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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 395 — 342.

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David, seventh Viscount Stormont, who succeeded (1793) his uncle as second Earl of Mansfield, was at this time ambassador at Paris. In October, 1779, he was made one of the Secretaries of State. He was afterwards President of the Council under Pitt. He died in 1796.

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