carnock

Updated: May 31, 2025

I mentioned this remark to Lord Carnock. He smiled and made answer, "What charming nonsense!" I asked him what he thought was in my friend's mind. "Oh, I see what he meant," was the answer; "but it is a wild mind that would say any one man made the war."

Harold Begbie - The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster

He was their friend in a darkness which had begun to alarm them, a darkness which made them conscious of their country's weakness, and which brought to their ears again and again the rumbles of approaching storm. Lord Carnock, sincerely loving these people, received their confidence as one friend receives the confidence of another. His advice was honourable advice.

Harold Begbie - The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster

This may be said without revealing any State secret or breaking any private confidence: As Sir Arthur Nicolson, our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Lord Carnock won for England, as no other man had done before him, the love of Russia. The rulers of Russia trusted him.

Harold Begbie - The Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster

Witness Mr. Gallespie, minister at Carnock, who was deposed May, 1752: and against all violent intruders, who, not entering by the door, can be regarded only as thieves and robbers; John x, 1.

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