rmies in
the empire exceeded three millions sterling annually; and this enormous
expense, without being able to protect Hanover, only served to keep the
war alive in different parts of Germany. Had one half of this sum
been employed in augmenting and extending the naval armaments of Great
Britain, and in reinforcing her troops in America and the West Indies,
France would have been, at this day, deprived of all her sugar colonies,
as well as of her settlements on the continent of America; and being
absolutely cut off from these sources of wealth, would have found it
impracticable either to gratify her subsidiaries, or to maintain such
formidable armies to annoy her neighbours. These are truths, which will
appear to the conviction of the public, when the illusive spells of
unsubstantial victory are dissolved, and time shall have dispersed
the thick mists of prejudice which now seem to darken and perplex the
understanding of the people.

{GEORGE II. 1727-1760}

NEW TREATY WITH THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

The conduct of the administration was so agreeable to both houses of
parliament, that in their address to the throne they expressed their
unshaken zeal and loyalty to his majesty's person, congratulated him on
the success of his arms, and promised to support his measures and allies
with steadiness and alacrity. *

* That the charge of disaffection to the king's person,
which was so loudly trumpeted by former ministers and their
adherents against those who had honesty and courage to
oppose the measures of a weak and corrupt administration,
was entirely false and without foundation, appeared at this
juncture, when in the midst of a cruel, oppressive, and
continental war, maintained by the blood and treasure of
Great Britain, all opposition ceased in both houses of
parliament. The addresses of thanks to his majesty, which
are always dictated by the immediate servants of the crown,
were unanimously adopted in both houses, and not only
couched in terms of applause, but even inflated with
expressions of rapture and admiration. They declared
themselves sensible, that the operations of Great Britain,
both by sea and in America, had received the most evident
and important advantages from the maintenance of the war in
Germany, and seemed eager to espouse any measure that might
gratify the inclination of the sovereign.

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