This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... in which he knew that England's support would at best be only platonic. Moreover he needed peace to recover from the effects of the late devastating war, and had no mind to be dragged into quarrels with France and Spain over a Manila ransom or some barren islands in the Southern Pacific. With Eussia it was the same ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... in which he knew that England's support would at best be only platonic. Moreover he needed peace to recover from the effects of the late devastating war, and had no mind to be dragged into quarrels with France and Spain over a Manila ransom or some barren islands in the Southern Pacific. With Eussia it was the same story. Here also Pitt had sounded the ground in a letter written in 1764 ' from an almost forgotten corner of Europe' to the Eussian ambassador, Count Woronzow. In this letter he had spoken of the courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg as 'the asylum of Europe against the united ambitions of the Bourbon and Austrian houses.'1 But the bait had not taken. Catherine was more profuse than Frederic in expressions of goodwill, but refused to enter into a treaty of alliance with England except on the terms of English support in a war against Turkey and English subsidies for the promotion of Eussian interests in Sweden and Poland. This did not suit Chatham at all. He had laid it down as a cardinal principle not to pay subsidies in time of peace, and would not buy Eussia's support by helping her designs on Turkey, with whom England was on excellent terms. 1 Michel's report to Frederic on this conversation is contained in his dispatch of Novembers, 1763. (Prussian Archives--Eep. 96--Grofs-Britannien 33 H.) Vol. n. Q By November 1766 Chatham had been forced to the conviction that his most cherished project of a northern alliance was unattainable, and he had to leave England as isolated as he found her. He was to some extent paying the penalty for Bute's desertion of Frederic in 1762, a desertion which coloured Prussian feelings towards England down to Bismarck's day: but even without this incentive to Frederic's ill-humour it is doubtful if Chatham would have...
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