[25] The King would have hindered Lord George from going to Germany; but he preferred it to expeditions, and would go; and did, even without kissing the King’s hand. CHAPTER VI. History of Dr. Hensey--Election of a Pope--Cardinal Cavalchini excluded--Rezzonico elected--Taking of Cherbourg, and Cape Breton--Other Events in America--Disastrous Affair at St. Cas--The King of Prussia defeats the Russians at Custrin--Disputes with Holland--Assassination of the King of Portugal--Attributed to the Jesuits--The Court of Lisbon--Discovery of the Criminals--Their Punishment--The English Army in Germany--Prince Ferdinand and Lord George Sackville--Defeat of the King of Prussia at Hochkirchen--Meeting of Parliament--Addresses and Votes of Thanks--Army voted--Affair of Dr. Shebbeare--Pitt’s behaviour to Conway--Disgrace of Cardinal de Bernis--Character of the Author--His Impartiality. During these operations, the Parliament of England rose; and nothing worth notice happened but the conviction of Dr. Hensey, a poor physician, who had been taken up in the preceding year for a treasonable correspondence. It appeared that he was a pensioner of France, who gave him but an hundred a year, and thought it too much; threatening, in answer to his repeated solicitations of invasion, that they would withdraw their allowance, unless he found means of giving them more material intelligence. The threat had such effect, that he gave them the first notice of the design on Rochfort. How he obtained it I know not; but his close connexion with D’Abreu, the Spanish Resident, whose physician he was, and who visited him often in prison, and obtained his pardon on the very morning that he was going to execution, made it probable that he was only a tool of that Minister, known to wish ill to England.