Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (Volume 1) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1840. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... P. S. The Duchess of Newcastle desires her best compliments. I beg you would order Mr. Rivers to send me your letters and instructions to the Earl of Loudoun and Admiral Holbourne, that I may have the pleasure of seeing them, and knowing the orders, the generals and admiral these are under. I am sure I shall most entirely approve of them. (') JOHN WILKES, ESQ. TO MR. PITT. Aylesbury, July 14, 1757.(') OIR, The day after my election I had the honour of paying my respects in St James's Square. I was (') "Shortly after came letters from the Earl of Loudoun, the commander-in-chief in North America, stating that he found the French 21,000 strong, and that not having so many, he could not attack Louisburg, but should return to Halifax. Admiral Holbourne, one of the sternest condemners of Byng, wrote at the same time, that he having but seventeen ships, and the French nineteen, he dared not attack them. Here was another summer lost! Pitt expressed himself with great vehemence against the earl; and we naturally have too lofty ideas of our naval strength to suppose that seventeen of our ships are not a match for any nineteen others."-- Walpole's Geo. II. vol.ii. p. 231. (2) Mr. Wilkes, who at this time resided at Aylesbury, had been elected member for that town on the 6th of July, in the room of Mr. Potter, who was returned for Oakhampton. This election is said to have cost him upwards of seven thousand pounds, and to have involved him in pecuniary difficulties. In the course of the year, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia. desirous of so early an opportunity of saying how greatly I wish to be numbered among those who have the highest esteem and veneration for Mr. Pitt. I am very happy now to contribute more than my warmest wishes...