| No. 5. | Saturday, December 1, 1849. | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
Original Letter, written on the Resignation of Mr. Pitt, in 1761--Public Feeling on the Subject, and Changes at Court in consequence--First Impressions of Queen Charlotte.
[The following valuable original letter is now published for the firsttime. It will be found to be of very considerable historical curiosityand interest. The resignation of the Great Commoner in 1761, and hisacceptance at the same time of a pension and a peerage for his family,were events which astonished his admirers as much as any thing else inhis wonderful career. Even now, after the recent publication of all theletters relating to these transactions, it is difficult to put anyconstruction on Mr. Pitt's conduct which is consistent with thehigh-spirited independence which one desires to believe to have been aleading feature of his character. There may have been great subtlety inthe way in which he was tempted; that may be admitted even by thestoutest defenders of the character of George III; but nothin