William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . to be the naturalassertor of Germanic liberties against the House ofAustria — a prophecy fulfilled on the field of Sad-owa. Pitt described the desertion of Prussia asinsidious, tricking, base, and treacherous. Bute de-fended it on the technical ground that Great Brit-ain only bound herself to pay the subsidy year byyear and was not pledged to continue it indefinitely,and also argued that as by the death of Elizabeth,Russia had become first friendly to Prussia, and onthe accession of Catherine neutral
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . to be the naturalassertor of Germanic liberties against the House ofAustria — a prophecy fulfilled on the field of Sad-owa. Pitt described the desertion of Prussia asinsidious, tricking, base, and treacherous. Bute de-fended it on the technical ground that Great Brit-ain only bound herself to pay the subsidy year byyear and was not pledged to continue it indefinitely,and also argued that as by the death of Elizabeth,Russia had become first friendly to Prussia, and onthe accession of Catherine neutral, the situation wasaltogether changed.^ But the ungenerous characterof his policy towards an ally who had suffered somuch could not be concealed, and Frederick nevertrusted Great Britain again. Pitt left the Houseafter his speech and was again loudly cheered by thecrowd in the lobby. When the House divided, 319approved the peace and only sixty-five voted in the * Butes defence may be read in his dispatch to Mitchell (May 26,1762): Bissets Memoirs of Sir Andrew Mitchell {y^^o)^ ii., Copyright AUGUSTA, PRINCESS OF WALES. FROM THE PAINTING BY J. VAN LOO. Gibbings & Co. 1765] The Peace of Paris. 209 minority. So great was the power of Fox and theTreasury. *The Ministers, wrote Walpole, or-dered that the numbers on the question should beprinted—had they printed the names too, the worldwould have known the names of the sixty-five thatwere not bribed. Now, said the Princess Dow-ager, my son is King of England. The remainder of the session Avas very stormy,owing to the incapacity of Sir Francis Dashwood,the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The main featureof his financial measures was the tax on cider, whichhe is said to have adopted because he could not un-derstand any of the others that were explained tohim by the officials. This raised a great outcry inthe western counties, and was more dangerous tothe Ministry than the peace itself. Together withthis a storm of angry feeling
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