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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
, and one or two others received payments in cash and annuities. A little increase of the money to be paid, said Bestuchef, would 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, decla