. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . March, the king wroteto lord North, At length the fatal day is come, which the misfortunes of thetimes, and the sudden change of sentiments in the House of Commons, have Memorials of Fox, vol i. p. 295. 486 LORD NORTH RESIGNS—THE ROCKINGHAM MINISTRY [1782. driven me to, of changing my ministers, and a more general removal of otherpersons, than I believe ever was known before. The king refused to haveany personal communication with lord Rockingham until his administrat
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . March, the king wroteto lord North, At length the fatal day is come, which the misfortunes of thetimes, and the sudden change of sentiments in the House of Commons, have Memorials of Fox, vol i. p. 295. 486 LORD NORTH RESIGNS—THE ROCKINGHAM MINISTRY [1782. driven me to, of changing my ministers, and a more general removal of otherpersons, than I believe ever was known before. The king refused to haveany personal communication with lord Rockingham until his administrationwas completed, and he was admitted to an audience as First Lord of theTreasury. Thurlow was continued as Chancellor. Shelburne and CharlesPox became Secretaries of State. Burke, Thomas Townshend, andSheridan held minor offices. Burke felt somewhat mortified at that exclu-siveness in the party that almost avowedly regarded power as an heir-loomin certain houses. * He wrote to an applicant for place, I make nopart of the ministerial arrangement. Something in the official line maypossibly be thought fit for my From a Portrait of Sir J. Reynolds. At the precise period when the successors of lord jNorth were enter-ing upon their tenure of office, a signal triumph of the British navywas taking place, which, had it occurred earlier, might have somewhataltered the course of party movements and of national feeling. Sir GeorgeEodney, at the beginning of the year, had left England to resume his com-mand on the West India station. He arrived at Barbadoes on the 19th ofFebruary, with twelve sail of the line. He would learn that the surrender ofSt. Christophers had taken place a week before his arrival. He would findthat of all the West India possessions of Great Britain only Jamaica, Bar-badoes, and Antigua remained. The united naval force of France and Spainin the West Indies amounted to sixty ships of the line ; and it was knoithat a formidable armament was preparing to att
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