The Life and Corespondence of the Right Honble Henry Addington: First Viscount Sidmouth, Volume 2J. Murray, 1847 |
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Page 155 - ... ever induce them to consent to a violation of those rights on which the liberties of the people of this country are founded.
Page 352 - I could no longer fill with honour ; if, having seduced him into that situation, I had afterwards tapered off from a prominent support when I saw that the minister of my own choice was acquiring greater stability and popularity than I wished for ; if, when I saw an opening to my own return to power, I had entered into a combination with others, whom I meant also to betray, from the sole lust of power and office, in order to remove him ; and if, under the dominion of these base appetites, I had then...
Page 259 - I see a triple naval bulwark, composed of one fleet acting on the enemy's coast, of another consisting of heavier ships stationed in the Downs, ready to act at a moment's notice, and a third close to the beach, capable of destroying any part of the enemy's flotilla that should escape the vigilance of the other two branches of our defence.
Page 435 - Mr. Fox's powers of attraction must have been extraordinary, indeed, to overcome, as they did, not only the feebler resistance of Lord Sidmouth's political prepossessions, but also the more deeply rooted predispositions which were believed to prevail in the royal mind. Yet that such was the case is unquestionable.
Page 288 - ... Rose, and with all the reasons he could find. Nor did Pitt entirely fail. His Majesty consented to admit the Grenvilles. His Majesty consented to admit any friends of Fox. But as to Fox personally, the result was such as the King himself described in a note addressed on the 9th to Mr. Addington : — ' Mr. Fox is excluded by the express command of the King to Mr. Pitt.
Page 226 - Asia, but combined with the blows struck in every other quarter, it is impossible to convey to you an adequate idea of the splendour of your fame in this part of the world. With all the sanguine temper of my mind I declare that I could not have hoped for a completion of my plans at once so rapid and so secure. I must now send you fresh instructions, as you have reached the limits of all my first ideas.
Page 116 - Besides this consideration, he stated, not less pointedly and decidedly, his sentiments with regard to the absolute necessity there is in the conduct of the affairs of this country, that there should be an avowed and real Minister, possessing the chief weight in the council, and the principal place in the confidence of the King.
Page 189 - An Act to continue until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament...
Page 116 - He knows, to his own comfortable experience, that notwithstanding the abstract truth of that general proposition, it is noways incompatible with the most cordial concert and mutual exchange of advice and intercourse amongst the different branches of Executive Departments ; but still, if it should come unfortunately to such a radical difference of opinion that no spirit of conciliation or concession can reconcile, the sentiments of the Minister must be allowed and understood to prevail, leaving the...
Page 381 - broke the line in one point ; I will break it in two. There," he said to Miss Halsted, whose pen has recorded the anecdote, " there is the table on which he drew the plan of the battle of Trafalgar but five weeks before his death. It is strange that I should have used this valued relic for above thirty years, •without having once thought of recording upon it a fact so interesting.