Life of William, Earl of Shelburne, Afterwards First Marquess of Landsdowne: With Extracts from His Papers and Correspondence, Volume 1Macmillan, 1875 - Definitive Treaty of Peace Between Great Britain and the United States |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affairs afterwards appears appointed believe Board of Trade brother Bute to Shelburne Bute's Chancellor character Colonel Barré colonies conduct consequence conversation Council Court dear Lord desired Duke of Bedford Duke of Cumberland Duke of Newcastle Earl Egremont England father favour Fox to Bute Fox to Shelburne Fox's friends give Government Governor Grenville honour House of Commons House of Lords Ireland King King's Lady Lansdowne House letter Lord Bute Lord Fitzmaurice Lord George Lord Granville Lord Hardwicke Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty Majesty's manner Marlborough means measures Memoirs Minister Ministry negociation never obliged occasion opinion paper Parliament party Pay Office peace Peerage person Pitt present Prince regard resign retire Rigby Secretary sent Shelburne to Bute Sir Robert Walpole Stamp Act supposed tell things thought told took Townshend Treasury Whigs whole wish writes wrote
Popular passages
Page 320 - They nourished up by your indulgence !" They grew by your neglect of them. As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule them,!
Page 384 - The Stamp Act says, we shall have no commerce, make no exchange of property with each other, neither purchase, nor grant, nor recover debts ; we shall neither marry nor make our wills, unless we pay such and such sums ; and thus it is intended to extort our money from us, or ruin us by the consequences of refusing to pay it.
Page 321 - ... their constant and laborious industry for the defence of a country whose frontier was drenched in blood, while its interior parts yielded all its little savings to your emolument.
Page 321 - ... on many occasions has caused the blood of those SONS OF LIBERTY to recoil within them: men promoted to the highest...
Page 320 - They planted by your care! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny, to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable, and, among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take upon me to say, the most formidable of any people upon the face of...
Page 320 - ... to recoil within them — men, promoted to the highest seats of justice, some of whom, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own.
Page ix - No, no, I am not equal to Junius ; I could not be . the author; but the grounds of secrecy are now so far removed by death and changes of circumstances, that it is unnecessary the author of Junius should much longer be unknown. The world are curious about him, and I could make a very interesting publication on the subject. I knew Junius, and / knew all about the writing and production of those letters. But look...
Page 49 - II. there were three parties : first, the old Whigs, who entirely composed the administration ; secondly, the discontented Whigs, who one after another quarrelled with Sir Robert Walpole and the main body ; thirdly, the Tories, to whose character and principles sufficient justice has not been done, owing to the never-ceasing outcry of ministers in confounding them with the Jacobites. But in fact they were the landed interest of England, who desired to see...
Page 2 - June, 1827, raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Plunket, being at the same time appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland ; and...