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1764–1845 England
Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, KG, PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 22 November 1830 to 16 July 1834. A member of the Whig Party, he backed significant reform of the British government and was among the primary architects of the Reform Act 1832.
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I am a great lover of morality, public and private, but the intercourse of nations cannot be strictly regulated by that rule.
To assist the Spaniards is morally and politically one of the highest duties a nation ever had to perform.
I have written with a very confused head from the affects of laudanum.
It is impossible not to admire his ability, resource, and fortitude, in presenting himself everywhere to repel the dangers which assail him.
Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.
Bad as I am thought, I cannot express the horror I feel at this atrocity.
I am indeed convinced that the more the bill is considered, the less it will be found to prejudice the real interests of the aristocracy.
[Accounts from Russia lead me to conclude,] as you probably have done, that no reasonable hope of success is to be entertained in that quarter.
I respect the establishments of the Revolution, at least as much as those who are remarked for their deference to them to serve on occasion. I am sensible how much was done for liberty at the Revolution.
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