England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . e administration as it had formerly been with thatof the Duke of Newcastle. This statesman seems tohave been equally remarkable for the looseness of hisprivate morals, and the dishonesty of his public conduct;and, during the long period he held the lucrativeoffice of paymaster of the forces, he became extrava-gantly rich out of the plunder of the public 1769, the petition of the city of London for the redress of public grievancesadverted especially to hisdefalcations, and stigmati-z
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . e administration as it had formerly been with thatof the Duke of Newcastle. This statesman seems tohave been equally remarkable for the looseness of hisprivate morals, and the dishonesty of his public conduct;and, during the long period he held the lucrativeoffice of paymaster of the forces, he became extrava-gantly rich out of the plunder of the public 1769, the petition of the city of London for the redress of public grievancesadverted especially to hisdefalcations, and stigmati-zed him as the public de-faulter of unaccounted mil-lions, an expression whichwas long attached to hismemory. In one of thecaricatures which appearedbefore Newcastles resigna-tion, entitled The StateNursery, where the Buteministry are occupied inchildrens games. Fox, asthe whipper-in of the mi-nisterial majority in theCommons, is mounted on the back of Bute— First you see old sly Volpone-yRiding on the shoulders brawnyOf the muckle favourite Sawney. The Duke of Newcastle is employed in rocking the. THE FOX ELEVATED. PROPOSALS FOR PEACE. 405 1762.] cradle. From this time Fox and Bute are constantlyjoined together, and even after they had been drivenfrom ostensible power, they were popularly believedto share in secret influence. In another caricature,entitled The ever-memorable Peace-Makers settlingtheir accounts, Fox and Bute are joined in a trio withthe King. The book in which Fox is writing bearsthe inscription Unaccounted Millions; and the rollsbefore the King are entitled West Indies, NorthAmerica, Manillas, &c. In the original print, thedevil, with an axe in one hand (the reward of treason),holds the inkstand, from which Fox replenishes hispen.
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