England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . ltar, in order to ensure to himself Hanover atthe end of the contest, but the wily King of Spain ismade to reply, JNIost Christian Brother, I will re-cover Gibraltar, establish my right to the fishery, butas to your conquest of Hanover, I would not venturean ounce of logwood to it. The King of Spain is,however, himself a victim, and a personage describedas The sure gamester Minheer Trickall, a Dutchpolitician, with his pocketsfull of ducats and louis-d^or (to shew his cunningand the profit h
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . ltar, in order to ensure to himself Hanover atthe end of the contest, but the wily King of Spain ismade to reply, JNIost Christian Brother, I will re-cover Gibraltar, establish my right to the fishery, butas to your conquest of Hanover, I would not venturean ounce of logwood to it. The King of Spain is,however, himself a victim, and a personage describedas The sure gamester Minheer Trickall, a Dutchpolitician, with his pocketsfull of ducats and louis-d^or (to shew his cunningand the profit he was mak-ing out of the war), is re-presented picking the Kingof Spains pocket of a bagof dollars, with the reflec-tion, Let them play on,mine is the sure game —Minheer shall win from allwithout hazard. Behindhim appears the Genoese,reduced to distress by hisexertions for the assistance of France; and at theextreme left, the devil is peeping in, and exulting overthe scene thus laid open to his \iew. The Kings first speech to parliament had, indeed,expressed the old sentiment of attachment to the. DUTCH POLICY. 400 BUTE PRIME MINISTER. [l762. King of Prussia, and sympathy in his cause, which wasstill that of England. But as soon as Pitt was got ridof, these sentiments were rapidly modified, and Buteopenly declared the intention of deserting our Germanallies in the same manner that they had been de-serted by the Tory ministry of Queen Anne. Someof the old ministry were, however, opposed to thisdishonourable conduct; and at length, on the 26th ofMay, 1762, the Duke of Newcastle, the nominal headof the administration, indignant at the intended treat-ment of the King of Prussia, and not till it seemsthat he had received broad hints that he was no longeracceptable, resigned his office, upon which, the sameday, Lord Bute was made first Lord of the was a change which had evidently been contem-plated for some time. Lord Egremont had beenappointed to the place of Secreta
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