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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Dr. Musgrave testified before a society in London, revealing secret payments totaling 1,000,000l. to British figures including Lord Bute, Mr. Fox, and mistresses of an unpopular lord before the Peace of Versailles, remitted from a Paris banker known to Lord Halifax.
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When Dr. Musgrave appeared before a certain society, the president informed him that he need only answer to such questions as he liked, and that no person had a right to compel him to make any answers which were repugnant to his feelings. The Dr. with clearness and firmness answered, he came there with intention to declare all he knew; and spoke much to this purport: That before the peace of Versailles was concluded, the sum of 500,000l. was paid to the mistresses of an unpopular Lord; 250,000l. to Lord Bute, and 250,000l. to Mr. Fox; that these sums were remitted from a certain banker in Paris, of which Lord Halifax knew.
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London
Event Date
March 10
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revelation of secret payments totaling 1,000,000l. before the peace of versailles
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Dr. Musgrave appeared before a society and declared all he knew, stating that before the peace of Versailles, 500,000l. was paid to the mistresses of an unpopular Lord, 250,000l. to Lord Bute, and 250,000l. to Mr. Fox; these sums were remitted from a banker in Paris, known to Lord Halifax.