Excerpt from The Monarchy in Politics
Complaints of the evils of party government and of the need for discovering some more excellent way are among the commonplaces of experience. George III. came to the throne thoroughly impressed with this idea. The country should be governed by his personal friends, not by Whigs nor Tories; ministers should be selected from either side, so that Government might be based on what was called "a broad bottom."
This is well shown in a letter from Sir John Phillips, M. P. for Pembrokeshire, to the minister George Grenville, dated September 8, 1763, in which he alludes to his having cautioned the King against the danger of getting into the hands of the Pitt faction, as their scheme was "directly opposite to His Majesty's, which was to abolish all party distinctions, and to be King over all his people; whereas theirs was to take the throne by storm, to foment divisions, to proscribe all His Majesty's subjects from his service but themselves and their creatures, and to rule with an absolute sway; and I went on so far as to say that if His Majesty suffered that faction to prevail he would be a King in shackles." (Grenville Papers, ii. 116.) This system, which as Grenville said in a letter to Lord Bute, dated March 25, 1763, "the King thought of forming for his future government," was bound to be "attended with great difficulties" (ib. ii. 35), as the sequel did not fail to show.
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