OCTOBER 20th, 1756: to Newcastle face to face, 'I will accept no situation under your Grace!'-- and, about that day month, comes IN, on his own footing.

That is to say, "NOVEMBER 19th, 1756, to England's great comfort, Sees himself Secretary of State (age now just forty-eight).

Has pretty much all England at his back; but has, in face of him, Fox, Newcastle and Company, offering mere impediment and discouragement; Royal Highness of Cumberland looking deadly sour.

Till finally, "APRIL 5th, 1757, King bids him resign; Royal Highness setting off for Germany the second day after.

Pitt had been IN rather more than Four months.