The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington: Baron of Melcombe Regis; from March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761; with an Appendix, Containing Some Curious and Interesting Papers, which are Either Referred To, Or Alluded To, in the Diary. Published from His Lordship's Original ManuscriptsJ. Murray, 1823 - 472 páginas |
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Página 6 - ... to express myself, he stopped me, and then said, " I now promise you on the word and honour of a prince that, as soon as I come to the crown, I will give you a peerage and the seals of the southern province." Upon my endeavouring to thank him, he repeated the same words, and added (putting back his chair), " and I give you leave to kiss my hand upon it now, by way of acceptance;
Página 204 - ... in Ravensworth's bosom, that he could have no rest till he had discovered this enormity. Accordingly, when he came to town, he acquainted the ministry and almost all his great friends with it, and insisted upon the removal of Stone. The ministry would have slighted it as it deserved, but as he persisted and had told so many of it, they could not help laying it before the king, who, though he himself slighted it, was advised to examine it, which examination produced this most injudicious proceeding...
Página 204 - Fosset upon this subject, in which the latter always persisted that Stone and Murray were present at the drinking, and did drink those healths. It may be observed here, that, when he was examined upon oath, he swore to the years 1731 or 1732 at latest.
Página 439 - Diary, p. 235, 236), numAnne's lasi ministry; it cannot but alarm all true Whigs to hear of schoolmasters of very contrary principles being thought of for preceptors, and to see none but the friends and pupils of the late Lord Bolingbroke intrusted with the education of a Prince whose family that Lord endeavoured by his measures to exclude, and by his writings to eXpel from the throne of these kingdoms...
Página xiii - If, on the contrary, by unveiling the mysterious intrigues of a Court, and by exposing the latent causes of opposition, the Diary teaches us, that both one and the other may act from the same interested and corrupt principle ; it may then make us cautiously diffident of the motives of either ; and the country gentlemen, in particular, may learn from it, that they have as much to dread from those who are in pursuit of power, as from those in actual possession of it; from those who are, hopefully,...
Página 149 - I then took the liberty to ask her, what she thought the real disposition of the prince to be? She said, that I knew him almost as well as she did ; that he was very honest, but she wished that he was a little more forward and less childish, at his age: that she hoped his preceptors would improve him.
Página 162 - Harcourt resigned being governor to the prince. He offered to do so, unless Mr. Stone (placed as sub-governor by the ministers), Mr. Scott, tutor in the late prince's time (but recommended by Lord Bolingbroke), and Mr. Cresset, made treasurer by the princess's recommendation, were removed. The king desired him to consider of it; but Lord Harcourt continuing in the same resolution, the archbishop and lord chancellor were sent to him to know the particulars of his complaints against those gentlemen....
Página 280 - Mr. Pitt came to Lord Hillsborough's, where was Mr. Fox, who stepping aside, and Mr. Pitt thinking he was gone, the latter declared to Lord Hillsborough, that all connexion between him and Mr. Fox was over — that the ground was altered — that Fox was of the Cabinet and Regent, and he was left exposed, &c.
Página 250 - I went down, one of 1000/. one of 500/. besides all the money then in my steward's hands, so that the election would cost me about 2,500/. In the next place, if this election stood, the borough was for ever in Tory hands ; that all this was occasioned by want of proper support from the court, and from the behaviour of the servants of the crown. Upon Mr Pelham's death, seeing the multitude of promotions, in which no notice was taken of me, and lord Poulett acting openly against me with all his might;...
Página 78 - ... conference with his royal highness, and I began with telling him that, on Monday, Mr Oswald was with me, to acquaint me that he had received positive offers from court ; he was surprised, and asked me what they were; I told him that, though as I owed my first duty to him, I ought not to conceal anything from him that related to his service; yet that there were also other duties that I held sacred, and if I should discover the secret of a friend to him, I hoped his royal highness would be pleased...