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Parliamentary History, xxiii., 895. Mr. Grenville imposes a Duty on Stamps in the North American Colonies. Examination of Dr. Franklin. Lord Rockingham's Ministry Repeals the Duty. Lord Mansfield affirms a Virtual Representation in the Colonies. Mr. C. Townsend imposes Import Duties in America. After some Years, the Civil War breaks out. Hanoverian Troops are sent to Gibraltar.
On the 10th of July in that year Lord Rockingham became Premier, and a week later Burke, through the good offices of an admiring friend who had come to know him in the newly-founded Turk's Head Club, became Rockingham's private secretary. He was now the mainstay, if not the inspirer, of Rockingham's policy of pacific compromise in the vexed questions between England and the American colonies.
A long time ago, when times was good, the net earnings used to run as high as eighteen dollars a week. Colonel Rockingham's land has been sold for taxes thirteen times. There hasn't been a peach crop in this part of Georgia for two years. The wet spring killed the watermelons.
Grenville's statement, that Lord Campbell asserts that "Lord Mansfield, without entering into systematic opposition, had been much alienated from the court during Lord Rockingham's first administration." The week before, on Mr. Powys's motion for a united and efficient administration, the majority had been 20 197 to 177. On a motion made by Mr.
When Parliament met after Rockingham's death, gossips noticed that Fox and Burke continued, long after the Speaker had taken the chair, to walk backwards and forwards in the Court of Bequests, engaged in earnest conversation. According to one story, Burke was very reluctant to abandon an office whose emoluments were as convenient to him as to his spendthrift colleague.
Lonely as he was, the ministry which had rejected his offers of aid found itself unable to stand against the general sense that the first man in the country should be its ruler; and bitter as was the king's hatred of him, Rockingham's resignation in the summer of 1766 forced George to call Pitt into office.
My circle around the fire in the card room breaks up at about twelve, and the Duke of Q. generally joins us towards the conclusion, and when he has talked himself out of breath at Brooks's. Charles dined yesterday, I believe, at Lord Rockingham's; I saw him about five in great hurry, and agitation. Negotiations for peace are much talked of.
He can diminish the number, if he should think fit, as he did in 1782, when, on the termination of the American war, he forbore to appoint a successor to Lord George Germaine, in Lord Rockingham's administration; or he can increase the numbers, as he did in 1794, when he revived the third Secretaryship, which he had suppressed twelve years before, without any act of Parliament being passed to direct either the suspension or the revival.
This time no sleepy or careless man challenged me. It was Rockingham's voice. "May I not enter my own room?" I whispered. "This is not your room. You are?" Rockingham sprang up in his berth, but before he could leave it I was upon him. "I am Arthur Marcel. And this iron ring which I press against your left ear is the muzzle of my revolver.
I put my right arm under the man's shoulders and raised the upper part of his body from the berth. Then a desperate wrench with my left arm, and there was a dull crack like the snapping of a dry stick. It was over. Rockingham's neck was broken. I wiped away the bloody froth that oozed from the gaping mouth, and tried to compose decently the contorted figure. I covered the face.
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