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Charles Jenkinson (search for this): chapter 6
s office, the new minister inherited also the services of his efficient private secretary, Charles Jenkinson, who now became the principal Secretary of the Treasury. He was a man of rare ability. ATownshend had counselled with dangerous rashness, and which George Grenville in part resisted, Jenkinson was always ready to carry forward with tranquil collectedness. The king wished to see Townsca. It was not the wish of this man or that man; Speech of Cornwall, brother-in-law of Charles Jenkinson, in the House of Commons, in Cavendish Debates, i. 91. each house of parliament, and nearler of CHAP. VI.} 1763. May. Pitt. While his report was waited for, Grenville, through Charles Jenkinson, C. Jenkinson to Sir Jeffery Amherst, 11 May, 1763. Treasury Letter Book, XXII. 392. bC. Jenkinson to Sir Jeffery Amherst, 11 May, 1763. Treasury Letter Book, XXII. 392. began his system of saving, by an order to the Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in America, now that the peace was made, to withdraw the allowance for victualling the regiments Weyman's New-York Gaz
George Selwyn (search for this): chapter 6
vantage of being defenders of the constitution on a question affecting a vital principle of personal freedom. The cry for Wilkes and Liberty was heard in all parts of the British dominion. Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, III. 163. In the midst of the confusion, Grenville set about confirming himself in power Grenville's Account of himself to Knox. by diligence in the public business. His self-conceit, said Lord Holland afterwards, Lord Holland to George Selwyn. as well as his pride and obstinacy, established him. For the joint secretary of the treasury he selected an able and sensible lawyer, Thomas Whately, in whom he obtained a firm defender and political friend. His own secretary as Chancellor of the Exchequer was Richard Jackson; and the choice CHAP. VI.} 1763. April. is very strong evidence that though he entered upon his task blindly, as it proved, and in ignorance That Grenville was very ignorant as to the colonies we have a wit
Thomas Whately (search for this): chapter 6
d in all parts of the British dominion. Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, III. 163. In the midst of the confusion, Grenville set about confirming himself in power Grenville's Account of himself to Knox. by diligence in the public business. His self-conceit, said Lord Holland afterwards, Lord Holland to George Selwyn. as well as his pride and obstinacy, established him. For the joint secretary of the treasury he selected an able and sensible lawyer, Thomas Whately, in whom he obtained a firm defender and political friend. His own secretary as Chancellor of the Exchequer was Richard Jackson; and the choice CHAP. VI.} 1763. April. is very strong evidence that though he entered upon his task blindly, as it proved, and in ignorance That Grenville was very ignorant as to the colonies we have a witness in Knox, who himself had held office in Georgia, and knew America from his own observation. of the colonies, yet his intentions were fair; The be
Rockingham (search for this): chapter 6
; but, in the handsomest manner, wished to be omitted. Bute to Grenville, 1 April, 1763, in Grenville Papers, II. 41. As to the other insinuation, the concealment of Bute's purpose of resigning, whether blamable or not, was the act of Bute himself, with whom Fox negotiated directly. I am come from Lord Bute, writes Fox to the Duke of Cumberland, on the 30 Sept. 1762, more than ever convinced that he never has had, nor now has, a thought of retiring or treating. Alhemarle's Memoirs of Rockingham, i. 132. That Fox was with Bute repeatedly before superseding Grenville in the lead of the House of Commons, appears from Albemarle, i. 127, 129 and 132. Bedford Correspondence, III. 124 and 133. That Fox did not regard this concealment as an offence appears from his own testimony; for he himself, in December, 1763, said to Grenville, that he believed Lord Bute to be a perfect honest man; that he respected him as such; and that in the intercourse between them Lord Bute had never broken
Wilkes (search for this): chapter 6
y the people, became a general joke, Walpole to Mann, 30 April, 1763. and was laughed at as a three-headed monster, Wilkes to Lord Temple, in Grenville Papers. quieted by being gorged with patronage and office. The business of the session was ing vauntingly arrogated merit for the peace which Frederic of Prussia had concluded, after being left alone by England. Wilkes, a man who shared the social licentiousness of his day, in the forty-fifth number of a periodical paper called the North Mahon's History of England, IV. pronounces unworthy of notice, but which all parties at that day branded as a libel. Wilkes was arrested; but on the doubtful plea that his privilege as a member of parliament had been violated, he was set at libeantage of being defenders of the constitution on a question affecting a vital principle of personal freedom. The cry for Wilkes and Liberty was heard in all parts of the British dominion. Hutchinson's History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,
