(1) Comment on Napoleon's version of the reason for the French occupation of Egypt.

(2) Comment on this extract from a speech of George III referring to the same.

(3) Was this "opening" improved "by suitable exertions on the part of the other powers"?

(4) Can you explain the dates?

149. At last, after an interval of above eleven weeks, the Ministry was settled, and kissed hands on the 29th. The Duke of Newcastle returned to the Treasury, with Legge for his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Pitt and Lord Holderness were Secretaries of State. Lord Temple had the Privy Seal in the room of Lord Gower, who was made Master of the Horse, the Duke of Dorset being set aside, but with a pension of £3000 a year, added to his Wardenship of the Cinque Ports. On Lord George Sackville the King put a flat negative. Fox accepted the Pay-Office, professing great content, and that he should offend neither in thought, word nor deed. Both Newcastle and Pitt acted wisely in permitting him to enjoy this place: he was tied up from giving them any trouble and while serving for interest under Pitt, how much did it exalt the latter!

(1) What ministry is being formed? Account for the delay of eleven weeks.

(2)

(3)

What can you gather from this extract as to the

power of the Crown?

What do you know of the work of this combination

of ministers?

150. On the head of Frederic is all the blood which was shed in a war which raged during many years and in every quarter of the globe, the blood of the column of Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown; and, in order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.

Comment on this statement and explain any necessary allusions.

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