Copy letter from William Pitt to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

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Concerns his comments on Lord Bute's resignation: "Lord Bute's undertaking seeming to me the Matter of Astonishment, not His Lordship's departing from it...The Period of this Country's Decadency seems begun; The System held forth with Regard to Finances, since the Fatal Peace, being almost as ruinous as The Peace itself". Original written from Hayes and signed "W Pitt".

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