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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ld be extremely agreeable. Fifty thousand pounds for the private purse of the empress would put her and her court at his majesty's management. Sir Hanbury Williams to Holdernesse, 9 and 11 August, 1755. So venal were the princes of that day, that the aid of the Russian empire was for sale; and the empress herself in the market at fifty thousand pounds. Friedrich von Raumer's Konig Friedrich II. und seine Zeit, 294. At the same time an extravagant treaty for subsidies was framed with Hesse, Jenkinson's Collection of Treaties, III. 30-53. whose Elector bargained at high chap. IX.} 1755. rates for the use of his troops for the defence of Han over, or if needed, of the British dominions. Newcastle was sure of his majority in the House of Commons; but William Pitt, though poor, and recently married, and holding the lucrative office of paymaster, declared his purpose of opposing the treaty with Russia. Newcastle sent for Pitt, offered him kind words from his sovereign, influe
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
wing winter, the alliances against him were completed; and not Saxony only, and Austria, with Hungary, but the German empire, half the German States,—Russia, not from motives of public policy, but from a woman's caprice,—Sweden, subservient to the Catholic powers through the degrading ascendency of its nobility,—France, as the ally of Austria,—more than half the continent, took up arms against Frederic, who had no allies in the South, or East, or North, and in the West none but Hanover, with Hesse and Brunswick. And as for Spain, not even the offer from Pitt of the conditional restitution of Gibraltar, Pitt to Keene, 23 Aug., 1757. Chat. Corr., i. 249. and the evacuation of all English establishments on the Mosquito Shore and in the Bay of Honduras, nor any consideration what- chap. XII.} 1757. ever, could move the Catholic monarch to draw the sword in favor of heretics. Keene to Pitt, 26 Sept., 1757. Chat. Corr., i. 271. As spring opened, Frederic hastened to meet the