ABSTRACT
Lord Chatham takes the lead of opposition - Appointment of lord North - Falkland's islands - Imprisonment of the lord mayor - Incroachments upon the East India company - Riot at Boston - Penal acts of parliament. From his resignation in 1761, he seemed, in some manner, to fill the eye of the public. Disappointed in the inauspicious event of the administration, which he had formed with so assiduous care; and mortified, at the impolitic proceedings, of which he had been, however undesignedly, in some measure, the occasion, he had, for some time, hid his head in the obscurity of retreat. In some things, his lordship resembled Mr George Grenville, one of his predecessors. Lord Chatham had ever considered this man, as a useful drudge; and acknowledged, that he had been frequently indebted to his researches.
