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Get this from a library! A letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke:Paymaster general of his Majesty's forces. Major John Scott. [Scott, Major]
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, occaisioned his Reflections on the Revolution in
The impeachment, which is now generally regarded as an injustice to Hastings (who was ultimately acquitted), is the most conspicuous illustration of the failings to which Burke was liable throughout his public life, including his brief periods in office as paymaster general of the forces in 1782 and 1783. His political positions were sometimes
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A Noble Lord Edmund Burke (1795,1796).My Lord, I could hardly flatter myself with the hope that so very early in the season I should have to acknowledge obligations to the Duke of Bedford, and to the Earl of Lauderdale. These noble persons have lost no time in conferring upon me that sort of honour which it is alone within their competence, and which it is certainly most congenial to
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Richard Rig PC (February 1722 8 April 1788), was an English civil servant and politician who sat in the British House of Commons for 43 years from 1745 to 1788. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland and Paymaster of the Forces.Rig accumulated a fortune serving the Crown and politician wheeler-dealers in the dynamic 18th century parliament, and this money eventually ended up endowing
The Office of the Paymaster-General occupies, for the greater part, the site of a shall succeed you in your Office of Pay Master of the Forces, Your two office Kip's view of Whitehall (Plate 1) shows the old Pay Office on the extreme right. (fn. N35) It will be noticed that it includes a slip of ground (marked the letters a, b,
Everyone claims Edmund Burke as his patron saint, political forefather, lodestar and compass point, ancestral bulwark against the tide of whatever seething modern ill he despises. The right wing trumpets Burke, who excoriated the murderous rebellion in France; the left wing salutes Burke, who
The Paymaster of the Forces was a position in the British government.The office was established 1661 one year after the Restoration of the Monarchy to King Charles II, and was responsible for part of the financing of the British Army, in the improved form created Oliver Cromwell during the Commonwealth.The full title was Paymaster-General of His Majesty's Forces.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke Until you make out practically that great work, a combination of opposing forces, a work of labor long, and endless praise, the utmost caution ought to have been used in the reduction of the royal power, which alone was capable of holding together the
Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke From the many just sentiments interspersed through the letter before me, and from the whole tendency of it, I should believe you to be a good, though a vain man, if some circumstances in your conduct did not render the inflexibility of your integrity doubtful; and for this vanity a knowledge of
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797. [1775], and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol [1777]. The fall of North led to Rockingham being recalled to power, which, however, he held for a few months only, dying in the end of 1782, during which period Burke held the office of Paymaster of the Forces, and was made a Privy Councillor. The Works of the
Upon becoming prime minister in March 1782, the Marquis of Rockingham appointed Lord Cavendish as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Edmund Burke as paymaster general of the British forces. Burke fulfilled the duties of this office for only a few months turning in his resignation following the death of Rockingham in July of that year.
Get this from a library! A letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, paymaster general of His Majesty's forces. [Scott, Major; Edmund Burke]
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Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is chiefly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the struggle against King George III that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to
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Burke's Writings and Speeches, Volume the Twelfth, Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOLUME THE TWELFTH London Volume the Twelfth, Edmund Burke. IN GENERAL REPLY. FIFTH DAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1794. His letter was unquestionably dictated to him the prisoner. We have laid a ground of
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