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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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(da) which he took every opportunity of displaying. ‘Bute is a fine, showy man,’ said the father of George III., ‘and would make an excellent Ambas- sador in a Court where there is no business.’ By birth a Scotchman, he dispensed his pa- tronage solely to the Scotch, whose rebellion in 1745 was still unforgotten and unpardoned. He concluded ignominious treaties with France and Spain ; expended sixty thousand pounds on bribery ; turned out all the holders of office, from the greatest dignitaries down to the smallest officials, to replace them by his nominees ; and contrived to drag down the King’s mother and the King himself to the level of his own unpopularity. The Lord Chamberlain, the Duke of Devonshire, was stopped on the steps of St. James’s Palace and peremptorily ordered to deliver up the key of his office; a poor man was deprived of his pension which he received from the late Government for having distinguished himself in a fray with smug- glers; and a housekeeper was dismissed from her post in a public office for no other reason than that she had been appointed by the previous Administration. To win the public over to his views, Bute caused a journal, The Briton, to be founded. The name of this periodical was probably inspired
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