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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09

History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09

The parties proposed first and last, and rumored of in Newspapers and the idle brains of men, have been very many, —no limit to their numbers; it may be anybody: an intending purchaser, though but possessed of sixpence, is in a sense proprietor of the whole Fair! Through Schulenburg we heard his own account of them, last Autumn;—but the far noblest of the lot was hardly glanced at, or not at all, on that occasion. The Kaiser's eldest Daughter, sole heiress of Austria and these vast Pragmatic-Sanction operations; Archduchess Maria Theresa herself, —it is affirmed to have been Prince Eugene's often-expressed wish, That the Crown-Prince of Prussia should wed the future Empress

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