ABSTRACT
The best proof of Administration’s fear of the consequences of going on without change, as the King desired, is to be found in the new Cabinet troubles facing George III as Parliament’s inevitable reassembly drew nearer. Despite the hearing given on December 30th in the York Assembly Rooms to several pro-Administration objectors, one of them of very high Royalist views, the meeting seems to have gone very much as Wyvill had designed it. That Administration was facing new risks of being largely deserted by “independent” men whenever “Public Oeconomy” was in question, first became obvious in Parliament on February 8th. On February 23rd Mr. Edmund Burke’s principal “Public Oeconomy” Bill was read a first time and North, in answer to Burke’s inquiry, affirmed that he did not yet know whether he would oppose it at a later stage.
