Walpole and Chatham (1714-1760)

The fact is thus: It having been many years since COPPER HALFPENCE OR FARTHINGS were last coined in this kingdom, they have been for some time very scarce, and many counterfeits...

The frigate all the time of the engagement lay at such a small distance, that (as the Prince observed to several friends in Scotland) the _Lion_ might have sunk her with the gre...

[24] In illustration of this, and as a great statesman's verdict on a great period, it seems not inappropriate to quote here the famous story of Carteret's death, as told by Rob...

"The feast of Easter, and the moveable feasts thereon depending, shall be no longer observed according to the method of supputation now used, or the table prefixed to the book o...

This having been the cry of the country gentlemen and landowners for some time, Sir Robert Walpole thought he could not do a more popular thing than to form a scheme by which th...

Here it was [upon the coast of Glenelg] that the _Chevalier_ went through one of the oddest Adventures, that perhaps ever happened to any Man; for at this place a Company of Mil...

This being the case, as I am afraid it is, that we can neither secure our constitution at home, nor make a prosperous war abroad, whilst Sir Robert has the sole direction of our...

_August 6_, O.S.--Early in the Morning, on the 30th of _July_, as we were standing in for _Messina_, we saw two Scouts of the _Spanish_ fleet in the _Faro_, very near us; and at...

_Sept. 25._--On Monday last (Sept. 20th) King George (as he is styled) with his son (who is in the 31st year of his age, and is called prince of Wales, he having been so created...

This series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuabl...

Pitt was now arrived at undisturbed possession of that influence in affairs at which his ambition had aimed, and which his presumption had made him flatter himself he could exer...