George I and the Northern War: A Study of British-Hanoverian Policy in the North of Europe in the Years 1709 to 1721

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1909 - 516 Seiten
 

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Seite 361 - ... scales of the North are in your hand. ... If the Tsar refuses the King's mediation, as he probably will, a mark of which will be his continuing hostility against Sweden, I hope you will by force of arms bring him to reason and destroy that fleet which will disturb the world. . . . God bless you, Sir John Norris. All honest and good men will give you just applause. Many persons will envy you and nobody will dare say a word against you.
Seite 214 - And you are to joyn in all such operations with the Danes as may most effectually annoy the Swedish fleet, and prevent their country from being supplied with provisions...
Seite 9 - ... in the Baltick should by any accident miscarry, it will be impossible for His Majesty to fitt out any ships of war for the next year, by which means the whole navy...
Seite 101 - British treasury by the Jacobite rebellion. (He could not, of course, confess the truth, that British money was not available to finance operations against Sweden.) He went on to say that as king he was not at war with Sweden, and as elector would perform the engagements of his treaties. More could not be required of him than the eight men-of-war promised. The money wanted must come from the tsar. He agreed that the best way to prevent a Swedish descent on Denmark was to make a counterinvasion. A...
Seite 68 - Edict, which contains several Innovations that no Treaty, Law, or Reason can justify. We can look upon such Proceedings as Piratical only, and Commissions founded upon such Orders can be calculated for no other purpose, but to set the neutral Powers at Defiance, who are concerned in the Commerce of the...
Seite 234 - ... Count G-yllenborg and Baron Gortz, is willing this mediation should extend to all other matters in dispute between the crowns of Great Britain and Sweden, which his Majesty thinks may be a means of preparing the way to his mediation in the peace of the North. Nevertheless, since his Majesty cannot act in this particular, but in concert with the rest of the Allies of the empire, he is of opinion, that the only method which the Court of France can make use of, in order to carry this point, will...
Seite 7 - ... which may at the same time diminish the wealth and treasure of the nation, to which no addition can be made by trade but what is gained from foreigners and foreign countries ; and that such an overbalance has not been made by any circulation in trade or exchange, so as to make such trades advantageous for this nation, as they have of late been carried on ; we have in our...
Seite 333 - Sea. This is a consideration of such importance to the commerce of Our subjects and even to their safety, which could not be so well provided for without the naval stores we draw from those parts, that you are to labour this point with the utmost dexterity and application.
Seite 178 - An English Merchant's remarks upon a scandalous Jacobite paper published in the "Post-Boy" under the name of " A Memorial presented to the Chancery of Sweden by the Resident of Great Britain " (the French version, Lamberty, IX.
Seite 361 - ... close of the Great Northern War this polite hyperbole had turned into an ominously true prophecy in the eyes of many British, and Hanoverian, statesmen. For them the balance of power in northern Germany and the Baltic had been all too rudely upset, and Peter's new creation was in secret denounced as "that fleet which will disturb the world whilst it is steered by ambition and revenge.

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