Due Choiseul (search for this): chapter 6
stem of frugality. America, with its new acquisitions-Florida, and the valley of the Mississippi, and Canada-lay invitingly before him. The enforcing the navigation acts was peculiarly his own policy, and was the first leading feature of his administration. His predecessors had bound him by their pledges to provide for the American army by taxes on the colonies; and to find sources of an American revenue, was his second great object. This he combined with the purpose M. Frances au Due de Choiseul à Londres le 2 Septembre, 1768. of so dividing the public burdens between England and America as to diminish the motive to emigrate from Great Britain and Ireland; Second protest of the House of Lords, on the repeal of the stamp act. for, in those days, emigration Knox, i. 23, Extra-official Papers, II. 23. was considered an evil. In less than a month after Bute's retirement, Egremont, who still remained Secretary of State for the southern department, asked the advice of the Lord
William Johnson (search for this): chapter 6
nd vivify various masses of business, nor sagacity to penetrate the springs of public action and the consequences of measures. In a word, he was a dull, plodding pedant in politics; a painstaking, exact man of business, capable of counting Dr. Johnson's Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falk land's Islands. First edition: Let him (George Grenville) not be depreciated in his grave. He had powers not universally possessed. Could he have enforced payment of the Manilla ransom, he could have counted it. Boswell's Life of Johnson, chap. XXV. the Manilla ransom if it had ever been paid. In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope Knox: Extra-official Papers. never passed his lips; but he abounded in repetitions and explanatory self-justification. He would have made a laborious and an upright judge, or an impartial and most respectable speaker of the CHAP. VI.} 1763. April. House of Commons; but at the head of an administration, he
Horace Walpole (search for this): chapter 6
and had accepted another from avarice, Horace Walpole's George the Third, i. and in the hope of men regarded him as a model of integrity, Walpole's George III. i. 338, 339. Walpole then enteWalpole then entertained a most favorable opinion of his integrity. Soon afterwards he had a hitter quarrel with Grorne in mind; towards no man of his time does Walpole show himself so peevishly bitter as towards Goved by the people, became a general joke, Walpole to Mann, 30 April, 1763. and was laughed at arge the Third. He had supported the peace Walpole, in Memoirs of the Reign of King George III. le's Diary for Wednesday, 25 Dec. 1764. Even Walpole admits that Lord Holland's own friend, as weledfords, refused to find Shelburne blamable. Walpole's Geo. III. i. 262, 263. In the very paragraph in which Walpole brings these unsubstantiated charges against Shelburne, he is entirely at faul was unwilling to pass over the aspersions of Walpole. It is to be remembered also, that both whig
George Grenville (search for this): chapter 6
ucrative one of paymaster to the forces. G. Grenville's Narrative, in the Grenville Papers, i. 43 strong will, and was by no means obstinate: Grenville had a feeble will, and was very obstinate. wselled with dangerous rashness, and which George Grenville in part resisted, Jenkinson was always renistry after the advancement of Egremont and Grenville, who, at the time of his negotiating the peathe session was rapidly brought to a close. Grenville's bill for the effectual enforcement of the a right. How to proceed became a question. Grenville, Grenville's Speeches in the House of ComGrenville's Speeches in the House of Commons, 16 December, 1768, and 3 February, 1769, in Wright's Cavendish Debates, i. 110, 160. as a lawIII. 163. In the midst of the confusion, Grenville set about confirming himself in power Greany difference about the paymaster's place. Grenville's Diary, in Papers II. 207, 208. As for She; for he himself, in December, 1763, said to Grenville, that he believed Lord Bute to be a perfect [14 more...]
G. Grenville (search for this): chapter 6
British constitution stood like adamant. Grenville, who was never personally agreeable to the kent in the Grenville Papers, i. 484. Yet Grenville was no venal adventurer, and in his love of Soon afterwards he had a hitter quarrel with Grenville, and from that hour spoke very ill of him. I show himself so peevishly bitter as towards Grenville, often coloring and distorting facts, and alil of some part of his great possessions; Grenville's Narrative, in the Grenville Papers. so GreGrenville saved always all his emoluments from public office, pleading that it was a disinterested act to be esteemed a sound Whig, I know that Mr. Grenville, as a sound whig, bore me no good will. He House of Commons of about thirty years, Grenville, in Cavendish. he said with pride that to th to esteem himself superior to them all. Yet Grenville wanted the elements of true statesmanship any. Pitt. While his report was waited for, Grenville, through Charles Jenkinson, C. Jenkinson
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