plenty of cash:--is it my Cause, then, or his Majesty's and
Liberty's?' Posterity, in modern England, vainly endeavors to
conceive this phenomenon; yet sees it to be undeniable.

"And so there is a Treaty of Worms got concocted, after infinite
effort on the part of Carteret, Robinson too laboring and steaming
in Vienna with boilers like to burst; and George gets it signed
13th September [already signed while Friedrich was looking into
Seckendorf and Wembdingen, if Friedrich had known it]: to this
effect, That Charles Emanuel should have annually, down on the
nail, a handsome increase of Subsidy (200,000 pounds instead of
150,000 pounds) from England, and ultimately beyond doubt some
thinnish specified slices from the Lombard parts; and shall proceed
fighting for, not against; English Fleet co-operating, English
Purse ditto, regardless of expense; with other fit particulars, as
formerly. [Scholl, ii. 330-335; Adelung, iii. B, 222-226; Coxe,
iii. 296.] Maria Theresa, very angry, looks upon herself as a
martyr, nobly complying to suffer for the whim of England;
and Robinson has had such labors and endurances, a steam-engine on
the point of bursting is but an emblem of him. It was a necessary
Treaty for the Cause of Liberty, as George and Carteret, and all
English Ministries and Ministers (Diana of Newcastle very
specially, in spite of Pitt and a junior Opposition Party) viewed
Liberty. It was Love's last shift,--Diana having intervened upon
those magnificent 'Conferences of Hanau' lately! Nevertheless
Carteret was thrown out, next year, on account of it. And Posterity
is unable to conceive it; and asks always of little George, What,
in the name of wonder, had he to do there, fighting for or against,
and hiring everybody he met to fight against everybody? A King with
eyes somewhat A FLEUR-DE-TETE: yes; and let us say, his Nation,