England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . heaven send us men to ruleWith better heads and hearts. Then to New Palace Yard let us go, let us go. At the same time there was much rioting in differ-ent parts of the country, against the exportation offlour, and for other supposed grievances. A little later,in May, when the ministerial embarrassments com-menced, the London weavers arose in great numbers,and attacked the house of the Duke of Bedford, whomthey accused of having negotiated the obnoxious peacewhich had brought French silks an
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . heaven send us men to ruleWith better heads and hearts. Then to New Palace Yard let us go, let us go. At the same time there was much rioting in differ-ent parts of the country, against the exportation offlour, and for other supposed grievances. A little later,in May, when the ministerial embarrassments com-menced, the London weavers arose in great numbers,and attacked the house of the Duke of Bedford, whomthey accused of having negotiated the obnoxious peacewhich had brought French silks and poverty into theland, and they were not dispersed without bloodshed. The rest of the year passed over quietly; and a few i7r)5.] THE COURIER. 429 caricjitiircs witliout niTicli point, shew that there wasthe latent will to stir up mischief, witliout the resolu-tion to act. The party who had been thrown out ofpower began to exert themselves to destroy thereviving popularity of Pitt, and some attacks weremade upon him in print, accompanied by severalcaricatures. One of these, under the title of The. THE COURIER. Courier, makes a joke of the Duke of Cumberlandsunsuccessful visit to the gouty foot at Hayes: the signis that of a blown bladder, inscribed Popularity,with the further inscription By W. P.^ underneath. When the parliament re-opened in January, 1766,the gout was gone, and Pitt again made his appearancein the house, and delivered one of his grand condemned all the measures of the late ministry,and stigmatized in the strongest terms the attempt totax the Americans, in which the king in his opening-speech had just recommended the house to expressed his personal regard for the members ofthe new administration, but declared his want of con-fidence in it as a ministry; and then burst into aneloquent attack upon the secret influence, which heintimated had paralyzed his own efforts in the serviceof the country, and had been the cause of all the mis- 43
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