On 30 June 1783 Fitzwilliam gave his maiden speech, giving the government's objections to the Shelburnite MP William Pitt's Bill to reform abuses in public offices.

In his first political speech, he vehemently attacked the absent war minister William Pitt, renewing this assault the next day to Pitt's face.

One observer thought that Canning made incomparably the best speech and that his defence of Pitt's administration " one of the best things, either argumentatively as to matter, or critically and to manner and style " that he could ever remember.

On his return to Britain, the Duke took his seat in the House of Lords, where, on 15 December 1788 during the Regency crisis, he opposed William Pitt's Regency Bill in a speech which was supposed to have been influenced by the Prince of Wales.

Resisting Pitt's attempt to draw him into alliance against the ministry he had quit, Yorke maintained, in a speech that extorted the highest eulogy from Horace Walpole, that parliamentary privilege did not extend to cases of libel ; though he agreed with Pitt in condemning the principle of general warrants.

Thomas ( 2003 ) argues that Pitt's power was based not on his family connections but his extraordinary parliamentary skills by which he dominated the House of Commons.

The House of Commons rejected Pitt's resolution by over 140 votes, despite receiving petitions for reform bearing over twenty thousand signatures.

Pitt's support for the bill, however, was not strong enough to prevent its defeat in the House of Commons.

As the only other member of Pitt's Government in the House of Commons, Castlereagh became Pitt's political deputy, taking on ever more burdens as Pitt's health continued to decline.

Pitt's parliamentary assault against Addington in March 1804 led to the slimming of his parliamentary majority to the point where defeat in the House of Commons was imminent.

However, Addington refused the honour and chose to remain in the Commons until 1805, when he joined Pitt's government as Lord President of the Council with the lesser title of Viscount Sidmouth.

Mr. Pitt's case in ' 84 is the nearest analogy ; but then the people only confirmed the Sovereign's choice ; here every Conservative candidate professed himself in plain words to be Sir Robert Peel's man, and on that ground was elected.

This was again Pitt's version of the play.

The character's new, tragic backstory was Bond's way of grafting dramatic themes from The Revenger's Tragedy onto Pitt's stage plot.

On Pitt's return home in 1730 it was necessary for him, as the younger son, to choose a profession.

It was reported that the £ 1, 000 cost of the commission had been supplied by the Prime Minister out of Treasury funds in an attempt to secure the support of Pitt's brother Thomas in Parliament.

Pitt's military career was destined to be relatively short.

The loss of Pitt's commission was soon compensated to him.

In response to Pitt's attacks, the British government decided not pay a direct subsidy to Hanover, but instead to pass the money indirectly through Austria-a move which was considered more politically acceptable.

The administration formed by the Pelhams in 1744, after the dismissal of Carteret, included many of Pitt's former Patriot allies, but Pitt was not granted a position because of continued ill-feeling by the King and leading Whigs about his views on Hanover.

Pitt's relationship with the Duke slumped further in early 1756 when he alleged that Newcastle was deliberately leaving the island of Minorca ill-defended so that the French would seize it, and Newcastle could use its loss to prove that Britain was not able to fight a war against France and sue for peace.

However, Pitt's pleasure over this was tempered by the subsequent news of a significant British defeat at Battle of Carillon.

The scheme of amphibious raids was the only one of Pitt's policies during the war that was broadly a failure, although it did help briefly relieve pressure on the German front by trying down French troops on coastal protection service.

Pitt's war around the world was largely successful.

Pitt's power had now reached its peak, but was soon under threat.

He was succeeded by his grandson, George III, who had once considered Pitt an ally but had become angered by Pitt's alliance with Newcastle and acceptance of the need for British intervention in Germany – which George was strongly opposed to.

Pitt's plan for an expedition to capture Belle Île was put into force in April 1761 and it was captured after a siege.

But Pitt's relation to all three was such as to entitle him to a large share in the credit of their deeds.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

Pitt's brother-in-law George Grenville was given a major role in government, angering Pitt who felt Grenville should have resigned with him.

He left office with his colleagues in April 1783, but in the following December he returned to his former position at the Treasury in Pitt's ministry, being henceforward one of this minister ’ s most steadfast supporters.

In April 1754 he joined the ministry of the duke of Newcastle as chancellor of the Exchequer, the king consenting to this appointment although refusing to hold any intercourse with the minister ; but Legge shared the elder Pitt's dislike of the policy of paying subsidies to the landgrave of Hesse, and was dismissed from office in November 1755.

Burke, with fear of the radical upheaval in France foremost in his mind, took Pitt's side in the debate, dismissing Nonconformists as " men of factious and dangerous principles ", to which Fox replied that Burke's " strange dereliction from his former principles ... filled him with grief and shame ".

In The Caneing in Conduit Street ( 1796 ), James Gillray caricatured Pitt's streetcorner assault on Vancouver.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

Many of Pitt's attacks on the government were directed personally at Sir Robert Walpole who had now been Prime Minister for twenty years.

Straczynski announced on February 23, 2007 that he had been hired to write the feature film adaptation of Max Brooks's New York Times-bestselling novel World War Z for Paramount Pictures and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B.

The new house was on a larger scale than Pitt's, in white brick and Portland stone.

His friendship with his mentor Burke and his parliamentary credibility were both casualties of Fox's support for France during the Revolutionary Wars, but he went on to attack Pitt's wartime legislation and to defend the liberty of religious minorities and political radicals.

After Pitt's death in January 1806, Fox served briefly as Foreign Secretary in the ' Ministry of All the Talents ' of William Grenville, before he died on 13 September 1806, aged fifty-seven.

Fox opposed the bellicose stances of Pitt's ministry in the Nootka Sound crisis, and over the Russian occupation of the Turkish port of Ochakiv on the Black Sea.

Fox, however, still insisted on challenging the repressive wartime legislation introduced by Pitt in the 1790s that would become known ( rather exaggeratedly ) as " Pitt's Terror ".

Grattan supported the government for a time after 1782, and spoke and voted for the repressive legislation that followed the Whiteboy violence in 1785 ; but as the years passed without Pitt's personal favour towards parliamentary reform resulting in legislation, he gravitated towards the opposition, agitated for commutation of tithes in Ireland, and supported the Whigs on the regency question in 1788.

But see also Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the Reign of George II ( London, 1845 ); Lord Stanhope's History of England ( London, 1858 ); Lecky's History of England ( 1885 ); and ED Adams, The Influence of Grenville on Pitt's Foreign Policy ( Washington, 1904 ).

* Foster is honored on the University of Pittsburgh campus with the Stephen Foster Memorial, a landmark building that houses the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, the Center for American Music, as well as two theaters: the Charity Randall Theatre and Henry Heymann Theatre, both performance spaces for Pitt's Department of Theater Arts.