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He must repurchase Hayes. The unwilling consent of the new occupant was extorted by Lady Chatham's entreaties and tears; and her lord was somewhat easier. But if business were mentioned to him, he, once the proudest and boldest of mankind, behaved like a hysterical girl, trembled from head to foot, and burst into a flood of tears.
Seventeen years ago this people was the terror of the world." He listened impatiently to the reply of the Duke of Richmond, and again rose to his feet. But he had hardly risen when he pressed his hand upon his heart, and falling back in a swoon was borne home to die. How well founded was Chatham's faith in the power of Britain was seen in the strife that now opened.
The apparent success of Chatham's administration has plunged the country deeper in debt than all the barren acres of Canada are worth, were they as fertile as Yorkshire the dazzling lustre of the victories of Minden and Quebec have been dimmed by the disgrace of the hasty peace by the war, England, at immense expense, gained nothing but honour, and that she has gratuitously resigned.
A colonial assembly was directed to meet and provide means by which America might contribute towards the payment of the public debt. Chatham's measure was contemptuously rejected by the Lords, as was a similar measure of Burke's by the House of Commons, and a petition of the City of London in favour of the Colonies by the king himself.
It was indeed an anomalous situation. If Lord Chatham's policies were still to be considered those of the ministry, Mr. Townshend might be said to be in opposition, a circumstance which made "many people think Lord Chatham ill at St. James's" only. Lord Chatham was not ill at St. James's. He was most likely very well at St.
He was a public man in all the greatness of the phrase the soul of a nation personified in an individual the inspiration of the nation in the heart of a patrician. His oratory had something as grand as action it was the heroic in language. The echo of Lord Chatham's discourses were heard felt on the Continent.
He might go that way; but no! at the base of the Druid mound he perceived a group of townsfolk and rustics staring at the flank of the building staring apparently at him. He recoiled; then he remembered that Lord Chatham's rooms lay in that wing, and also looked over the gardens.
Yet this era of national dishonour and public disgust was followed by the three years of Chatham's administration, a period of triumph that equaled the campaigns of Marlborough at the commencement of the century, and was scarcely eclipsed even by the splendours that followed its close. The skill and talent of young Jervis had already given him distinction among the rising officers of the feet.
That fleet had been greatly neglected at the Admiralty during Lord Chatham's administration: and it did not, for some time, feel the beneficial effect of his removal. Lord Hood had gone home to represent the real state of affairs, and solicit reinforcements adequate to the exigencies of the time, and the importance of the scene of action.
Till such a trial had been made, with all the advantages that the magic of his name could give it in England and America alike, he would not bow to a need that must wreck the great Empire his hand had built up. Even at this hour there was a chance of success for such a policy; but on the eve of Chatham's return to office this chance was shattered by the hand of death.
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