ABSTRACT
Count Bernstorff commences his Memoir by acknowledging the danger of the encreasing discontent of the German People, and shews the necessity of combating this evil, which he states is to be done by pursuing a system conformable to the general good, so as to conciliate the enlightened and possessing, and give them an interest to rally round their Sovereign in time of domestic danger or foreign War. The second Memoir discusses at length that which Count Bernstorff only hints at, which is the means of extending the Power of Prussia over Germany, in fact of obtaining the ascendancy formerly in the hands of Austria, which has been declining since the Treaty of Vienna, and now depends solely upon the influence of Tradition. Prussia, in order to make herself the directing Power of Germany must guide and govern publick opinions, and manage the machinery of the Commercial Union.
