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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
easury Board, with the disposition of bishoprics, petty offices, and contracts, and the management of all the classes of venality. Almon's Biographical Aneodotes, III. 362 At that day, the good will of the people was, in England, the most uncertain tenure of office; for they had no chap. XII.} 1757. strength in parliament; their favorite held his high position at the sufferance of the aristocracy. I borrow, said Pitt, the Duke of Newcastle's majority to carry on the public business. Harris's Life of Hardwicke, III. 450. The new ministry kissed hands early in July, 1757. Sire, said the Secretary, give me your confidence, and I will deserve it. Deserve my confidence, replied the king, and you shall have it; Almon's Anecdotes, i. 229. and kept his word. All England applauded the Great Commoner's elevation. John Wilkes, Chatham Correspondence, i. 240. then just elected member of parliament, promised steady support to the measures of the ablest minister, as well as the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
d expensive; and silently abandoned the king of Prussia. Newcastle, who was directed to read it aloud, seemed to find it unexceptionable; and opportunely lowered his voice at the offensive parts, so that his words could not be distinguished. Is there any thing wrong in point of form? asked the king; and then dismissed his ministers; and the declaration was projected, executed and entered in the council books without any previous notice to Pitt. The Great Commoner was extremely hurt; Harris's Hardwicke, III. 215. he discerned what was plotting; and after vainly seeking to inspire Newcastle with truth and firmness, Walpole's Memoirs of George III., i. 10. he insisted that the address should be amended; that chap. XVII.} 1760. Oct. it was false to say the war had been to England a bloody war; Newcastle to Hardwicke. and after an altercation of two or three hours with Lord Bute, he extorted the king's reluctant consent to substitute as his own these words: As I mount the t