Time and circumstance at length produced the younger Pitt.

But it needed the tragedy of two long wars--those against the colonies and revolutionary France--before the nation finally threw off the system which permitted the personal rule of George III and caused the disruption of the Empire.

It may thus be said with some truth that George Washington was instrumental in the salvation of England.
The ministers of George III loved the sports, the rivalries, the ease, the remoteness of their rural magnificence.

Perverse fashion kept them in London even in April and May for "the season," just when in the country nature was most alluring.

Otherwise they were off to their estates whenever they could get away from town.