Note 135 — Chapter VI
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Yet, in the course of the work, the author laments Lord Hardwick’s influence in Cabinets, where he would have us believe he was despised, and acknowledges that he exercised a dominion nearly absolute over that House of Parliament, which, he would persuade his readers, laughed at him. The truth is, that wherever that great magistrate is mentioned, Lord Orford’s resentments blind his judgment, and disfigure his narrative.—E.