Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chronicle of the Fermors, Vol. 2 of 2: Horace Walpole in Love
For thirty years the Duke of Newcastle held a leading position in the government of England, and for ten years actually occupied the first seat on the Treasury Bench. He was the centre and pivot of a great political party. He held levees like royalty at his town mansion. Macaulay tells us that, Mean and selfish politicians pining for commis sionerships, gold sticks, and ribands ?ocked to the great house at the corner of Lincoln S Inn Fields it must have been like the smaller fry Who resort to Dublin Castle in our day.
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