The Comprehensive History of England, Vol. 9

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Excerpt from The Comprehensive History of England, Vol. 9: Civil and Military, Religious, Intellectual, and Social, From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Russian War, With Numerous Annotations From the Writings of Recent Distinguished HistoriansThe three days that intervened were employed in anxious but useless efforts to bring about a coalition. Mr. Grosvenor, member for Chester, called a meeting of the members of the two par ties, and about seventy gentlemen met at the St. Alban's Tavern, where an address was agreed upon, and transmitted to the Duke of Portland and Mr. Pitt, entreating them to communicate with each other, and expressing a hope that, by a liberal and unreserved confidence, every im pediment to their cordial co - operation might be removed. The Duke of Portland insisted that, before he met Mr. Pitt, the latter should resign and this Pitt declined doing. The negotiation was suspended at this point when the house re assembled ou the 29th, to be again adjourned on the motion of Fox - till the 2d of February. In the course of a short conversation, Fox spoke openly of the St. Alban's Tavern negotiation, and said he trusted that those well-meant endeavours might yet produce something like a union, adding, however, that while the present ministry retained their situations, every effort of that kind must prove unavailing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.