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thk sevkn years wak.
It is with astonishment that one
notes a writ r cited as an auhority
state tiiat the coalition against
Prussia in the Seven dears War con
sisted of Great Britain. France, Aus
tria. Sweden and Saxony. It was
v>f course no such thing. Great Bri
tain supported Prussia, while Russia
was the most formidable of the foes
of Frederic the Great. United with
Austria was also the entire Ger
manic body. None the less the fact
that Frcdt ric did baffle tin •• remor
selessly powerful foes during a war
of : v-:i y, :,r. duration is an • xtra
or unary f - that has been made
fr„ u ■ n. -how that The r. ntral
Pov.ers tod ■ is:: •• ;sily : • .nmplish
tin ti-.ag ; gainst tie Knt elite
tii.it now surrounds them.
Two of the greatest English writ
ers, t'ari' .e and Tl: < ulay. l'.avc
giv. n attention to this dramatic per
iod of the world s history hut likely
;\:i not. concentrating their attention
upon the v. .nd rful Prussian king
whose dramatic personality has. been
quite sufTlci nt to fascinate writer
r.-.ul reader, they have overlooked
completely the far more important
part tiiat the Seven Years War
pi. yed in English history and in th
up-building under Pitt's ndm'.nntra
l•■.>!! of the British Empire.
it was the British naval ..nd mili
tary power that tore colony after
colony from Francs. and through
file. and others establish -d th
British ascendancy in Hindustan.
it was tlic British forces und r
Wolfe at the Heights of Abraham
pi. mod the British Hag Caere
whence it hr.s ovrr since flown.
The aid extended to Purssia. al
though belittled by many historians
was of a very practical nature.
Hanoverian troops. British soldiers,
and other mercenaries were hired
by English gold and in return Fred
eric was asked alone to supply a
general. That general was Prince
Ferdinand of Brunswick and his
reputation as a leader is only dim
med because of the unusual brillian
cy of the King of Prussia himself,
frevelt and Mind's were two vic
tories ot little b . i ‘ . i ; ■ '■ than
Kosbttch and Leutm-n.
Another interesting fact in con
vection with war is that the Pope
m the beginning maintained a strict
neutrality. Benedict the Fourteenth
then reigned. Since lx is time by the
way there have been no more Bene
dicts until the present occupant of
the See cf Si. Peter Upon the death
of Benedict in 17f.9 Clement tlie
Thirteenth oncnly espoused the
cause of Austria.
It is now freely recognized that
ivhat saved Prussia was the death ot
th; Empress Elizabeth of Mussia
and the fact that Great Britain pair
Ml off with France in a sep rate
peace. And one reason why the
wit’s consequences were not more
disastrous was because of the fact
that Prussia did not owe a pfenning
to anyone upon its conclusion.
The interesting feature and by
long odds th most instreutive of the
Seven Years War was the nolicy of
■Great Britain.
Pitt, then styled the Great Com
moner, was supreme. That he was
a great administrator is doubtless
subject to question, but at any rate
what he did do was to give a free
if neglecting hand to the dare devil
le-dcrs in foreign part-, naval and
iKilitory, and these created the nuc
leus of the British Empire.
While France was directing its ni
tration to the prosecution of the war
on land. Great Britain instead of
wasting time in Europe to any great
extent went alter the colonies of
France and practically took them
all.
In tin Bonder Guildhall is a monu
ment to Pitt, afterwards Lord
Chatham. Maeauk > alludes to the
“fine" inseriptif n upon it. that ic
•.aription surely testifying that uu
der his administration "Commerce
! was united with, and flourished by,
war". Tin y were at least candid in
those days, and while many histor
ians have attempted to improve the
ideals which were England’s in this
war, the citizens of London resorted
to no such pretenses and admit the
real object upon the part of Eng
land.
This will explain why Pitt rose sc
highly in the estimation of all the
citizens of Great Britain. His cor.
quests, or more correctly the ton-!
quests ur.Vr his. administration, ad-1
(led imn.i nsidy to the wealth of tin
country. This will explain why
sin!; lions credits wer.' passed:
with - : nil ease oy par!lame;.:.
which !r. i h grudged scanty p a
sions a hort time before. It will
explain . ay gift after gill of gol-i
left for 1 russia to maintain arrnii -
whose vi, :ory could in the h ast in
no way r -dound to the glory of Bri
tain.
It 1.- true that a good many made
the triumphs of Prussia a triumph
for Protestantism and democrat',
and one of Whitfield’s hearers in tho
London T..bernac !e echoed a general
).( pulnr : i-ntiment when he declared
that ‘‘Tilt Lord stirred up the King
of Prussia to pray. They kept three
fast . :i\, and spent about an hoar
praying and singing psalms before
engaging the enemy. O! bow good
it is to pray and fight". That jnari
was a genuine preparedness sup
porter!
But in point of fact Great Britain
would have tolerated the support of
! Prussia j’ust as long as it could have
Heen stopped and no longer had not
the war brought millions to the
worthy burgesses of London and
other cities. The ships came home
with the bullion, the silks the ivo
ries of the east. The trade of India
became a British monopoly. The
struggling company in Bengal be
came a governing and grasping body
to end its glory only with the Sepoy
rebellion of another century. Am
erica became British territory and
had it not been for the folly of the
succeeding king, who knows how
differently might history have to he
written? The various exports from
the states fattened the merchants
of tlie Brii.th isles and all due to
the lucky position taken by the
British during the Seven Years
War.
