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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
the mountains, and deliver a present to them in person, in their own remote dwelling-places. The aged and undiscerning German prince who still sat on the British throne, methodically narrow, swayed by his mistress more than by his minister, meanly avaricious and spiritless, was too prejudiced to chap. IV.} 1752. gather round him willingly the ablest statesmen, and cared more for Hanover than for America. His ministers were intent only on keeping in power. To be well together with Lady Yarmouth, Pelham wrote, is the best ground to stand on. Pelham to Newcastle, 12-24 October, 1752, in Coxe's Pelham, Ad. II. 463. If the good-will of the king's mistress, continued England's primeminister to its principal secretary of state, if that shakes, we have no resource. The whig aristocracy had held exclusive possession of the government for nearly forty years; its authority was now culminating; and it had nothing better to offer the British people, than an administration which openly
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
th him. A plain man, he answered, unpractised in the policy of a court, must never presume to be the associate of so experienced a minister. Write to him yourself, said Newcastle to Hardwicke. Don't boggle at it; you see the king wishes it; Lady Yarmouth advises it; Newcastle to Hardwicke, 15 Oct. 1756. and Hardwicke saw him. But Pitt, after a three hours interview, gave chap. X.} 1756. him a totally negative answer. The great obstacles, says Hardwicke, were the Duke of Newcastle and hiere was nothing alleged against him but conducting the war according to the king's own desire; so that he himself was about to become a victim to his loyalty. Newcastle to Hardwicke, 20 Oct. 1756. But Pitt, who had never before waited upon Lady Yarmouth, now counterworked the duke by making a Long visit to the king's mistress. The duke attempted to enlist Egremont, offered power to Granville, and at last, having still an undoubted majority in the House of Commons, the great leader of the Wh