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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ille; and Newcastle did not recover courage till in November Fox consented to accept the seals and defend the treaties. At the great debate, Walpole's Memoires of George I., i. 418. Pitt taunted the majority, which was as three to one, with corruption and readiness to follow their leader; and, indirectly attacking the subjection of the throne to aristocratic influence, declared that the king owes a supreme service to his people. Pitt was dismissed from office, and George Grenville, with Legge, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Charles Townshend, went into retirement in his company. Having nothing to rely on but the corrupt influence of the aristocracy, Newcastle now sought to unite it, by a distribution of pensions and places. This is the moment when Hillsborough first obtained an employment, when the family of Yorke named Soame Jenyns for a Lord of Trade; and when Bed- chap IX.} 1755. ford was propitiated by the appointment of his partisan, Richard Rigby, to a seat at t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ommissioned to form a ministry. In this he was aided by the whole influence of Leicester House; he found the Earl of Bute transcendingly obliging; and from the young heir to the throne, expressions were repeated, so decisive of determined purposes of favor, in the present or chap. X.} 1756. any future day, that his own lively imagination could not have suggested a wish beyond them. Chatham Corr. i. 191, 192. For the chief of the Treasury Board, he selected the Duke of Devonshire, with Legge as chancellor. Temple presided over the Admiralty. George Grenville was made treasurer of the navy. To Charles Townshend, who could ill brook a superior, and who hated Pitt, was offered a useless place, neither ministerial nor active; and his resentment at the disdainful slight was not suppressed, till his elder brother and Bute interceded, and at last the name of the Prince of Wales was used. Thus began the political connections of Charles Townshend with George the Third, and they were
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
le, who falsely pretended to have spoken favorably of him to the king; and now, in defiance of Bedford and Newcastle, and the antipathy of the king, he is become the foremost man in England, received into the ministry as its guide, because he alone was the choice of the people, and, by his greatness of soul and commanding eloquence, can restore the state. On his dismissal in April, no man had the hardihood to accept his place. A storm of indignation burst from the nation. To Pitt and to Legge, who had also opposed the Russian treaty, London, with many other cities, voted its freedom; unexampled discontent pervaded the country. Newcastle, whose pusillanimity exceeded his vanity, dared not attempt forming a ministry; and by declining to do so, renewed his confession that the government of Great Britain chap. XII.} 1757. could no longer be administered by a party, which had for its principle to fight up alike against the king and against the people. The inebriate Granville, the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
ight then come in without appearing to displace any one. But this was too foolish a scheme to be approved of. It is very easy, thought the Favorite, in February, to make the Duke of Newcastle resign, but who is to take it? He had not courage to aim at once at the highest station. On the nineteenth of March, 1761, as the session March closed, the eleventh parliament of Great Britain was dissolved. On the same day, to gratify a grudge of George the Third, conceived when Prince of Wales, Legge, the chancellor of the exchequer, was dismissed. When it was known that that officer was to be turned out, George Grenville, who piqued himself on his knowledge of finance, expressed to his brother-in- chap. XVII.} 1761. March law his desire of the vacant place; but Pitt took no notice of his wishes, upon which a coolness commenced between them. Fortune, exclaimed Barrington, on receiving the appointment, may at last make me pope. I am equally fit to be at the head of the Church as of