The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 8 May 1804
“8th May.
“. . . I was too late for last night’s post,
and besides I was struck dumb and lifeless by the elevation of that wretch
Pitt to his former fatal
eminence—sick to death, too, with something like a sensation of Fox’s disgrace and defeat, and of the
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termination of all our hopes. But I am better to-day; the
Grenvilles and Wyndhamites have to a man stuck fast to
Fox and refuse to treat with
Pitt. The Prince, too,
loads Fox with caresses, and swears his father’s
exception to Fox alone is meant as the last and greatest
of personal injuries to himself, because the King knows full well that Fox is the first
favorite of the Prince.”
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
Whig statesman and the leader of the Whig opposition in Parliament after his falling-out
with Edmund Burke.
Charles Grey, second earl Grey (1764-1845)
Whig statesman and lover of the Duchess of Devonshire; the second son of the first earl
(d. 1807), he was prime minister (1831-34).
George Howard, sixth earl of Carlisle (1773-1848)
Son of the fifth earl (d. 1825); he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, wrote
for the
Anti-Jacobin, and was MP for Morpeth (1795-1806) and
Cumberland (1806-28).
William Pitt the younger (1759-1806)
The second son of William Pitt, earl of Chatham (1708-1778); he was Tory prime minister
1783-1801.
