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Updated: May 18, 2025
Germain is a difficult task, as he had innumerable aliases, and often totally disappeared for months together. In Venice, he was known as the Count de Bellamare; at Pisa, as the Chevalier de Schoening; at Milan, as the Chevalier Welldone; at Genoa, as the Count Soltikow, etc.
It seems that, instead of the four hundred thousand rixdollars which he had demanded, he consented to accept one hundred thousand and the Garter. His prime minister Schoening, the most covetous and perfidious of mankind, was secured by a pension. For the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, William, not without difficulty, procured the long desired title of Elector of Hanover.
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