Excerpt from Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 2 of 4 Meeting of Parliament - Report from the Privy Council Dr. Francis Willis - Physicians examined by Parliamentary Committees Pitt proposes a Committee to search for precedent-s Fox's objections Committee appointed Intrigues of Thurlow - Pitt's Resolutions - Free gift of offered to Pitt, but declined - Pitt's Re genoy plan Grenville elected Speaker Report of new Com mittee to examine the physicians - Pitt's Resolutions restricting the Regency - Sallies of Burke - Regency Bill passed the Com mons Restoration of the King to health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 2 of 3: With Extracts From His Ms. Papers I may add that the View of the subject which I have just expressed was in thorough accordance with the temper of the times. This, I think, can scarcely in any quarter be denied. The great majority of the people of England in 1793 and 1794 felt everything that they most prized imperilled by the French Revolutionary school, and far from deprecating, they demanded a course of most rigorous repression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 2 of 3: With Extracts From His Ms. Papers I may add that the View of the subject which I have just expressed was in thorough accordance with the temper of the times. This, I think, can scarcely in any quarter be denied. The great majority of the people of England in 1793 and 17 94 felt everything that they most prized imperilled by the French Revolutionary school, and far from deprecating, they demanded a course of most rigorous repression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Vol. 2 I am indebted to the late Mr. Rose for this detail, and for other financial state ments which I have introduced in the course of this work. Mr. Rose's information upon these subjects, and his attachment to Mr. Pitt, are equally well known. The whole system was indeed so intricate and involved, that a merchant, if he could have spared time to make the different computations, and to attend at the different departments of the custom-house, could scarcely, from his own knowledge, have been able to ascertain the amount of all the duties which he had to pay. He was therefore driven to the necessity of ap plying for, and relying upon, the direction and assistance of the officers of the customs, who from their situation were more con versant with the business, and by daily experience had acquired a greater facility in making the proper calculations and who had moreover the means, in various ways, of expediting or re tarding these complicated proceedings. Thus, the merchants were in some respects left at the mercy of the custom-house officers; and the latter, who were intended to be a check upon the fortner, in fact, and almost unavoidably, became their agents; a practice repugnant to every principle of reason and policy, and which must obviously be attended with consequences detrimental to the revenue. The revenue also suffered materially, by the mode of collecting the duties payable according to the value of the articles, which was, in many cases, estimated in a manner very liable to error and fraud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 2 of 3: With Extracts From His Ms. Papers; With Portraits Retirement of Mr. Eliot - Trial of Hamilton Rowan - Public approval of the State Trials and the prosecution of the war -schemes against the Government - Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act - Energy of the French Republicans Operations of the Allies - Sanguinary Decree of the Con vention regarding prisoners of war - Duke of York 's General Order - Corsican revolt - Heroism of Hood and Nelson Victory of the First of June - Accession to office of the Duke of Portland and his friends - Provision for Mr. Burke -death of his son - Mr. Windham-misunderstanding with the Duke of Portland - Close of the Reign of Terror in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 1 of 4 In my small volume of 'Miscellanies' (the Second Edition of which appeared in 1863) will be found various additional Letters from Mr. Pitt - as to the Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Harrowby, and Sir Walter Farquhar - many of which did not come into my hands until after my account of his Life was completed and published. I have not attempted to embody these Letters with my present edition, first because they are none of them essential to the narrative; and secondly, because in regard to books of large compass I think it unjust to the purchasers of the earlier copies to make any important changes in the later, except only in correction, if need be, of proved and admitted errors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. 2 of 4: In the House of Commons Mr. Erskine opposed the motion, and, in order that a committee might be appointed to search for precedents, be moved, that Sir Peter Burrell leave the chair 5 upon which a debate ensued of very considerable length*. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.