William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . TCALM AND WOLFE MONUMENT AT QUEBEC . I44 SIR EDWARD HAWKE ...... 152 VIEW OF MONTREAL IN I760 .... 160 THE EARL OF BUTE ...... I94 [From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.] HENRY FOX I98 [From the painting by Bentley.] AUGUSTA, PRINCESS OF WALES* . . 2o8[From the painting by J. B. Van Loo.] EARL TEMPLE 234 LORD ROCKINGHAM 238 [From the painting by B. Wilson.] FREDERICK THE GREAT ..... 280[From the engraving by Meyer.] LORD CHATHAM . 286 [From the painting by R. Brampton.] Copyright, Gibbings & Co.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . TCALM AND WOLFE MONUMENT AT QUEBEC . I44 SIR EDWARD HAWKE ...... 152 VIEW OF MONTREAL IN I760 .... 160 THE EARL OF BUTE ...... I94 [From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.] HENRY FOX I98 [From the painting by Bentley.] AUGUSTA, PRINCESS OF WALES* . . 2o8[From the painting by J. B. Van Loo.] EARL TEMPLE 234 LORD ROCKINGHAM 238 [From the painting by B. Wilson.] FREDERICK THE GREAT ..... 280[From the engraving by Meyer.] LORD CHATHAM . 286 [From the painting by R. Brampton.] Copyright, Gibbings & Co. Illustrations Ix PAGE STATUE OF LORD MANSFIELD, ST. STEPHENS HALL, WESTMINSTER* ...... 306 [By E. H. Bailey, ] EDMUND BURKE 324 [From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.] GEORGE III 334 [From a painting by Allan Ramsay, in the Na-tional Portrait Gallery.] HORACE WALPOLe^ 340 [From the painting by N. Hone, in the NationalPortrait Gallery.] BENJAMIN FRANKLIN . . . 348 [After the painting by Duplessis.] * Copyright, Sir Benjamin Stone.•^ Copyright, Walker & COAT OF ARMS. INTRODUCTION. THERE is no good biography of Lord Chatham ;The History of William Pitt^ Earl of Chatham^pubhshed in 1827 by the Rev. Francis Thack-eray, and the Anecdotes collected by Almon thePrinter, are both of them fragmentary and former served as a text for Lord Macaulaysfamous essays, which are the most spirited accountsof Chathams career. In Mr. Leckys History ofEnglajid in the Eighteenth Century there is a sketchof Chathams life, and I desire to acknowledge theobligation which every writer on this period mustowe to that great work. The Correspondence ofWilliam Pitt, Earl of Chatham^ edited by the ex-ecutors of his son, exasperates the student by itsomissions, but is none the less a valuable is to be hoped that the full correspondence willone day be given to the world. I have to thankLord Lansdowne for permitting me to use somevolumes of his Manuscripts, and Lord
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