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47 - 44 should accept the note with the greatest distrust. "Only for this reason has England so suddenly taken these powerful decisions", says the Prussian minister Hertzberg in a memorandum for King Friedrich Wilhelm II, "because the skillful Mr.Ewart (the English envoy. in Berlin) his government proved that in this way England could take possession of the Levant Trade and Polish Trade, make itself independent of Russia and let Prussia be weakened in this war in such a way that it remains forever dependent on England and subordinated to it." And the frondating prince Henry strongly expresses himself against the "many-praised islanders", "the most arrogant allies throughout Europe, who are always greedy to follow only their own interest, and ready to follow that of their so-called. But while the Prussian government is still discussing these proposals, the whole excitement of the Russian armament of 179l passes by like the Hornberg shooting. A fierce parliamentary debate is based on the government proposal, in which "the native aversion of the Englishman to unnecessary anstriking Pitt, who wanted the war against Russia but did not dare to do so fully, is forced by Fox by a brilliant speech to distract. The parliamentary opposition, in cooperation with the Russia Company and the Russian ambassador Count Semen Vorontsov, defeats the government. 3) Vorontsov explains this success in a letter to his brother on July 3rd, 1979, by characterizing the English nation in such a way: "She takes on a war of glad heart, but only if she is angry or if she believes herself offended in her honor." 4) The words of the angry Pitt about his countrymen sound to Ewart: "You see, they let themselves in for a war out of passion, but it is impossible to make them understand a case in which the most important interests of the country are at stake." 5) The Prussian 1) Gerhard S.369 u.371. 3) Aleksandrenko 1, pp.66-67; Gerhard S.355.