 I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will not receive any recommendations, having positively resolved to confer it on him as a mark of that regard which his eminent services...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4541821Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 820 pages
...of the earl of Guildford, I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt, that the wardenship of the Cinque ports is an office, for which I will not receive any »ecommendation; having positively resolved to confer it on him, as a mark of that regard, which his... | |
 | 1826 - 384 pages
...of the Earl of Guildford, I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt, that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will...deserved from me. I am so bent on this, that I shall be severely offended at any attempt to decline. I have intrusted these my intentions to the Earl of... | |
 | 1826 - 370 pages
...of the Earl of Guildford, I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt, that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will...recommendations; having positively resolved to confer it ou him, as a mark of that regard which his eminent services have deserved from me. I am so bent on... | |
 | 1832 - 592 pages
...the king, in his letter to the premier, on this occasion, " that the wardenship 380 WILLIAM PITT. 387 of the cinque ports is an office for which I will...positively resolved to confer it on him, as a mark of that high regard which his eminent services have deserved from me. I am so bent on this, that I shall be... | |
 | 1832 - 616 pages
...receive any recommendations, having positively resolved to confer it on him, as a mark of that high regard which his eminent services have deserved from me. I am so bent on this, that I shall be seriously offended at any attempts to decline it. In person, Pitt was tall, slender, well-proportioned,... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1842 - 708 pages
...the Cinque Ports is an office for which I " will not receive any recommendations, having posi" tively resolved to confer it on him, as a mark of that "...deserved " from me. I am so bent on this, that I shall be seri" ously offended at any attempt to decline." At his first accession to power*, Mr. Pitt, as... | |
 | John Adolphus - 1842 - 706 pages
...which his Majesty said, " I take the first " opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt, that the war" denship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I " will not receive any recommendations, having posi" tively resolved to confer it on him, as a mark of that " regard which his eminent services have... | |
 | 1862 - 520 pages
...the arrogant, unmanageable, and loosely-principled * Life, vol. ii. p. 160. The king's words were: " I will not receive any recommendations, having positively...seriously be offended at any attempt to decline." — Appendix V. 2, p. xvi. t The Duke of Dorset, it appears, then one of the household, was exceedingly... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 pages
...death of the Earl of Guilford, I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will...the Earl of Chatham, Lord Grenville, and Mr. Dundas. As to the Lieutenancy of Somersetshire, the very steady support of the Earl of Paulett, added to its... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1867 - 636 pages
...death of the Earl of Guilford, I take the first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt that the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will not receive any recommendations, having positively * Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Lord Brougham ; Letters of Eminent Statesmen, First Scries, pp. 391, &c.... | |
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