Memoir of the Public Life of the Right Hon. John Charles Herries in the Reigns of George III., George IV., William IV. and Victoria, Volum 1J. Murray, 1880 |
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Side 130 - He accepted the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and the king's sturdy friend, Lord Thurlow, was reinstated as Lord Chancellor.
Side 217 - Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers into false creation ; — where, Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized ? In him alone.
Side 128 - In the meanwhile intrigues were set on foot. George IV., who personally hated me, did not fancy me as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He wanted to have Herries in that office. There were questions coming on about palaces and crown lands which the King was very anxious about, and he wished either to have a creature of his own at the Exchequer, or to have the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer held by the First Lord, whose numerous occupations would compel him to leave details very much to George Harrison,...
Side 166 - I owe it to you to state explicitly that the grounds assumed in that paragraph for the delay in the appointment of Chancellor of the Exchequer are totally destitute of foundation, and that they involve an imputation upon you which I shall be prepared at all times to deny in the most peremptory manner, be they asserted by -whom they may. Ever, my dear Herries, most sincerely yours,
Side 16 - Lowe did not vacate his seat on becoming Home Secretary instead of Chancellor of the Exchequer. But Gladstone took a new office without giving up an old one. He remained First Lord of the Treasury as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and eminent lawyers were of opinion that he had ceased to be member for Greenwich.
Side 37 - Everything in the way of intrenching and cutting tools supplied by his department is so bad as to be almost useless ; and indeed all the stores supplied by this department are nearly...
Side 216 - Majesty's intentions and commands,' says Nash, ' were to convert Buckingham House into a private residence for himself. . . . The late King constantly persisted that he would not build a palace. . . . One day .... his Majesty took me to Lord Farnborough and said good-humouredly, "Long, now remember, I tell Nash before you at his peril ever to advise me to build a palace. If the public wish to have a palace I have no objection to build one, but I must have a pieda-terre" . . . .' Buckingham Palace...
Side 92 - were immediately carried into effect ; the issue took place and had the effect of instantly providing the requisite supply of circulating medium in Germany and Russia, which passed at par with specie through all the North of Europe. To the supply of money obtained and the extension of credit effected by this bold, and withal wise and necessary, step, at the critical moment when it was most required, and when all human efforts but for it must have been unavailing, the successful issue of the war...
Side 141 - ... at the rate of 4 per cent, upon the amount of the Revenue, it can hardly be a subject of much surprise, and still less of despondency.
Side 118 - ... Ireland, and all reductions in the component parts of the establishments maintained for securing it, must depend greatly upon the degree in which these suggestions, which embrace so large a change in the constitution of the whole, may be adopted. They will be comprised under the following heads : — I. The incorporation of the British and Irish establishments for the collection of the public income, in such a manner as to place each description of the revenue throughout the United Kingdom, under...