But I will not speculate on the aims of Providence, or the evil to be overruled for good.  With my limited vision, I can only present facts and their immediate consequences.  I can only deduce the moral truths which are logically to be drawn from a career of wicked ambition.  These truths are a part of that moral, wisdom which experience confirms, and which alone should be the guiding lesson to all statesmen and all empires.  Let us pursue the right, and leave the consequences to Him who rules the fate of war, and guides the nations to the promised period when men shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and universal peace shall herald the reign of the Saviour of the world.

AUTHORITIES.

The great work of Carlyle on the Life of Frederic, which exhausts the subject; Macaulay’s Essay on the Life and Times of Frederic the Great; Carlyle’s Essay on Frederic; Lord Brougham on Frederic; Coxe’s History of the House of Austria; Mirabeau’s Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin; Oeuvres de Frederic le Grand; Ranke’s Neuc Buecher Preussischer Geschichte; Poellnitz’s Memoirs and Letters; Walpole’s Reminiscences; Letters of Voltaire; Voltaire’s Idee du Roi de Prusse; Life of Baron Trenck; Gillies View of the Reign of Frederic II.; Thiebault’s Memoires de Frederic le Grand; Biographic Universelle; Thronbesteigung; Holden.