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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
…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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