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Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to 1806, When His Public Life in Europe Was Closed by His Appointment to the Vice-Royalty of India (Volume 2)

Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1751 to 1806, When His Public Life in Europe Was Closed by His Appointment to the Vice-Royalty of India (Volume 2)


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1874 Excerpt: ... good; these exertions of individuals never amount to more than expression of their own zeal.' After mentioning the capture of Breda1 as a disagreeable circumstance, because said to be by treachery, Sir Gilbert goes on: --'March 7, 1793. 'There is an immense power confederating against France, and allowing for the uncertainty of war and of all human calculations, there seems reason to expect a successful issue to this most important struggle between all the order and all the anarchy of the world. There has been a good deal of uneasiness in the public concerning the apparent slowness of our preparations and slackness of our exertions, especially in the naval line. Burke, Windham, and I desired a conference with Pitt on the subject yesterday, and we had a long one with him and Dundas in the Speaker's chamber. Pitt was of course all civility, and desired that we would never make the smallest scruple of applying for any information we wished, or suggesting anything we thought useful, promising to attend to it with great care, and assuring us of a perfectly confidential communication of all information. He gave us a good deal of satisfaction concerning naval preparations, and on all other points gave us encouraging information. Burke gave him a little political instruction, in a very respectful and cordial way, but with the authority of an old and most informed statesman; and although nobody ever takes the whole of Burke's advice, yet he often, or rather always, furnishes very important and useful matter, some part of which sticks and does good. Pitt took it all very patiently and cordially. This was more like a cabinet than any council I have yet attended. The Duke of Portland has behaved as usual about the Whig Club business. He went there with Lord Titchfield, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151025685
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151025682
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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