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1765-1766
REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT
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la jeunesse et peut-être l'étourderie de My lord Shelburne, quoique gouverné par M. Pitt, il ne sera pas plus fort qu'il ne l'étoit ci-devant. My lord Chatham a pris une charge trop forte d'être le Gouverneur de tout le monde et le Protecteur de tous."

In these words did the French Minister sketch his hopes and fears to his colleague in London, but graver misfortunes than either a mistake about an office, or the opposition of any individual however powerful, were to be the causes of the ruin of the Ministry of the Earl of Chatham.