e Kaiser himself, do now, in their general
Patriotic "Union," which as yet consists only of Four, covenant, in Six
Articles, To,--in brief, to support Teutschland's oppressed Kaiser in
his just rights and dignities; and to do, with the House of Austria,
"all imaginable good offices" (not the least whisper of fighting)
towards inducing said high House to restore to the Kaiser his
Reichs-Archives, his Hereditary Countries, his necessary Imperial
Furnishings, called for by every law human and divine:--in which
endeavor, or innocently otherwise, if any of the contracting parties
be attacked, the others will guarantee him, and strenuously help. "All
imaginable good offices;" nothing about fighting anywhere,--still less
is there the least mention of France; total silence on that head, by
Friedrich's express desire. But in a Secret Article (to which France,
you may be sure, will accede), it is intimated, "That the way of good
offices having some unlikelihoods, it MAY become necessary to take arms.
In which tragic case, they will, besides Hereditary Baiern (which is
INalienable, fixed as the rocks, by Reichs-Law), endeavor to conquer,
to reconquer for the Kaiser, his Kingdom of Bohmen withal, as a proper
Outfit for Teutschland's Chief: and that, if so, his Prussian Majesty
(who will have to do said conquest) shall, in addition to his Schlesien,
have from it the Circles of Konigsgratz, Bunzlau and Leitmeritz for his
trouble." This is the Treaty of Union, Secret-Article and all; done at
Frankfurt-on-Mayn, 22d May, 1744.

Done then and there; but no part of it made public, till August
following, ["22d August 1744, by the Kaiser" (Adelung, iv. 154.)] (when
the upshot had come); and the Secret Bohemian Article NOT then made
public, nor ever afterwards,--much the contrary; though it was true
enough, but inconvenient to confess, especially as it came to nothing.
"A hypothetical thing, that," says Friedrich carelessly; "wages moderate
enough, and proper to be settled beforehand, though the work was never
done." To reach down quite over the Mountains, and have the Elbe for
Silesian Frontier: this, as an occasional vague thought, or day-dream
in high moments, was probably not new to Friedrich; and would have been
very welcome to him,--had it proved realizable, which it did not. That
this was "Friedrich's real end in going to War again," was at one time
the opinion loudly current in England and other uninformed quarters;
"but it is not no