The life and letters of James Wolfe . agonism, joined to his resolution to acceptno place save that of Secretary of War, kept Pitt out of it was soon seen that the Pelhams had no real intention ofsubverting the Hanoverian policy which the King had so much atheart. A new subsidy to Saxony of ^£150,000 was even decreed,and in January 1745, a Quadruple Alliance was concluded betweenGreat Britain, Holland, Austria and Saxony. Nor was this all;besides other and minor subsidies half-a-million sterling was votedto the Queen of Hungary. This advance of ^^200,000 on herprevious subsidy was d
The life and letters of James Wolfe . agonism, joined to his resolution to acceptno place save that of Secretary of War, kept Pitt out of it was soon seen that the Pelhams had no real intention ofsubverting the Hanoverian policy which the King had so much atheart. A new subsidy to Saxony of ^£150,000 was even decreed,and in January 1745, a Quadruple Alliance was concluded betweenGreat Britain, Holland, Austria and Saxony. Nor was this all;besides other and minor subsidies half-a-million sterling was votedto the Queen of Hungary. This advance of ^^200,000 on herprevious subsidy was designed to enable her to pay the Hanoverianand Hessian mercenaries, who hitherto had been paid direct out ofthe British Exchequer! Thus the popular clamour was quietedfor a twelvemonth, when, stirring events having intervened at home,18,000 Hanoverians were again taken into British pay. This timePitt the patriot, but also Pitt the politician, did not antagonizethe measure so adroitly concerted between his friends and WOLFE A portrait by Gainahorovjih, fror,i siv fchS ,iia<!r at Bath, ITJS. In the pnsfsninii of the Corporation oj Mandutitcr IVAIDE-DE-CAMP AT CULLODEN In April 1745, Captain Wolfe was still at Ghent and fightingin Flanders was resumed. On the 10th of that month the newcommander of the British and Allied forces arrived in , Duke of Cumberland, was then only just entering thetwenty-fourth year of his age. The mere circumstance of itsbeing possible for a youth of his years, even with all the prestigewhich attaches to a prince of the blood, to be entrusted withthe supreme command of 50,000 troops forcibly illustrates thecharacter of contemporary warfare and constitutional ideas. True,there was a check on Cumberlands motions in the person of theAustrian general, Marshal Konigsegg, who had the veto the other hand he possessed, as has already been hinted, veryconsiderable military qualifica
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