William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . , but on the Planta-tion Act, which naturalised Jews after a residenceof seven years in any of the American colonies, Pel-ham remained firm and Pitt spoke for the report of his speech as remains shows thathe held a characteristically English compromise onmatters of ecclesiastical policy. Here the stand must be made or venit summa dies, weshould have a Church spirit revived. The late clamourwas only a little election art, which was courteouslygiven way to. The former Bill was not a tolerance
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778; . , but on the Planta-tion Act, which naturalised Jews after a residenceof seven years in any of the American colonies, Pel-ham remained firm and Pitt spoke for the report of his speech as remains shows thathe held a characteristically English compromise onmatters of ecclesiastical policy. Here the stand must be made or venit summa dies, weshould have a Church spirit revived. The late clamourwas only a little election art, which was courteouslygiven way to. The former Bill was not a tolerance ofbut a preference given to Jews over other sects. Mymaxim is not to do more for the Church than it now en-joys. Now you would except the Jews in the oppositeextreme ; it is the Jew to-day ; it would be the Pres-byterian to-morrow : we should be sure to have a septen-nial Church clamour. We are not now to be influenced byold laws enacted before the Reformation : our ancestorswould have said, * A Lollard has no right to inheritlands. * * Walpoles Memoirs of George II. (1847), !•> 3^ CHAPTER III. PITT ATTAINS POWER. 1754-1757. HENRY PELHAM died on March 6, 1754, andthe Duke of Newcastle was left to fight thefamily battles by himself. There had beenmany feuds within the Cabinet, but the brothersrarely failed to compose their differences when anyconsiderable enemy threatened their hegemony overthe Whig connections; they many times ceased tohold any intercourse with each other, but alwaysemployed some amiable intermediary, through whomcommunication might be made, and by whom recon-ciliation might be effected when the hour of dangerarrived. Government by Cabinet has frequentlyrequired the exercise of moderating and healingqualities, by such colleagues of the great as arenaturally fitted to perform the functions of a buffer-state between rival and encroaching Powers. ThePelhams had found Hardwicke invaluable for such apurpose, and the Chancellor still survived to be theconfid
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