Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3)

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The memoir presents a chronological account of mid-eighteenth-century British political and military crises, detailing unsuccessful diplomacy with France, the escalation to war in Europe and America including a disastrous colonial campaign, and naval setbacks that provoked a contentious court-martial and execution. It records heated parliamentary debates, party rivalries and ministerial resignations and appointments, controversies over foreign auxiliaries, militia and naval manpower, and negotiations affecting Hanover and continental alliances. Alongside campaign and diplomatic reportage, it offers assessments of administrative failures, factional maneuvering, and how imperial warfare reshaped domestic politics and royal household disputes.

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[68] Duke of Cumberland.

[69] He once, before Lord Waldegrave, said to the Prince, who excused his own inapplication on the foot of idleness, “Sir, yours is not idleness; your brother Edward is idle, but you must not call being asleep all day being idle.”

[70] On the removal of Sir Robert Walpole, the King had consented to make the Earls of Northampton and Ailesbury Dukes, but neither having a son, they declined that honour.

[71] That partiality was not cordial, but founded on their hatred to Fox, and probably from secret intimations that the Princess, who meant to adopt them, was inclined to Pitt, and abhorred Fox for his connexion with the Duke of Cumberland.

[72] A spurious speech having been vended for the King’s, it was complained of, I think by Lord Sandwich, in the House of Lords, and the authors punished; Lord Hardwicke still taking the lead very dictatorially, but occasionally flattering Pitt on the composition of the true one.