86 The Eighteenth Century (1714 -1815}

\Yilkes,520 and Miller takes a new look at the most dedicated
propagandist of them all for the cause of reform.521

(D) FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND WAR

A number of works that remind us that this was a century of
war and aggressive diplomacy stand far from the controversies.
Just before his lamented death, Horn fortunately embodied
his special knowledge in a comprehensive treatise.622 Earlier,
he had also demonstrated that for this century one may at last
speak of a proper diplomatic service.523 To this theme, Meyer
contributes a piece on the special case of Switzerland.52*
Studies of diplomatic relations deal, in chronological order,
with Russia, Sweden and Turkey at the start of the century;625
with the Netherlands, at about the same time;526 with Prussia
(Schlenke documents the influence of public opinion on foreign
policy, while Spencer defends George Ill's government against
the charge that it broke faith in xySs);527 with the economic

620 Ian R. Christie, Wilkes, Wyvill, and Reform. L: Macmillan: 1962.
Pp. xii, 247. Rev: EHR 79, 86if.

*21 Naomi C. Miller, *John Cartwright and radical parliamentary
reform, 1808-1819', EHR 83 (1968), 705-128.

M* D. B. Horn, Great Britain and Europe in the Eighteenth Century. O:
Clarendon: 1967. Pp. xi, 4x1. Rev: EHR 83, 848^; HJ 11, 59if.

*23 D. B. Horn, The British Diplomatic Service, 1689 - 77^. O: Claren-
don: 1961. Pp. xv, 324, Rev: EHR 77, 54ifF.

SZ4 Markus Meyer, Die dzplomatische Vertrettmg Englands in der Schweiz
in /& Jakrhwdert, 1689 - 1789. Basel: Helbing & Lichtcrhahn:
1952. Pp. 156,

M* L. A. Nikiforov, Russko anglijskie otnoschenija pri Pttre L Moscow:
1950. Pp. 277. German translation, Weimar, 1954, pp. 377. - Use
Jacob, Die Beziehungen Englands zu Ru$sland und zwr Turkei in den
Jahren ijiB-ijs?. Basel: Helbing & Lichterhahn: 1945. Pp. 159.
- John J. Murray, George /, the Baltic and the Whig Split of 1717. L:
Routledge: 1969, Pp. xv, 366. Rev: Hist 55, i25f.

m Ragnhild Hatton, Diplomatic Relations between Great Britain and the
Dtitek Republic, 1714 - 7721. L: East & West: 1950. Pp. 283.

527 Manfred Schlenke, England und das ffiderizianische Preussen, 1740 -
1763. Freiburg/Munich: Alber: 1963. Pp. 435. Rev: EHR 80,
3600*.-Frank Spencer, "The Anglo-Prussian breach of 1762, a
historical revision*, Hist 41 (1956), 100-12.