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 sent the Earl of Chesterfield his Ambassador to the Emperor Frederick; the Duke of Marlborough to the King of Sicily; and Mr. Wharton to the states of Swisserland. A treaty was soon signed between himself, the Emperor, and his Sicilian Majesty; in opposition to the alliance: Frederick engaged to attack the Russians, if they entered the Empire, and George took ten thousand of his men into his pay; the King of Sicily furnished him with ten thousand more at his own expence, on condition, that they should be recalled if that Monarch was attacked himself, and that the King of Great-Britain should send an army of twenty thousand men to his assistance: moreover, George hired eight thousand Bavarians, and six thousand Swiss infantry. Such were the measures this vigilant Monarch took to repulse the attempts of his powerful enemies.