Excerpt from The Political Life of William Wildman, Viscount Barrington The first session Of the new parliament, in 1741, put an end to Sir Robert Walpole's 'po7 litical power. Sanguine and youthful patriots then expected a new, order of things, and, that all the, nefarious, supporters Of' a corrupt mi nister would be removed, and be succeeded bythose able, and disinterested men, 'who, had so long persevered in opposition to his mea sures. Nothing, therefore, could equal the general astonishment, when it' appeared that Mr. Pulteney had made a private and separate treaty, by which some Of his friends were to have places, while the real power was to re main in the Old administration. The Augiean Stable, asthey termed it, 'was to remain; unpu rified; and nothing was to. Be, attempted' for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.