The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783: Printed from the Original Papers in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Volume 1

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Pagina 480 - Grafton, you must perceive the anxiety he and the President at present labour under. The Chancellor is very much in the same situation. This is equally owing to the majority in the House of Lords, amounting on the Friday only to six and on the Tuesday to three, though I made two of my brothers vote on both those days; and to the great coldness shown those three ministers by Lord Shelburne, whom they, as well as myself, imagine to be rather a secret enemy...
Pagina 19 - A PROCLAMATION,* Requiring all Persons being in Office of Authority or Government at the Decease of the late King, to proceed in the Execution of their respective Offices.
Pagina 375 - ... present administration for the basis to build on, with such alterations as might appear necessary. '' I am sorry to see, though we only kept in generals, that he seems to incline to quarters very heterogeneous to my and your ideas, and almost a total exclusion to the present men, which is not your plan ; but as we did not come to particulars, I hope I am not quite founded in my apprehensions.
Pagina 424 - House, and what is more agreeable that it will be from conviction that this is the only safe method of extracting this country out of its lamentable situation owing to the load of debt it labours under.
Pagina 480 - My firmness is not dismayed by these unpleasant appearances ; for, from the hour you entered into office, I have uniformly relied on your firmness to act in defiance to that hydra faction, which has never appeared to the height it now does, till within these few weeks.
Pagina 498 - If His Majesty thinks it for his service to form a new Administration on a comprehensive plan, the general idea of which has already been opened to your Grace, I should then humbly hope to have His Majesty's permission to attend him, in order to receive his commands, it being impossible to enter into particulars till I have His Majesty's leave to proceed upon this plan.
Pagina 194 - I have the honour to be, with great respect, my Lord, your Lordship's " Most obedient and obliged servant,
Pagina 480 - LORD CHATHAM, No one has more cautiously avoided writing to you than myself, during your late indisposition ; but the moment is so extremely critical, that I cannot possibly delay it any longer. By the letter you received yesterday from the Duke of Grafton, you must perceive the anxiety he and the President at present labour under. The Chancellor is very much in the same situation. This is equally owing to the majority in the House of Lords, amounting on the Friday only to six, and on the Tuesday...
Pagina 394 - I think the summoning a Committee of Council on Wednesday next, to afresh consider the dearness of corn, and what means may be expedient to remove the evil at the present moment, is very proper. But as the...
Pagina 4 - ... doubtful, and may the paternal affection on the one side, and the filial obedience on the other, be had in perpetual remembrance. : " This will probably be the last time I shall ever trouble your majesty.

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