English Translation

22 - 19 - Costs. These were passed on by the English to the other states with which England was trading. Energically England sees that no other countries displace it from this monopcl position. Characteristic for this is the fight against the Prussian competition in cloth trading. Fried-rich wilhelm I. During the English-Russian tension it had succeeded to get into a good deal with Russia by supplying the Russian army with Prussian cloths, hardly England had recognized the seriousness of this situation when it proceeded with the sharpest dumping. Prices for English cloths were ruthlessly lowered so far that Prussia had to give up the fight. As soon as Peeußen had lost the Russian market, the English cloth prices were put up again to the same height as they had previously had the Prussian goods.1 On the commercial contract of 1734 it comes out - again after repeated retreats of the English, which, according to a word of the Russian envoy in London, Prince Edgeir, of 1737 "securing their own interests of general 1742 under the Empress Elizabeth to the first alliance between England and Russia. England, through its opposition to Peter the Great, had succeeded in preventing an overly strong growth of Russian power to dominate the Baltic Sea. Therefore, there was no reason for an open hostility. On the contrary, with the economic concerns just outlined, which made a close cooperation between both countries desirable, political reasons were also involved, England was already in the middle of the decisive struggle with France for supremacy and needed allies, who could send it against its opponent in Europe, while it even fought in the non-European war scenes, Peter the Great had, as already Ivan IV., in vain after 1) Kulišer, p. 194.2) Notovic, p.73.