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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., The crisis (search)
ive post, before he changed his mind and excused himself. Lord Howe would not serve unless under Pitt. Lord Hardwicke's Memorial. Albemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham and his Contemporaries, i. 335.Address to the King, in Brad ford, 91. and voted thanks Vote of Thanks, &c., & c., 20 June. to Pitt and to Grafton; and, among many others, to Conway and Barre, to Camden and Shelburne; to Howard, nd Rutledge; and on the motion of Rawlins Lowndes, remitted a thousand pounds towards a statue of Pitt. Still they felt keenly that they were undeservedly distinguished from their happier fellow-subj XXV.} 1766. June. were spread for feasting; and a tall mast was raised to George the Third, William Pitt, and Liberty. At night enormous bonfires blazed; and all was as loyal and happy, as though fvoted to raise on the Bowling Green an equestrian statue of George the Third, and a statue of William Pitt, twice the Preserver of his Country. But the clause of the Mutiny or Billeting Act, directin
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 26: (search)
e eclipse of the genius and of the glory of William Pitt. Unrelenting disease and the labors of theto form an independent Ministry. The King to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chatham Correspondence, II. 436. Northington to Pitt, 7 July, 1766. Chat. Cor. II. 435. The feeble invalid, whose infirmities infistration as the groundwork of his own; That Pitt stated this on Saturday the 12th appears from ts issue, still further aggravated the malady of Pitt. He was too ill, on the eighteenth, to see thein Grafton's Autobiography; and C. Townshend to Pitt, 26 July, 1766. Chatham Corr. II. 464, 465. Thus he professed himself a devotee to Pitt and Grafton, being sure to do his utmost to thwart the on a whole, the Cabinet—of which the Members were Pitt, Camden, Grafton, Conway, Shelburne, and the nore privilege of unanimity, it is this, in which Pitt will see none but persons whose imagination he a senselessness to glory to forfeit the name of Pitt for any title. Charles Lee to King of Poland[2 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 32: (search)
than those of the Pelhams; and those of the Pelhams, than those since the accession of George the Third; so that direct gifts of money were grown less frequent, as public opinion increased in power. But there never was a Parliament so shameless in its corruption as this Twelfth Parliament which virtually severed America from England. It had its votes ready for any body that was Minister, and for any measure that the Minister of the day might propose. It gave an almost unanimous support to Pitt, when, for the last time in seventy years, the foreign politics of England were on the side of liberty. It had a majority for Newcastle after Chap. XXXII.} 1768. March he had ejected Pitt; for Bute when he dismissed Newcastle; for Grenville so long as he was the friend of Bute; for Grenville, when he became Bute's most implacable foe; and for the slender capacity of the inexperienced Rockingham. The shadow of Chatham, after his desertion of the House, could sway its decisions. When Char
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 37: (search)
to the mediocrity of his talents and the impossibility of finding a Secretary of State more thoroughly submissive. Frances to Choiseul, 29 Sept. 1768. He needed money, being so poor as to have once told Choiseul with tears in his eyes, that if he lost the embassy which he then filled, he should be without resources Choiseul to Frances, 21 Sept. 1768. He had a passion also to play a part, and in his moments of glorying, would boast of his intention to rival not Chatham, he would say, but Pitt; Choiseul to Frances, 12 Oct. 1768. though he could not even for a day adhere steadily to one idea. His meddlesome disposition, said Choiseul, makes him a worse man to deal with than one of greater ability. You, answered Du Chatelet, Du Chatelet to Choiseul, 18 Nov. 1768; Same to Same, 28 Nov. 1768. may turn his foibles and defects to the advantage of the King. After his accession, the Administration was the weakest and the worst which England has known since its Revolution. It ha