Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on references
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 The Accession of Newcastle, March–September 1754
- 2 The Defeat of the Pitt–Fox Alliance, October 1754–March 1755
- 3 The Reconstruction of the Ministry, April–September 1755: Leicester House and the Recruitment of Fox
- 4 ‘That Exploded Trick’: Newcastle, Fox and the Defeat of Leicester House Patriotism, October 1755–March 1756
- 5 The Resignation of Newcastle, April–October 1756
- 6 The Pitt–Devonshire Ministry, October 1756–March 1757
- 7 ‘The Arbiter of England’: the Formation of the Newcastle–Pitt Coalition, April–June 1757
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - The Reconstruction of the Ministry, April–September 1755: Leicester House and the Recruitment of Fox
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on references
- Abbreviations
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 The Accession of Newcastle, March–September 1754
- 2 The Defeat of the Pitt–Fox Alliance, October 1754–March 1755
- 3 The Reconstruction of the Ministry, April–September 1755: Leicester House and the Recruitment of Fox
- 4 ‘That Exploded Trick’: Newcastle, Fox and the Defeat of Leicester House Patriotism, October 1755–March 1756
- 5 The Resignation of Newcastle, April–October 1756
- 6 The Pitt–Devonshire Ministry, October 1756–March 1757
- 7 ‘The Arbiter of England’: the Formation of the Newcastle–Pitt Coalition, April–June 1757
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
…the Duke of Newcastle was absolute. He had all the advice from wise heads that could make him get the better of rivals, and all the childishness in himself that could make them ashamed of his having got the better. If his fickleness could have been tied down to any stability, his power had been endless. Yet, as it often happens, the puny can shake, where the mighty have been foiled – nor Pitt, nor Fox, were the engines that made the Duke of Newcastle's power totter.
Walpole, George II, 11, 35.Pitt ‘told me himself in 1767, that the world were much mistaken in thinking that he did not like patronage, for he was but a little man in 1755, and was obliged to act the part he did…’
Shelburne in Fitzmaurice, Shelburne, 1,59.There are so many wheels within wheels that no eye can see the whole, and such unsteadiness in people's conduct (to give it the gentlest name) that from knowing what a man's connections are today you can scarce guess what they will be tomorrow.
Stormont to Huntingdon, 20 Oct 1755: HMG Hastings, 111, 106.THE KING'sS DEPARTURE, APRIL 1755
Early in April, Newcastle learned from Fox through West of the speech and motion which Lord Poulett intended to make against George IPs leaving for Hanover.
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- The Dynamics of ChangeThe Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems, pp. 153 - 195Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982