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WILLIAM PITT
AND
NATIONAL REVIVAL

BY THE SAME AUTHOR


Fifth Edition. With many Maps and Plans and numerous
Illustrations from contemporary paintings, rare prints
and engravings, medals, etc.

In Two Volumes, Large Post 8vo. 18s. net.

Also a Cheaper Edition, without the Illustrations, 2 vols. 10s. net.

THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON I

INCLUDING NEW MATERIALS FROM THE BRITISH
OFFICIAL RECORDS


Second Edition, revised. Post 8vo. 5s. net.

NAPOLEONIC STUDIES


LONDON: G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.

Emery Walker Ph. sc.

William Pitt
as Chancellor of the Exchequer
from a painting by T. Gainsborough

WILLIAM PITT
AND
NATIONAL REVIVAL

BY
J. HOLLAND ROSE, Litt.D.

A rarer spirit never

Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will give us

Some faults to make us men.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

LONDON
G. BELL AND SONS, LTD.
1911

CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.