In fact the struggle upon the
part of the King of Prussia, brought
on doubtless by his own exasperat
ing personality to a great extent,
was a struggle for his existence. For
Great Britain it was for the founda
tion “of the mightiest empire that
lias been”. Xot indeed for the sake
of empire hut for the sake of com
merce which to use the words of the
inscription upon the Chatham monu
ment "was united with and flour
ished by war".
Today that, would he considered
a horrid admssion by any power,
it is very interesting to observe that
none want to admit that profits and
the war have anything in common.
Germany is struggling fpr the ex
istence of the Fatherland: England
is struggling against the blight of
Prussianism; France is fighting
against the German menace, Russia
and Austria each are struggling
against the stifling encroachments
of the oiler, and all are apparently
agreed that God and Liberty is upon
their side.
We dont know, but surely it might
be comforting did one lone nation
admit the fact, even if it is obvious
that they are fighting because Com
merce is united with, and flourishes
by. war”.
There is no use trying to discover
the ending of this present great
war with (he ending that came to
ihr Seven Years War. In the first
I . any of the nations now engaged
in the war could with little trouble
have anihilated the entire forces on
both rid e of the seven years wat
within one year. In the Seven
Years War Prussia sustained ser
ious reverses even during the first
half of the war, in the present the
Central Powers have been aimos.
uniformly victorious from the first.
In 175b the position of Prussia was
desperate, yet only with the peace
of Kubertsburg in February 1765
did this remarkable war end. Ma
caulay’s summary of the war is
striking:
"The war was over. Frederic was
safe. His glory was beyond th
reach of envy. If he had not made
conquests as vast as those of Alex
ander, of Caesar, and of Napoleon, it
he had not on fields of battle, en
joyed the constant success of Marl
borough and Wellington, he had
given an example unrivalled in his
tory of what capacity and resolution
can effect against the greatest
superiority of power, and the utmost
spite of fortune. He entered Berlin
in triumph, after an absence of al
most six years. The streets were
brilliantly lighted up; and as he
passed along, in an open carriage,
with Ferdinand of Brunswick at his
side, the multitude saluted him
with loud praises and blessings. He
was moved by those marks of at
tachment and repeatedly exclaimed
"Hong live my dear people! Long
live my children”. Yet even in the
midst of that gay spectacle, he could
not hut perceiye everywhere the
traces of destruction and decay. The
city had been more than once
plundered. The population had con
siderably diminished. Berlin how.
ever had suffered very little when
compared with most parts of the
kingdom. The ruin of private for
tunes. the distress of all ranks, was
such as might appal the firmest
mind. Almost every province had
been the seat of war. and of w; !
conducted with merciie.-':- ferocity .
Crowds of Croatians had descend i
on Si!e da. Tens of thousands of
Cossacks had been let loose on Pom
erania and Brandenburg. The lin .
contributions levied by invaders
amounted, it was said, to more than
!a hundred million dollars; and the
'value of what they extorted was
I probably ninth less than the valu
i of that which they destroyed. The
! fields lay uncultivated. The very
I seed corn had been devoured in the
! madness of hunger. Famine and
■ contagious diseases produced by
famine, had swept away herds and
| fiocks; and there was reashn to fear
| that a great pestilence among the
; human race might follow in Hie
train of the tremendous war. Near
! fifteen thousand houses were burned
! to the ground. The population ot
i the kingdom had in seven years de
creased ten per cent. A sixth ot
the males capable of bearing arms
j had perished on the field of battle.
In some districts no laborers ex
cept women were seen in the fields
at harvesttime, in others the travel
ler passed shuddering through a j
succession of silent villages, in j
which not a single inhabitant re-!
mamed. Tiie currency had been de-!
based; the whole social system was I
deranged. For during that eonvul- j
sive struggle everything that was!
not military \ iolence was anarchy. j
Even the army was disorganized, j
-hunt- great generals and a crowd of j
(xeellent officers had fallen, and it I
was impossible to suppl. their plica. |
'I'ut difficulty of finding tecruits had.
toward the close of war, been so
great that selection and rejection
was impossible. Whole battalions
were composed of deserters and pri
soners. It was hardly hoped that
thirty years of repose and industry
would repair the ruin produced by
seven years of havoc. One consolatory
circumstances indeed there was. No
debt had been incurred. The burd
ens of the war had been terrible, al
most insupportable; but no arrear
was left to euibarras the finance in
time of peace.".
Contrast the position of Germany
today witli Prussia of that day and
and we find that Germany has hard
ly begun to suffer. On the west
and on the East it is still superior
numerically. Germany has been
hungry but very far from “devour
ing her seed corn in the madness of
hunger”. Its productive capacity is
reinforced by the inspiration neces
sity has unquestionably given inven
tion. Her provinces have been not
touched by the ravishing hand of
the invader No wild troops of Cos
sacks or of Croatians or the like
have swept like a devouring swarm
of locusts over her fertile plains, or
destroyed with the destructive pow
er of looting rapine the maj< sty ol
her cities. That seems all so well.
But on the other hand Germany
taces a combination of foes who
know only one determination and
which are united with only one re
solution. Tenacity of purpose is
.t Teuton virtue, but tenac ity of pur
pose lias been the supreme attribute
of the British. Her foes are not
fastened upon her flanks merely in
ilie eagerness to satisfy the vengd
! ful feelings of a vain empress or a
! king’s concubine. Their aim is to
j shatter a world menace to their eom
I m ri e, to their institutions to what
They conceive is their liberty. And
.is tar as the resources of either
side are concerned, remembering
•that the- future genrations arc- to be j
pledged to pay for the war. this war!
appears only just beginning.
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