 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 400 pages
...feelings of the majority of the nation. The ministry being now defeated in their most favourite svheme, a struggle took place between them and the opposition,...and meetings for this purpose were held at the St. Aiban's Tavern. These not proving successful, for neither parly would give way, and it becoming absolutely... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 396 pages
...dearest interests of the uation ; and the event proved, that Iiis advice was consonant to the {eelings of the majority of the nation. •» The ministry...ministry, and the business of the nation stood still. A parly of moderate men endeavoured to unite the jarring interests of the more violent, by some kind... | |
 | Horace Twiss - Engraving - 1844 - 660 pages
...Canning received his Majesty's commands to form a Government ; but on the 12th, when he kissed hands as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, he found himself shorn of more than half the strength of the Tory party. He had now to construct a Ministry... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1861 - 614 pages
...offices with efficient men. When the arrangements were completed, Pitt stood at the head of the Cabmet as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the fifth Premier the House had seen in twenty-one months ; and so overwhelming was the opposition,... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 pages
...offices with efficient men. When the arrangements were completed, Pitt stood at the head of the Cabinet as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was the fifth Premier the House had seen in twenty-one months ; and so overwhelming was the Opposition,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 280 pages
...advantage of the king's death to retire from office, and that Peel should undertake the government as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had long been of opinion, he said, that ' it is desirable that the power of the Government should be... | |
 | Edgar Sanderson - Great Britain - 1882 - 460 pages
...as a Scotchman and a favourite tlon' of the Princess of Wales. George Greuville now became premier, as first lord of the treasury and chancellor of the exchequer. He was a man of more courage than discretion, and his policy involved the crown and the country in unseemly... | |
 | James Butler Duke of Ormonde - Jacobite Rebellion, 1719 - 1895 - 432 pages
...kindness to these Scotch gentlemen. 1 James, first Earl Stanhope, who in 1717 succeeded Lord Townshend as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had commanded the British army in Spain from 1708 to 1710 ; and when a prisoner at Saragossa, after... | |
 | Scottish History Society - Scotland - 1895 - 416 pages
...kindness to these Scotch gentlemen. 1 James, first Earl Stanhope, who in 1717 succeeded Lord Townshend as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He had commanded the British army in Spain from 1708 to 1710 ; and when a prisoner at Saragossa, after... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 556 pages
...North. He disclaimed indeed the title of Prime Minister, as a term unknown to the Constitution ; but as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer he was more than any other person responsible to the country for the policy that was pursued, and but... | |
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Pitt was placed as first lord of the Treasury and chancellor of the Exchequer. He could not/ however, succeed in his measures in the house of commons: the majority were still the adherents of the coalition ministry, and the business of the nation stood... 
