Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second : From His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline 2
Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second : From His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline 2
Croker, John Wilson, 1780-1857
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VOL, II. Z Digitized by VjOOQ IC 338 LOBD HERVEY'S MEMOIRS. Chap. XXXII. parliamentary consideration, not only have remembered, but endeavoured to repay, this obligation. When the Bill, with all these alterations, came back to the House of Lords, the Duke of Argyle opposed its passing, even thus blunted, as strongly as he had done before its edge was so effectually taken off; and took this opportunity to evacuate his long silent and treasured spleen against the Duke of Newcastle in so barefaced... and provoking a manner, that most people condemned the one for offering this affront, and everybody the other for not resenting it He begaii with turning the Bill, as it now stood, into ridicule ; and then, directing his eyes 4 and his words to the Duke of Newcastle, said " it would be a very dangerous precedent to punish everybody in office for not acting as if they had sense ; of the two it would be more reasonable to punish those who put them there ; but he was not for punishing either ; for everybody knew that there might be very good reasons for giving people employments in the State besides their having sense : they might have great titles, great estates, great property, great zeal to serve whoever * This seems to imply that Lord Hervey was present at the scene, bat it is certain that either on the reality or pretence of his father's illness (see post, 345), he was at Ickworth about the middle of June, when the bill came back from the Commons ; and Lord Bristol afterwards wrote to Lord Hervey — " It has been told me with strong assurance that you have been severely frowned on at Court lor pretending you were sent for by an express from hence, that I might see you before I died ; whereas, it seems, it has been found out that you had only a mind by your absence at that juncture to avoid being concerned in the Scotch afrair." The generous old Earl goes on to say, that if the King's displeasure should make Lord Hervey wish to leave his servile, disparaging connexion with those selfish, ungrateful people, which he always detected, "you shall always be sure to find not only my house and arms open to receive you and yours with the utmost joy and tenderness, but my purse too, to enable you to live quite as well as you do, let the difference be what it will/' Digitized by LiOOQ IC 1787.
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