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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 57: (search)
sia, himself half crazed, living very rarely within his own dominions, keeping up sixteen recruiting stations outside of them, in a letter which from the confusion in his style and in his expressions, could not be translated, made to England the offer of a regiment of six hundred and twenty-seven men. He also wrote directly to George the Third; but his manner was so strange that the letter was not thought fit to be delivered. During that year nothing came of his proposal. The elector of Bavaria expressed to Elliot, the Chap. LVII.} British minister at Ratisbon, his very strong desire of a subsidiary engagement: but little heed was given to this overture, for the Bavarian troops were among the worst in Germany; and besides, the court was so sold to Austria and France that the prince himself thought proper to warn the British diplomatist against speaking of the proposal to his own ministers. On the last day of February, the treaties with Brunswick and Hesse were considered in th