Anecdote Biography: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Edmund Burke

R. Bentley, 1862 - 392 pages

WILLIAM PITT EARL OF CHATHAM	1

PITT DISMISSED FROM THE ARMY BY SIR ROBERT WALPOLE	9

MR PITTS PITTICKS	16

MR PITTS GREAT SPEECH ON BRIBERY AT THE BERWICK ELECTION	22

HOW THE PITT MINISTRY WAS FORMED	28

STORIES OF A VACANT GARTER	35

THE FIRST GERM OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM	67

ATTACK ON LORD CHATHAM IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS BY THE DUKE	75

LORD CHATHAM DENOUNCES THE MONIED INTEREST	81

LORD CHATHAM AND JUNIUS	87

LORD CHATHAMS LAST APPEARANCE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS	95

COPLEYS PICTURE OF THE FALL OF LORD CHATHAM IN THE HOUSE	102

CHARACTERISTICS RETROSPECTIVE OPINIONS AND PERSONAL	110

INTREPIDITY OF LORD CHATHAM	118

DR ADDINGTON LORD CHATHAMS PHYSICIAN	125

MR PITT AND THE PRESS	139

BURKES APOTHEOSIS OF LORD CHATHAM	145

HAYES PLACE KENT	156

YBURKE AND HIS FRIEND RICHARD SHACKLETON	163

BURKE ARRIVES IN LONDON HIS FIRST VISIT TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY	169

BURKES ENGLISH HISTORY AND DODSLEYS ANNUAL REGISTER	181

BURKES HUMANITY	188

BURKE AND BARRY THE PAINTER	195

REPEAL OF THE AMERICAN STAMP	204

BURKE AND GOLDSMITH	210

A PHILOSOPHICAL SIMILE	286

GRANT OF A PENSION TO MR BURKE HIS DEFENCE OF	295

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH AND MR BURKE AT BEACONSFIELD	302

ON PAPER CURRENCY BURKE AND CANNING	308

THE EMIGRANT SCHOOL AT PENN	314

THE FUNERAL	320

BURKES LOVE OF THE COUNTRY	334

CHARACTER OF THE MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM	341

ALLEGED INSANITY OF BURKE	347

BURKES LETTER TO ADMIRAL KEPPEL THANKING	353

DANIEL OCONNELL ON EDMUND BURKE AND JUNIUS	359

THE DIMINUTIVE MINISTER	365

BUST AND PORTRAITS	374

APPENDIX	382

345	387

267	389

POLITICAL CONNEXION OF MR PITT AND MR WILKES	392

Title	Anecdote Biography: William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Edmund Burke
Author	John Timbs
Publisher	R. Bentley, 1862
Original from	Princeton University
Digitized	5 May 2009
Length	392 pages

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