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Written on two sides, with a conjugate blank leaf. Clean slit along part of central fold without loss, traces of hinge mounting on inner rear margin. 18.5 x 15.5cm. 'Temples [Temple Luttrell] & Wolseleys [Charles Wolseley] Committee is just over and the Election is given for them, business goes on very well, we have had late Days at the House of Lds. & Coms & likely to be a very arduous Session. I wish you were in Parliament as I know yr. Warmth & friendship of old. Our compliments to all with you let me hear from you whether there is a chance of yr. Coming this Winter to Town. I hear the Dk of Northumberland is very ill and we shall soon have a vacancy from Westminster the Duke has joined us on a Mtion of Ld. Chatham. Opposition is quite alive & Ministers have proposed the most arbitrary measures that ever passed a House of Parliament.' This letter confirming the return of Luttrell and Wolseley to Parliament, dates from the period of the The Conciliatory Resolution, a resolution passed by Parliament in an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement with the Thirteen Colonies two months prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. In January 1775, Parliament considered petitions from the colonies in relation to the Coercive Acts, including a petition to the King from the First Continental Congress, and discussed ways to resolve the crisis with the Thirteen Colonies. A proposal by William Pitt to recognize colonial self-government was rejected by the House of Lords. Pitt then moved for the withdrawal of troops from Boston, but that motion was defeated. In February, Pitt presented a plan of conciliation based upon mutual concessions, but this was also rejected. On February 2, despite fierce opposition from some members of Parliament, Massachusetts was declared to be in rebellion. Lord North took the role of conciliator for the drafting of a conciliatory resolution which was proposed on February 20, 1775 and dated on February 27. Temple Luttrell's first speech in Parliament on the 13 Feb. 1775, was a violent attack on North's ministry. He denounced 'the arbitrary principles and system of government applied to almost every department of the state by that flagitious confederacy which hath latterly presided over the councils and arcana of the Cabinet ever since the accession of our present most gracious sovereign. let the all-potent minions beware, lest while they are bowing the stubborn necks of these colonists to the yoke, they find not their own necks bow to the block of an executioner.' Charles Wolseley's first reported vote was with the Opposition on Wilkes, 22 Feb. 1775, but according to the Public Ledger he 'soon abandoned' Luttrell and the Opposition 'to attach himself to the ministry'. Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland & Strathearn, 1745-1790, somewhat wayward younger brother of George III, who had a number of mistresses. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 98524
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