William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . * Bath and Granville gave directly opposite former coming out of the Kings closet said toHarrington: * I have advised the King to negativethe appointment of Mr. Pitt, and to pursue propermeasures on the Continent. Those who dictate inprivate, was the reply, should be employed inpublic. The Ministers resolved to show the Kingthat he could not carry on the Government withoutthem, and at the same time to make a striking pro-test against secret dealings with Bath. Harrington,Newcastle, Pelham,
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . * Bath and Granville gave directly opposite former coming out of the Kings closet said toHarrington: * I have advised the King to negativethe appointment of Mr. Pitt, and to pursue propermeasures on the Continent. Those who dictate inprivate, was the reply, should be employed inpublic. The Ministers resolved to show the Kingthat he could not carry on the Government withoutthem, and at the same time to make a striking pro-test against secret dealings with Bath. Harrington,Newcastle, Pelham, and all the important membersof the Ministry resigned. The King at once sentfor Bath and Granville, who set about making anadministration that was to be supported by their col-lective forces of thirty-one peers and eighty common-ers. For two days, said the wits, it was unsafeto be abroad in the streets for fear of being pressedfor a Cabinet Counsellor. f The uneven struggle was *Coxes Horace^ Lord Walpole, ii., 140. I Pitt ten years later made a characteristic reference to this briefest. GEORGE II. FROM THE PAINTING BY BENTLEY. 1754] Walpole, Carteret, Pel ham. 39 quickly ended ; the King was forced to talce back hisrebelHous servants and to yield to their request,which they had made a matter of principle, that Pittshould receive a post. He did not become Secretaryof War, but was made Vice-Treasurer of Ireland onFebruary 22, 1746, and shortly afterwards was giventhe lucrative and important place of Paymaster-General. Newcastle, writing to Chesterfield an ac-count of this official earthquake, gives an amusingpicture of George affronted dignity when Pittwas thus pressed upon him. ^ The King insistedthat he would not make Pitt Secretary of War; after-wards that he would use him ill if he had it, and atlast that he would give him the office, but would notadmit him into his presence to do the business of . Mr. Pitt very decently and honourably author-ised us to renounce a
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