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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER XL; TO LORD NORTH. MY LORD, Angust 22, 1770. -IVlR. Luttrell's services were the chief support and ornament of the Duke of Graf- ton's administration. The honour of rewarding them was reserved for your Lordship. The Duke, it seems, had contracted an obligation he was ashamed to acknowledge, and unable to acquit. You, my Lord, had no scruples. You accepted the succession with all its incumbrances, and have paid Mr. Luttrell his legacy, at the hazard of ruining the estate. When this accomplished youth declared himself the champion of government, the world was busy, enquiring what honours or emoluments could be a sufficient recompence to a young man of his rank and fortune, for submitting to mark his entrance into life with the universal contempt and detestation of his country. His noble father ha'd not been so precipitate. To vacate his seat in ParUament; to intrude upon a country in which he had no interest or connec7;-n, .t. H-IL-eJ.itJ'outiylfiii' ifi tion; to possess himself of another man's right, ad to maintain it in defiance of public shame, as well as justice, bespoke a degree of zeal, or of depravity, which all the favour of a pious Prince could hardly requite. I protest, my Lord, there is in this young man's conduct a strain of prostitution, which, for its singularity, I cannot but admire. He has discovered a new line in the human character; he has degraded even the name of Luttrell, and gratified his father's most sanguine expectations. The Duke of Grafton, with every possible disposition to patronize this kind of merit, was contented with pronouncing Colonel Luttrell's panegyric. The gallant spirit, the disinterested leal, of the young adventurer, were echoed through the House of Lords. His Grace repeatedly pledged himself to the House, as an eviden...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217956611 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217956610 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 172 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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