Search -
In the Shadow of the Purple; A Royal Romance
In the Shadow of the Purple A Royal Romance Author:George Gilbert General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1902 Original Publisher: John Long Subjects: Fiction / Romance / General Fiction / Romance / Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary Fiction / Romance / Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no ill... more »ustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE " Come, lad, ont with it! Is it a debt or a wench ? " In the year 1783, in the month of January, the celebrated coalition of Mr Fox and Lord North, rabid Whig and rabid Tory, began to be freely whispered about. On the and of April an administration was formed of which the Duke of Portland was the nominal head and the new allies the real. The coalition would not have been one quarter so unpopular nor so condemned as it was, but for the weight of the King's dislike being thrown in the balance against it, for he hated Fox, his hatred dating back to the clandestine marriage controversy thirteen years before. So great was this loathing that when Fox's India Bill was to be read in the House of Lords a second time, a note was privately circulated by Lord Temple, written in his Majesty's own hand, stating, "That he would deem those who voted in favour of the Bill as not only not his friends, but his enemies." A nine days' scandal was created by the Prince of Wales marching as a proud ornament of the Whig peers, but the Bill was defeated by a majority of eight. On the night of the i8th of December his Majesty uncerimoniously dismissed his Ministers, and in due time the immaculate William Pitt blossomed into Prime Minister at the age of twenty-five, ripened thus early by the sun of the kingly smile. Generosity to a fallen foe was now conspicuous by its absence. It was not enough for t...« less