The Diary of the Late George Bubb Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Regis: From March 8, 1749, to February 6, 1761; with an Appendix, Containing Some Curious and Interesting Papers, which are Either Referred To, Or Alluded To, in the Diary. Published from His Lordship's Original Manuscripts

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Page 6 - ... myself, he stopped me, and then said, " I now promise you on the word and honour of a prince that, as soon as I come to the crown, I will give you a peerage and the seals of the southern province." Upon my endeavouring to thank him, he repeated the same words, and added (putting back his chair)^ " and I give you leave to kiss my hand upon it now, by way of acceptance ;
Page 154 - ... the prince seemed to have a very tender regard for the memory of his father, and that she encouraged it as much as she could : that when they behaved wrong, or idly (as children will do) to any that belonged to the late prince, and who are now about her, she always asked them, how they thought their father would have liked to see them behave so to anybody that belonged to him, and whom he valued; and that they ought to have the more kindness for them, because they had lost their friend and protector,...
Page 306 - ... they agreed to send an order to sir Edward Hawke that he should sail with about sixteen ships of the line to Torbay, and there expect farther instructions ; that these farther instructions were to be drawn up by lord Anson and sir Thomas Robinson ; that the duke of Cumberland had said, if they had any prospect of a peace, he had nothing to say; but if they were convinced it must be war, he had no notion of not making the most of the strength and opportunity we had in our hands...
Page 203 - Hartcourt, lord Townshend, the bishop- of Worcester, and lord Talbot 'only. The bishop of Norwich and lord Harcourt both spoke, not to much purpose; but neither of them in the least supported the duke's question. Upon the whole, it was the worst judged, the worst executed, and the worst supported point that I ever saw of so much expectation.
Page 317 - His education had given her much pain ; his book-learning she was no judge of, though she supposed it small or useless ; but she hoped he might have been instructed in the general understanding of things.
Page 327 - Newcastle agreed to treaties giving subsidies to various German states and even to Russia, in return for promises to find troops for the defence of Hanover. Against this system Pitt openly declared himself. " I think," he said, " regard ought to be had to Hanover, if it should be attacked on our account; but we could not find money to defend it by subsidies, and if we could that is not the way to defend it.
Page 443 - Diary, p. 235, 236), numAnne's lasi ministry; it cannot but alarm all true Whigs to hear of schoolmasters of very contrary principles being thought of for preceptors, and to see none but the friends and pupils of the late Lord Bolingbroke intrusted with the education of a Prince whose family that Lord endeavoured by his measures to exclude, and by his writings to eXpel from the throne of these kingdoms...
Page 373 - DEC. 20. — Lord Bute called on me, and we had much talk about setting up a paper, and about the houses, in case of resignations. 21. — Mr Glover was with me, and was full of admiration of lord Bute ; he applauded his conduct and the king's, saying, that they would beat everything ; but a little time must be allowed for the madness of popularity to cool.
Page 318 - Pray, madam," asked Dodington, " what is his province ?" "I don't know, unless it is to go before the prince up-stairs, to walk with him sometimes, seldomer to ride with him, and now and then to dine...

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