A Narrative of the Changes in the Ministry, 1765-1767
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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Changes in the Ministry, 1765-1767: Told by the Duke of Newcastle in a Series of Letters to John White, M. P Although the Narrative is headed ´very secret,´ from the care that has been taken in making duplicates in enriching it with marginal notes and an appendix of illustrative matter it would seem not impossible that the Duke intended it for ultimate publication. The Narrative covers the period of continual ministerial changes which followed on the dismissal of George Grenville and preceded the rise of Lord North, the period in which it was generally believed by the Whigs that Lord Bute ruled the King´s counsels. Secretaries of State and Lords of the Treasury were rapidly shifting; ´surely you did not think,´ says Walpole satirically, that they ´are of more importance or ought to be more permanent than churchwardens?´ It is with the rise and fall of the Rockingham Ministry and with the unsuccessful negotiation for a coalition, which followed on the failure of Lord Chatham´s health, that the Duke´s Narrative is principally concerned. The first letter opens with an account of the attempts of George III. to get rid of the obnoxious Bedford-Grenville Ministry by means of a negotiation which should create a Ministry from some section of the Whig Opposition. To arrange terms with either the Duke of Newcastle and the younger members of the party, or with Pitt and Temple, the King engaged the services of his uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, who himself wrote a Memorial of these events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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