mpian
battery which, in the East and in the West, had already smitten down all
Lallys and Montcalms; and had force already massed there, rendering your
Havanas and Manillas easy for you. For which, indeed, you do not seem
to care much; rather seem to be embarrassed with them, in your eagerness
for Peace and a lazy life!"--Manilla was a beautiful work; [A JOURNAL
OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES IN THE EXPEDITION TO MANILLA
(_London Gazette,_ April 19th, 1763; _Gentleman's Magazine,_ xxxiii.
171 et seq.). Written by Colonel or Brigadier General Draper (suggester,
contriver and performer of the Enterprise; an excellent Indian Officer,
of great merit with his pen as well,--Bully JUNIUS'S Correspondent
afterwards).] but the Manilla Ransom; a million sterling, half of it
in bills,--which the Spaniards, on no pretext at all but the
disagreeableness, refused to pay! Havana, though victorious, cost a good
many men: was thought to be but badly managed. "What to do with it?"
said Bute, at the Peace: "Give us Florida in lieu of it",--which proved
of little benefit to Bute. Enough, enough of Bute and his performances.

Pitt being gone, Friedrich's English Subsidy lags: this time Friedrich
concludes it is cut off;--silent on the subject; no words will express
one's thoughts on it. Not till April 9th has poor Mitchell the sad
errand of announcing formally That such are our pressures, Portuguese
War and other, we cannot afford it farther. Answered by I know not what
kind of glance from Friedrich; answered, I find, by words few or none
from the forsaken King: "Good; that too was wanting," thought the proud
soul: "Keep your coin, since you so need it; I have still copper, and my
sword!" The alloy this Year became as 3 to 1:--what other remedy?

From the same cause, I doubt not, this Year, for the first time in human
memory, came that complete abeyance of the Gift-moneys (DOUCEUR-GELDER),
which are become a standing expectation, quasi-right, and necessary item
of support to every Prussian Officer, from a Lieutenant upwards: not a
word, in the least official, said of them this Year; still less a penny
of them actually forthcoming to a wornout expectant Army. One of the
greatest sins charged upon Friedrich by Prussian or Prussian-Military
public opinion: not to be excused at all;--Prussian-Military and even
Prussian-Civil opinion having a strange persuasion that this King has
boundless supply of money, and only out of perversity