166 political progrefs of Britain. Sune 6- 
thousand pounds for the marriage portion of the prin- 
cefs of Denmark, one of his majesty’s daughters ; 
five hundred and twenty-four thousand pounds.were 
also voted on account of the extraordinary charges 
of the troops serving in Flanders, incurred in the 
years 1742 and 1743, and not provided for by par- 
liament; and az hundred thousand pounds, upon ac~- 
count of the extraordinary charge of forage, waggon 
money, and other expences incurred, or to be incur- 
red, for the service of the year1744*. It was about 
the end of that year, that we entered into a treaty 
with the king of Poland, by which we engaged to pay 
him an annual subsidy of an hundred thousand pounds. 
** A general discontent,” says Frederick, ‘‘ had 
‘¢ obliged the king of England to part with his mi- 
“6 nister lord Carteret, who had entered into alt his 
‘¢ views ; and who, under the appearance of national 
*¢ good, concealed every step GrorGE made in fa-~ 
‘* vour of his electorate +.””. There was a change of 
men but not of measures. The duke of Bedford, 
the earl of Chesterfield, and the pzous lord Littleton, 
in spite of their violent speeches, accepted, as well as 
others, a {hare in the plunder of their country.— 
Chesterfield set out for the Hague, with the the pal- 
try title of ambafsador extraordinary, ‘* to persuade, 
** if pofsible, the States General to enter heartily in- 
“‘ tothe wart ;” into that very war, which he had, a 
thousand times over, declared to be umjust and unne- 
cefsary. Behold an independent peer of Britain de~ 
® Scots Magazine for 1744. 
+ History of my own times, Chap. xi. T Smollet, 
