Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third: 1806-1820Hurst and Blackett, 1855 |
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Page 376 - The pro- percevaPs posal was probably not intended as an insult to Lord Grenville and Lord Grey. But surely no greater insult could be offered to any public men, than to suppose them so eager to be in office, that they would unite in an administration with persons whom they had constantly represented as having supplanted them in office by a dark and disgraceful intrigue...
Page 318 - York, when accused of conniving at the corrupt sale of military commissions by his mistress, Mrs. Clarke. Under date of Feb. 16, 1809, Freemantle writes: " The scene which is going on in the House of Commons is so disgusting, and at the same time so alarming, that I hardly know how to describe it to you. Of course, while this ferment lasts (and God knows when it is to end), no attention will be paid to the business of the country.
Page 374 - MY LORD, — The Duke of Portland having signified to his Majesty his intention of retiring from his Majesty's service, in consequence of the state of his Grace's health, his Majesty has authorised Lord Liverpool, in conjunction with myself, to communicate with your lordship and Lord Grenville, for the purpose of forming an extended and combined administration. " I hope, therefore, that your lordship, in consequence of this communication, will come to town, in order that as little time as possible...
Page 261 - ... am made responsible for the acts of others. The real share which I have had in the transactions which, in my opinion, have deservedly incurred the displeasure of the public, cannot be known till they will be inquired into ; and in the mean time, Sir Hew Dalrymple has left the government and the public so completely in the dark respecting the military expediency of allowing the French to evacuate Portugal, that that part of the question, which is the only one in which I am involved, is as little...
Page 376 - I am confident, in any respect contribute to this object, nor could it, I think, be considered in any other light than as a dereliction of public principle. This answer, which I must have given to any such proposal, if made while the government was yet entire, cannot be varied by the retreat of some of its members. My objections are not personal, they apply to the principle of the government itself, and to the circumstances which attended it* appointment.
Page 143 - The reputation of the Whigs was saved, however ; and they appeared by accident on the side of constitutional progress, martyrs to the King's rancour. Grenville put their point of view very well when he wrote to his brother : We have heard much on this Catholic question of his coronation oath. He appears to have forgot that our oath, as Privy Councillors, as well as our manifest duty, obliges us to give him true counsel to the best of our judgment.4 And it was, of course, a great grievance to the...
Page 283 - Ministers begins to extend the circle of his confidential communications, which are full of complaints of each other, and which announce, beyond all disguise, the bad opinion they entertain of their own permanence.
Page 333 - Lord Grenville says, in reference to the affair of the Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke : ' The King's mind is, I believe, more difficult to satisfy. He holds out, as he has always done, just as long as he thinks his perseverance is likely to be of any use in carrying his point ; and when he sees there is no longer any hope of th:-.t, he will give way as he has always done in such cases ' (Court and Cabinet* of George III., vol.
Page 171 - He then goes on to say that to do this is a duty in the people as well as in the Sovereign. The Duke of Portland, it seems, who is Chancellor of the University of Oxford, wrote to the University, to desire that they would petition Parliament against the [Catholic] Bill. The Duke of Cumberland, Chancellor of the University of Dublin, wrote two letters to that University...
Page 260 - Although my name is affixed to this instrument,* I beg that you will not believe that I negotiated it, that I approve of it, or that I had any hand in wording it. It was negotiated by the General himself in my presence and that of Sir Harry Burrard ; and after it had been drawn out by Kellermann himself, Sir Hew Dalryraple desired me to sign it.