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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
e go between of the British ministry, made unlimited offers of subsidies for some of his battalions, the patriot prince called his ministers to a conference, and, supported by the unanimous advice of those present, on the third of December, he answered: There are, in general, many weighty reasons why I cannot yield my consent to deliver troops into foreign service and pay; and it is minuted on the draft that Serenissimus himself took charge of posting the letter. My friend, the late Baron von Watzdorf, gave me copies of the letter of Count Schaumburg-Lippe to the duke, 26 Nov., 1777; the minute of the consultation of the duke with his ministers; the answer of Carl August, 3 Dec., 1777, and also of the earlier papers. The signature of Goethe, the youngest minister of Chap. III.} Weimar, is wanting to the draft, for he was absent on a winter trip to the Hartz Mountains; but that his heart was with his colleagues appears from his writing simultaneously from Goslar: How am I again