Memoirs of the life and conduct of William Pulteney, Esq Representative in Parliament for the Borough of Heydon in Yorkshire. Containing, An Account of the several Employments of Honour and Profit which he has enjoy'd; his remarkable Speeches in Parliament; his Conduct, in particular when he was one of the Secret Committee; his Measures relating to Treaties and Conventions; his Method for a general Pacification; his Attachment to one Potentate, and Antipathy to another; with his Reasons to justify his Behaviour in those Points; his exposing and opposing the Schemes of the Ministry; his Acknowledgment of a Reconciliation between them upon certain Conditions; of the War he carried on against a certain Great Man; and lastly, of the Duel which he fought in Hyde-Park, with the Right Honourable the Lord Harvey. To which, as an ornament, is annex'd, a particular and concise account of his political writings.

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M,DCC,XXXI. [1731]