AND

POLITICAL

ANECDOTES,

OF SEVERAL OF

THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS

OF

THE PRESENT AGE.

NEVER BEFORE PRINTED.

WITH AN

APPENDIX;

CONSISTING OF

ORIGINAL, EXPLANATORY, AND SCARCE

PAPERS.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF ANECDOTES OF THE LATE EARL OF CHATHAM.

HISTORIAM, OMNIUM SECRETORUM MEMORIAM DICO.Cicero.

IN THREE VOLUMES:

VOLUME II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN, AND L. B. SEELEY,

IN PATER-NOSTER-ROW.

RARY

NEW-YORK

1797.

CONTENTS.

The References in this Volume to the
Appendix, the Reader will find in the
Contents of the Appendix.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE LATE EARL TEMPLE.

Contradicts

Lord George

Prominent Features of the Oppofition to the Earl of Bute.

Character of the Oppofition. Leffon of the Earl of Bute.

Solicits the Friendship of Lord Temple.

Lord Temple in the House of Lords.

Sackville introduced at Court. Origin of the North

Briton. The Oppofition formed. Lord Bute makes

Proposals to Lord Temple and Mr. Pitt, by Mr.

Stanley. The Office of Tirft Minifter put into Com-

miffion. Defertion of Lord Hardwicke, and others,

from the Oppofition; whofe Offers are rejected by the

Court. Lord Temple's Firinnefs in the Support of

Mr. Wilkes, and of the great public Caufe. A great

Person mistaken in his Opinion of Lord Temple. Op-

pofition re-united. Lord Temple's Advice to Mr.

Wilkes. Mr. Webb's Account of Lord Temple.

Negotiation concerning the Duke of Leeds. Mr. Pitt's

Interview with the King. Lord Holland's Negotia-

tion with the Duke of Bedford. Lord Bute's Maza-

rinade. Intended Motion on the Seizure of Papers.

The Club called the Coterie formed. Oppofition

divided. Lord Temple's Declaration to the Duke of

Newcastle. The Duke of Cumberland's Negotiation

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with Lord Temple. Terms offered by Lord Temple.

Lord Northumberland proposed; rejected. The Duke

of Cumberland vifits Mr. Pitt. Remarks. Certainty

of Lord Bute's fecret Influence. Lord Temple and

Mr. Grenville reconciled. Lord Lyttelton applied to.

Lord Holland's Advice to the Duke of Cumberland.

Minifters restored: they difmifs Mr. Stuart Mackenzie,

and others. The King fends for Lord Temple and

Mr. Pitt. They refufe to accept the Terms offered

by the King. The Rockingham "Administration

formed; they ought to have diffolved the Parliament.

Particulars of the Meeting at Lord Eglintoun's.

Lord Temple amused by another Negotiation. Re-

marks. Duel prevented between Lord Temple and

Lord Talbot. Lord Chatham feduced: confeffes in

the House of Lords that he had been duped. Lord

Temple and Lord Chatham reconciled. Lord Temple

refuses the Offer of being made Lord Privy Seal.

CHAPTER XVIII.

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THE LATE RIGHT. HONOURABLE GEORGE GRENVILLE.

Connection with the laft Chapter. Negotiation for

Peace. Sir Charles' Knowles's Plan for taking the

Havannah; presented to Mr. Grenville, to Lord Tem-

ple, to Mr. Pitt, to Lord Anfon, to the Duke of

Cumberland. Fortunate Escape of Admiral Pococke.

Mr. Grenville differs with Lord Bute on demanding an

Equivalent for the Havannah. Mr. Grenville re-

moved to the Admiralty, and Lord Halifax made

Secretary. Mr. Grenville, complimented with a Teller-

fhip of the Exchequer for his Son. Correfpondence

of the Negotiation for Peace fupposed to be loft. Mi-

nifters took their Papers away when removed. Mr.

Grenville

Grenville appointed Firft Lord of the Treafury.

Lawyers not Politicians. Perfecution of Mr. Wilkes.

Lord Bute's Letter to the King. American Affairs.

Project of new-modelling all the American Govern-

ments. The Outlines of the Defign. True Cause

of the Stamp Act." Mr. Grenville not the Author of

that Act. Impolicy of it. Mr. Mauduit's Account

of a Conference with Mr. Grenville. Remarks on

that Paper. Governor Bernard's Letter. Trade and

Connection with America explained. Mr. Grenville

deceived; removed. Stamp Act repealed. The

Plan of fubjugating America continued. Montcalm's

Letters. Mr. Grenville faves the Public Credit of all

Europe. The King's Efteem for Mr. Grenville ex-

preffed upon two Occafions.
Page 65

His Tracts.

CHAPTER XIX.

THOMAS WHATELY, ESQ.

Letters to him from Governor Hutchinson

and Lieutenant Governor Oliver, fhewn to different

Perfons; fent to America by Dr. Franklin. Refolu-

tions in America upon them. Petition to remove the

Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Duel between

Mr. Temple and Mr. William Whately.

CHAPTER XX.

CHARLES LLOYD, ESQ.

Names of the Tracts written by him.

CHAPTER XXI.

WILLIAM KNOX, ESQ.

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Page 108

Advocate for the American War. Secretary to Lord

George Germain. His State of the Nation; affifted

by Mr. Grenville. Other Publications. Page 112

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