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'The peace of 1763,' continued he, 'was carried through and
approved by a pecuniary distribution. Nothing else could have
surmounted the difficulty. I was myself the channel through
which the money passed. With my own hand I secured above one
hundred and twenty votes on that most important question
to ministers. Eighty thousand pounds were set apart for the
purpose. Forty members of the House of Commons received from
me a thousand pounds each. To eighty others, I paid five
hundred pounds apiece.'"
DAVID STEWARD.
Godalming, March 19. 1850.
_Shipster_.--_Gourders_.--As no satisfactory elucidation of the
question propounded by Mr. Fox (No. 14. p. 216.) has been suggested,
and I think he will scarcely accept the conjecture of "F.C.B.,"
however ingenious (No. 21. p. 339.), I am tempted to offer a note
on the business or calling of a shipster. It had, I believe, no
connection with nautical concerns; it did not designate a skipper (in
the Dutch use of the word) of the fair sex.
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