A list of the different changes of administration from the Accession of George the Third to the commencement of Lord North's ministry, is inserted to shew, that Lord George Sackville was admitted into the Rockingham administration in 1765, as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. Lord Chatham's ministry commenced in 1766. In the new arrangement, the name of Lord George Sackville was not included. A few months after this event, Junius commenced his Miscellaneous Letters, with a powerful attack on the Earl of Chatham. It is proper to observe, that it was during that nobleman's ministry in 1760, that Lord George was disgraced at Court. Lord George had fondly hoped, when he was recalled to a share in the government in 1765, that his disgrace was buried in oblivion: but this second instance of removal would naturally recall past events, and sour him against the Earl of Chatham and other members of the new administration who had objected to his taking a share in the government on the ground of the result of the Court-Martial. Lord Shelburne, for one, publicly stated in the House of Lords, that he had expressed as much on the occasion, for which reason assigned, he had received various indignities from Lord George. From this avowal of Lord Shelburne, we may conclude, that the Earl of Chatham, the Duke of Grafton, and others who formed the new ministry, united in the same opinion, as we find, that every member of the new administration mentioned by Junius, came under that writer's censure, with the exception of Thomas Townshend, afterwards Lord Sydney. Mr. Cumberland says, that Lord Sydney was one of Lord Sackville's most intimate friends, and corresponded with him to his dying hour. The summary of his Lordship's strangely diversified life, to which the reader's attention is now directed, will be read with increased interest, connected as it is, with the foregoing Enquiry. [To face page 256. A LIST OF THE GENERAL CHANGES OF THE MINISTRY, FROM THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE III. TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF LORD NORTH'S MINISTRY, IN THE YEAR 1770, Duke of Newcastle and (As they stood at the Ac- ord Chancellor. ords of the Treasury.. oint Secretaries, Id... ostmasters....... ice Treasurers........ Lord Northington Mr. Pitt Lord Besborough Lord Bute's Ministry. Lord Northington Lord Ligonier MEMORANDA TO THE LIST OF THE DIFFERENT CHANGES OF THE MINISTRY. * Lord George Sackville, Master General of the Ordnance, Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Ranger of the Phoenix Park, Dublin, &c. &c. dismissed from his Majesty's service August 10, 1759. † July, 1765, Lord George Sackville was sworn a Member of the Privy Council, and appointed one of the Vice Treasurers of Ireland; removed 1766, the new Ministry objecting to his taking a part in the Administration on the ground of the censure of the Court Martial being still in force against him. Held no place under Government until the year 1775, when he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of Trade and Plantations. During this interval the Letters of Junius were written. 257 CHAPTER III. MEMOIRS OF LORD VISCOUNT SACKVILLE. If high birth, elevated situation, eminent talents, or great riches; if qualities which adorn life and command esteem, with various and striking vicissitudes of fortune, be sufficient to claim distinction and excite enquiry; no person is more entitled to be commemorated than Lord Viscount Sackville. He was the third son of Lionel, first Duke of Dorset, by Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant-General Colyear. His lordship was born June 26, 1716, in the Haymarket, where his father at that time resided. He received his name from King George the First, who was his godfather, and who honoured the ceremony of his baptism by his personal presence. The early part of his education he received at Westminster school, where he distinguished himself with other young noblemen and gentlemen, by reciting verses both in Latin and English on the Coronation of King George the Second and Queen Caroline, on the 18th February 1728, the inauguration day of Queen Elizabeth. At this period he was only eleven S |