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Excerpt from Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time Never, I believe, did any literary work procure for its author a more numerous list of powerful and inveterate enemies, than were produced by those Memoirs of my own Time. The queen, the regent, and the princesses of the royal family, far from being satis fied with a portrait of George the Third, which, if it errs, can only be censured for presenting a too favourable likeness, were incensed at the freedom with which I had commented on the peace of 1763, aswell as at the personal disclosures respecting the king himself, scattered throughout the memoirs. As little did the admirers or fol lowers of Pitt approve my picture of that minister, though, in my opinion, rather a flattering resemblance: while Fox's partisans exhi bited the most violent resentment at my strictures on his moral, as well as on his political character. The just and impartial likeness of Charles Jenkinson displeased the first lord of the treasury, his son. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.