Contents and List of Citations xxi PAGE 362. Frederick declares that he is growing old 325 CEuvres, XIX, 353; Schilling, 286^. VII. Frederick the Great's Estimate of German Liter- ature 363. Frederick declares that Germany has no great writers . 326 "De la litterature allemande" (1780), Schilling, 297 sqq. VIII. The First Partition of Poland 364. Letter of Maria Theresa on the partition of Poland . 328 Arneth, Brief e der Kaiser in Maria Theresa an ihre Kinder und Freunde, I, 151 CHAPTER XXXIII — THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND I. The English go Northeast in Search of Trade 365. The English set out toward Russia 331 " The New Navigation and Discovery of the Kingdom of Moscovy by the Northeast in the year 1553," from Hak- luyt's Voyages (as above, No. 346), 9 sqq. II. How the English got a Foothold in India 366. Letter of the Great Mogul to James I (1614) .... 333 The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India ; ed. Foster, P- 557 367. A Frenchman's account of the troubles between the Dutch and English traders 334 East India Company's Records, VI, 206 sq. III. Condition of India before the English Conquest 368. India under the later Moguls 336 Pinkerton, General Collection of the Best and most Interesting Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII, 60, 133, 135 sqq. 369. Aurangzeb forecasts the dissolution of the Mogul's empire 338 Elliot, History of India, VII, 562 IV. How England established her Control in India 370. The " Black Hole " of Calcutta 339 Orme, A History of the Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan (London, 1778), Vol. II, sec. i, 74 sqq. 371. Clive's account of his victory at Plassey 342 Malcolm, The Life of Robert Lord Clive, I, 264
