Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853

Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Transcriber's Note: This text contains Greek and Hebrew characters. You may want to change fonts if these characters render as ? or boxes on your monitor. If your system allows for it, hovering over the text will show a transliteration. A few Saxon words also appear in this issue. Clicking on these words will take you to small graphics that display the typeface used in the original text. Archaic spellings have not been modernized. [We are enabled, by the kindness of their possessor, to lay before our readers copies of the following characteristic letters from the well-known Richard Rigby, Esq., who was for so many years the leader of the Bedford party in the House of Commons. They were addressed to Robert Fitzgerald, Esq., a member of the House of Commons in Ireland, and Judge of the Court of Admiralty in that country.] I arrived here last night, and find the Duke and Duchess, Marquis and Marchioness, all in perfect health. With my love to the Provost[1], tell him the chancellorship answers the intention to the utmost of his desire: we are wonderfully pleased with it. Tell him also that I do not find the defalcation amongst our friends to be as was represented in Dublin. Stanley is not, but has refused to be, ambassador to Berlin; Lord North is not, but has refused to be, vice-treasurer. The parliament meets on Tuesday: the ministers of the House of Commons, who are to be rechose, can get nobody who is in Parliament to read the king's speech for them at the Cockpit the night before. They, I believe, are in a damned dilemma: how much that makes for us time must show. Cooper is bribed to be Secretary of the Treasury, by 500l. a-year for his life, upon the 4-1/2 per cents, in the Leeward Islands, the same that Pitt's pension is upon. He remains for the present, however, at Bath. Calcraft will run Cooper hard at Rochester, against both Admiralty and Treasury. Wish Col. Draper joy for me of his red riband: he will have it next week with Mitchell, who returns to th{350}e King of Prussia. The poor young prince cannot live. I have time for no more. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 21220
Author: Various
Release Date: Apr 27, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Bell, George, 1814-1890