Search Results: Military or Naval Political from Sophie Dupre

ordering the repayment of £51 19s 11d with interest to Aldermen Gardiner and Osborne of Norwich, for quartering "severall of Captaine George Littletons Soldiers in the Regiment of his Highness the Duke of Yorke... for Severall days... deducted out of their pay", to be taken from the £296462 17s 3d voted "for Paying off, and Disbanding the Forces Raised since the 29th September 1677", with an attractive 18th century engraving, 11½" x 7¾", of Godolphin's funeral monument erected by his daughter-in-law Henrietta Churchill, from 1722 Duchess of Marlborough in her own right, the document printed with manuscript additions, 1 side folio, Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, 7th July narrow piece torn from right hand margin to cancel the document (not touching the signatures), with loss of about 8 letters (easily supplied), tiny tear in horizontal fold of engraving Laurence Hyde was at this time Charles II's chief adviser. He later edited for the… Read More

pencilled note of artist 'G. Eynsford R.A.' [sic, we have not traced him], blind stamp of the Reform Club, no date, c.

showing him seated, half length, with a penetrating look, 11½" x 8½", London,

saying that he does "not think its 'hanging up' for a month or two, till it can be considered on its merits and apart from the heat and false issues which are inevitably introduced when it is made the fighting ground of party, will do any harm. Let me congratulate you on the very successful reception accorded to Mr Chamberlain in Natal, which has made the most favourable impression upon him, and will, I think, exercise a good effect on our political condition generally...", 1 side A4, no place, no date, circa From 26th December 1902 to 25th February 1903, Neville Chamberlain was on a South African tour, seeking to promote Anglo-Afrikaner conciliation and integration into the British Empire. In Natal, Chamberlain was given a rapturous welcome. In the former Transvaal, he met Boer leaders who were attempting unsuccessfully to alter the peace terms. The reception given to Chamberlain in the former Orange Free State, (at the time renamed the Orange River Colony) was surprisingly… Read More

agreeing with her that "the solution of the recruiting problem adopted by the Government in their half measure, which is no solution but will only lead to further delay, is much to be regretted. We have now got so far on the road to general compulsion that it remains incomprehensible to me, why we cannot go the whole way and have the thing put once for all on a fair and intelligible basis. However,I have said this over and over again and so far have not succeeded. We have got several steps nearer general compulsion and probably we shall ultimately get the whole of it by bits. That it should have taken so long, and be done in a manner so half-hearted and so thoroughly unsatisfactory, is of course deplorable...", 1 side 4to., 17 Great College Street, 26th April In January 1916 the Military Service Act was passed. This imposed conscription on all single men aged between 18 and 41, but exempted the medically unfit, clergymen, teachers and certain classes of industrial worker. Married men… Read More

apologising for the dictated reply as he is "overwhelmed with correspondence. I am so sorry we do not see eye to eye in this matter Of course it is a military question and those who, like myself, don't know absolutely all the military facts, cannot form a perfect judgement. My own view is that, under the altered circumstances, the men are wasted there besides being in great danger; that they might be a great deal more use somewhere else, and that if it is militarily desirable to move them, it is quite wrong not to do so merely because the Turks would crow, or the Australians be disgusted, or we all feel, - as we naturally should - humiliated. All that will happen equally, only more so, if the expedition is allowed to come to complete grief. On the other hand, all this will be got over if the men, who are in themselves splendid, are given a chance somewhere where the conditions are not so horribly against them... One of the most competent judges I have seen, fresh from the spot, thinks we… Read More

in imitation of 'Cock Robin', beginning "Who caused the Boers' Rebellion 'I' said the people's Willy, With my speeches so silly I caused that Rebellion", beginning thus with the Kaiser, and continuing with the Queen's Speech, Childers, Roberts, Kimberley, "Who advised surrender ?" ('lowly' John Bright), "Who signed the treaty ?" (Evelyn Wood), Cairns, "Who called it honourable ?" (Selborne), "Who cried shame on it ?" (Whig and Tory), "Who approved it strongly ?" (the Radicals), and ending "Who'll pay the piper ?" (John Bull, 'For whoever plays the fool I always pay the piper'), 48 lines on 3 sides 8vo, no place, no date, circa