Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nclusion of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Pelhamcarried out a number of useful reforms. He took advan-tage of the prosperity of the country and reduced the rate ofinterest on the National Debt from four to three per 1752, on the motion of Lord Chesterfield, the calendarwas reformed (p. 477), and the following year Lord Hard-wickes Marriage Act (p. 478), a measure for the pre-vention of clandestine mar
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . nclusion of the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle Pelhamcarried out a number of useful reforms. He took advan-tage of the prosperity of the country and reduced the rate ofinterest on the National Debt from four to three per 1752, on the motion of Lord Chesterfield, the calendarwas reformed (p. 477), and the following year Lord Hard-wickes Marriage Act (p. 478), a measure for the pre-vention of clandestine marriages, was passed, and also anAct for the naturalisation of the Jews, which, however, owingto the popular outcry, Avas repealed the following session. In 1754 the death of Henry Pelham put an end to theperiod of tranquillity in party life which his conciliatorypolicy had brought about, and George prediction thathe would have no more peace proved absolutely true. TheDuke of Newcastle, Pelhams elder brother, became head ofthe ministry. Though personally honest, and unequalled in * Pitt shortly afterwards became Paymaster-General of the Forces. A ?Kf).vii:cT OF THE NEW JeRU5ALEM. ln/jtJ,ur iij/i; •in /i/J El/t/mi, j t/ir t/iit //i,Ji-fr,f i7Hi^^rj/r/rr/iEn^/MJeriJ! 7*^/^ ,?.!////;?£, ! //if/^ ?7ri- jfi^m///! ri:-,-//^/iy>!//i I/.-^i /r/z/y in ///- P/y/.-irMr I Jib AXTI-SEMITISil IX 1753. 232 AX Eli A OF SEW DErAUTrHES. Tlie Devonshire PittAdministration. The Reign ofGeorge III. 11742 experience of business and parliamentary niana^cnient. lio madea serious mistake in appointing Sir Thomas Robinson, a dullman, leader of the House of Commons, where he became theobject of attacks by Pitt and Henry Fox. In 1755 Fox tookRobinsons place and became Secretary of State, and in theautunm Pitt and Legge, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, weredismissed for opposing the Russian and Hessian subsi(Hes. Theloss of Minorca in May, 1756, roused the popular anger
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