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 his brother—at the hostile Court of Prussia. Frederick the Great, overhearing the pious ejaculation with which the Englishman greeted the arrival of a satisfactory dispatch from Sir Eyre Coote, said to him acidly: "I was not aware that God was also one of your allies." "The only one, Sire, whom we do not finance," was the lightning retort.

One more circumstance deserves to be noted as both familiar and consolatory. Napoleon's most formidable purpose was to empty England's purse by waging a commercial war. When he forbade her exports to the countries he fancied he controlled, he was promised implicit obedience. In March, 1801, Lord Minto wrote serenely to Lord Grenville: "The trade of England and the necessities of the Continent will find each other out in defiance of prohibitions. Not one of the confederates will be true to the gang, and I have