Excerpt from The Silesian Loan and Frederick the Great France, they entered into the Treaty of Westminster Of January 1756, a few months before the commence ment of the Seven Years' War. On this occasion the British Government, as an entirely separate transaction, agreed to pay Frederick a sum equal to about two-thirds of what he had claimed, on condition that he first removed the sequestration of the amount due to the bondholders. The affair aroused widespread interest at' the time. The British Government communicated ...
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Excerpt from The Silesian Loan and Frederick the Great France, they entered into the Treaty of Westminster Of January 1756, a few months before the commence ment of the Seven Years' War. On this occasion the British Government, as an entirely separate transaction, agreed to pay Frederick a sum equal to about two-thirds of what he had claimed, on condition that he first removed the sequestration of the amount due to the bondholders. The affair aroused widespread interest at' the time. The British Government communicated the documents to friendly Powers, and invited their intervention or assistance. France declined to put pressure on Frederick, and affected to take his side of the argument, although French prize-law was antagonistic to his pretensions. Holland tried to get something for herself out of the dispute. Austria replied that she was not on terms with Frederick, and wandered Off into recriminations about the Barrier Treaty. Russia was willing to lend troops against Frederick, 1f the necessity arose, but demanded an exorbitant price for her services. The Russian vice-chancellor hoped incidentally to fill his pockets. Spain declared herself in sympathy with England, but expressed no opinion as to the merits of the controversy. This cause c???lebre da droit des gens is mentioned in various historical works and treatises on international law, but the whole facts have never been correctly stated. The Gentleman's Magazine started Off with several inaccuracies, which were repeated by a succession of authors, until Carlyle took in hand to misrepresent them altogether. Opportunity has been taken in the following narrative to give some account of Legge's mission to Berlin in 1748 to propose a treaty of alliance, a transaction hardly mentioned by Carlyle. The documents which have been placed together in the Appendices have, with but one exception, never been printed before. They show how closely inter national politics and international law are connected with each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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