Friedrich among them: 'What a Carteret!' The Landgraf turned away
with indignation from perfidious England; and began forming quite
opposite connections. 'You shall not even have my hired 6,000, you
perfidious! Thing done with such dexterity of art, too!' thought
the Landgraf,--and continued to think, till evidence turned up,
after many months. [CARTERET PAPERS (in British Museum), Additional
MSS. No. 22,529 (May, 1743-January, 1745); in No. 22,527 (January-
September, 1742) are other Landgraf-Wilhelm pieces of
Correspondence.] This was Friedrich's opinion too,-- permanently, I
believe;--and that of nearly all the world, till the thing and the
Doer of the thing were contemptuously forgotten. A piece of
Machiavelism on the part of Carteret and perfidious Albion,--equal
in refined cunning to that of the Ships with foul bottom, which
vanished from Cadiz two years ago, and were admired with a shudder
by Continental mankind who could see into millstones!

"This is the second stroke of Machiavellian Art by those Islanders,
in their truly vulpine method. Stroke of Art important for this
History; and worth the attention of English readers,--being almost
of pathetic nature, when one comes to understand it! Carteret, for
this Hanau business, had clangor enough to undergo, poor man, from
Germans and from English; which was wholly unjust. 'His trade,' say
the English--(or used to say, till they forgot their considerable
Carteret altogether)--'was that of rising in the world by feeding
the mad German humors of little George; a miserable trade.' Yes, my
friends;--but it was not quite Carteret's, if you will please to
examine! And none say, Carteret did not do his trade, whatever it
was, with a certain greatness,--at least till habits of drinking
rather took him, Poor man: impatient, probably, of such fortune
long continued! For he was thrown out, next Session of Parliament,