtet an Holdernesse, Breslau 19. Februar, (private): „...Upon an insinuation I made to the King of Prussia, he owned to me that he once thought of going to assist the King's army himself,<252> and that, if the King's army could have been ready to act any time in the month of January, he would have gone, but that the season was now too far advanced for him to be absent, especially as there was nobody here he could trust with the command of the army during his absence.
When I communicatéd the intelligence in Your Lordship's letter of the 3rd February,252-1 the King of Prussia said, his enemies should not find it so easy to crush him as they had imagined, that he would stand it to the last, and was not to be vanquished by treaties ...“
Nach dem Concept im British Museum zu London.
252-1 Frankreich und Oesterreich sollten am 15. Januar einen neuen Vertrag geschlossen haben, mit der Festsetzung, die Waffen nicht niederzulegen, als bis sie den König von Preussen gezwungen hätten, alles anzunehmen, was sie vorschreiben würden.