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A contemporaneous political memoir offers detailed, insider accounts of parliamentary debates, ministerial negotiations, scandals, elections, and colonial and legal controversies during the monarch's early reign. It combines narrative chronologies of events with vivid character sketches of leading politicians, court incidents, and public disturbances, and includes appended reflections on the literary climate of the period. The volume intersperses documentary extracts, opinionated commentary, and administrative correspondence to illuminate how personal character and factional maneuvering shaped policy and public life.

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Title: Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 3 (of 4)

Author: Horace Walpole

Editor: Denis Le Marchant

Release date: October 20, 2018 [eBook #58140]

Language: English

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MEMOIRS
OF THE REIGN OF
KING GEORGE THE THIRD.

VOL. III.


J. Cook, sc.

HON. CHARLES TOWNSHEND.

FROM THE ORIGINAL BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS.

London. Published by Richard Bentley 1845


MEMOIRS
OF THE REIGN OF
KING GEORGE THE THIRD.

By HORACE WALPOLE,
YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.
EDITED, WITH NOTES,
By Sir DENIS LE MARCHANT, Bart.

VOL. III.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1845.


LONDON:
Printed by S. & J. Bentley, Wilson, and Fley,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.