The Windham papers; the life and correspondence of the Rt (1913) (14577123219)

Sarah Siddons
Identifier: windhampaperslif01wind (find matches)
Title: The Windham papers; the life and correspondence of the Rt
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Windham, William, 1750-1810 Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929
Subjects: Great Britain -- History George III, 1760-1820 Great Britain -- Politics and government 1783-1810
Publisher: London : Herbert Jenkins, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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mortification ofstanding single, and it flatters me with the hopes of thecontinuance of your friendship, on which I must set a highvalue whilst I have any regard for cultivated talentsunder the direction of virtue and candor, and under theinfluence of the finest feelings. These qualities wouldhave certainly made their way through the thorny andentangled labyrinth of the Castle, but are more pleasantlyexercised by the member for Norwich, who will servehis discerning constituents with the same spirit and in-tegrity that animated his elegant and manly address fortheir suffrages. With them you are to answer only foryour own conduct, in which you and they may alwaysjustly confide, but God knows for whom and for what a 1 Thomas, afterwards Baron, Erskine (1750-1823), Lord Chancellor1806. 2 Life and Letters of Lord Minto, i. 136. 3 John Hely-Hutchinson (1724-1794), Provost of Trinity College,Dublin, 1774. An active politician, and an advocate of Irish inde-pendence and Catholic Emancipation.
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Sir Win-. Beechey, R.A. SARAH SIDDONS 1793) A TROUBLESOME OFFICE 73 Secretary to a Lord Lieutenant may be responsible. Ihold this to be the most troublesome office in the BritishEmpire, which, comprising every department in theChurch, Law, State, Army and revenue, and both housesof parliament, is made more troublesome by the wildturbulence of the times. There is no intermediate bodyof men between the Castle and the people. The men ofproperty and in great offices have not the power ofrestraining, because they have little or no influence.These disorders, as you justly observe, may by theirexcess work their own cure. There have been some favor-able appearances of that kind in the metropolis and inother parts of the Kingdom. The great difficulty lieshere : this country is become free and must be governed,if peaceably governed, by considering its interest as theprimary object in all public deliberations. Of the interestof Ireland that of Great Britain should be certainly con-sidered as an