Pitt now launched an attack on such subsidies, playing to widespread anti-Hanoverian feelings in Britain.

In December 1756, Pitt, who now sat for Okehampton, became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and Leader of the House of Commons under the premiership of the Duke of Devonshire.

For the past few months Britain had been virtually leaderless, although Devonshire had remained formally Prime Minister, but now Pitt and Newcastle were ready to offer stronger direction to the country's strategy.

Pitt now expected France to offer terms, although he was prepared for a longer war if necessary.

The coalition's untimely fall was brought about by George III in league with the House of Lords, and the King now brought in Chatham's son, William Pitt the Younger, as his prime minister.

It was only now that a genuine two-party system can be seen to emerge, with Pitt and the government on the one side, and the ousted Fox-North coalition on the other.

The Pitt Building in Cambridge, which used to be the headquarters of Cambridge University Press, and now serves as a conference centre for the Press.

Fort Pitt ( now Pittsburgh ) at the source of the Ohio River was an early outpost of the overland routes.

In 1788, when Allegheny County was formed, the area now known as Penn Hills was part of Pitt Township.

The lands involved were open to Virginians under terms of the Treaty of Lochaber of 1770, except for the lands located 2 miles south of Fort Pitt, now known as Pittsburgh.

George now felt justified in dismissing Fox and North from government, and nominating William Pitt in their place ; at twenty-four years of age, the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in history was appointed to office, apparently on the authority of the votes of 19 peers.

The following year, Pitt, by now working full-time for the BBC, as its director of music, augmented the ensemble to form the " Wireless Symphony Orchestra " for a new series of concerts broadcast from Covent Garden, conducted by Bruno Walter, Ernest Ansermet and Pierre Monteux.

The original commercial town was laid out between Light Street, Beach Street ( then running close to the seashore ), Malabar Street ( subsequently called Chulia Street ) and Pitt Street ( now called Masjid Kapitan Keling Street ).

From then on Grenville felt a growing resentment towards Pitt, and grew closer to the young Prince of Wales and his advisor Lord Bute who were both now opposed to Pitt.

Perceval was an emblem bearer at his funeral and, although he had little money to spare ( by now he had eleven children ), he contributed £ 1000 towards a fund to pay off Pitt ’ s debts.

Although the capture of the island provided another victory for Pitt, and lowered the morale of the French public by showing that the British could now occupy parts of Metropolitan France – Hawke ’ s criticisms of its strategic usefulness were borne out.

A few weeks later the king offered the most liberal terms to induce Pitt to form or join an administration ; and " a ministry directed by that great statesman ," says Lecky, " would have been beyond all comparison the most advantageous to the country ; it had no serious difficulty to encounter, and Pitt himself was now ready to undertake the task, but the evil genius of Lord Temple again prevailed.

Robinson, who was considered a nonentity, was poorly equipped to the task and struggled to defend the government from the strident attacks it now came under from Fox and Pitt, both angry at being spurned.

The Buff Weka ( Gallirallus australis hectori ) formerly inhabited the eastern districts of the South Island but is now confined to Chatham Island and Pitt Island to which it was introduced in the early 1900s, and where they are widely hunted and eaten, being considered ' introduced '.

In February 1801 the ministry of Pitt was succeeded by that of Addington, and the chief justice now ascended the woolsack.

In what is now perhaps the best-known incident of the war, British officers at Fort Pitt attempted to infect the besieging Native Americans with smallpox using blankets that had been exposed to the virus.

Most recently, the former location of a now closed Ikea in the City of Industry was used to film scenes in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 ), starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

The new Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, was not expected to last long and North, a vocal critic, still entertained hopes of regaining high office.

Pitt was determined to press ahead with that year's plans, but agreed to lessen the scale of colonial expeditions for 1760, as he expected that 1759 would provide a knock-out blow to the French war effort.

As might have been expected, Binning followed Pitt ’ s line in his first Parliament, voting with him for the orders of the day, 3 June 1803, against Addington, 7 Mar., 13 and 16 Apr.

Pitt expected Ireland to follow the British Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 and allow Roman Catholics to vote again and hold public offices.

He was expected to ride for Ilmor in 2007, but Andrew Pitt and an injured, 42-year-old Jeremy McWilliams were chosen instead.

This implicit threat to the viability of the Royal Navy became apparent in mid-September ( a month after the decision had been taken to settle Botany Bay ) and caused the Pitt Administration to begin an urgent search for new sources of supply, including from Norfolk Island, which was then added to the plan to colonise New South Wales.

Finally in November 1755, Pitt was dismissed from office as paymaster, having spoken during a debate at great length against the new system of continental subsidies proposed by the government of which he was still a member.

In 1758 Pitt began to put into practice a new strategy to win the Seven Years War, which would involve tying down large numbers of French troops and resources in Germany, while Britain used its naval supremacy to launch expeditions to capture French forces around the globe.

The new king was inclined to view politics in personal terms and taught to believe that ' Pitt had the blackest of hearts '.

The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Martinsborough as the new county seat of Pitt County, 3 years after its founding.

Both parties began as loose groupings or tendencies, but became quite formal by 1784, with the ascension of Charles James Fox as the leader of a reconstituted " Whig " party ranged against the governing party of the new " Tories " under William Pitt the Younger.

Pitt, although often referred to as a Tory, or " new Tory ", called himself an " independent Whig " and was generally opposed to the development of a strict partisan political system.

Pitt was an outstanding administrator who worked for efficiency and reform, bringing in a new generation of outstanding administrators.

Pitt created the " new Toryism ," which revived the Tory Party and enabled it to stay in power for the next quarter-century.

In A new way to pay the National Debt ( 1786 ), James Gillray caricatured Queen Charlotte and George III awash with treasury funds to cover royal debts, with Pitt handing them another moneybag.

Pitt sought to eliminate the national debt by imposing new taxes.

They subsequently built a new fort on the site, including a moat, and named it Fort Pitt.

British Prime Minister William Pitt spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards forming a new coalition against France, and by April 1805, Britain and Russia had signed an alliance.

In 1993, the Board of Supervisors entered into a building project to renovate the existing Township Building and garages into administrative offices, tax offices and Police Department, plus razing a portion of the Fort Pitt Fixture Building to make room for a new meeting center and parking lot.

While Fox drew up lists for his proposed Cabinet under the new Prince Regent, Pitt spun out the legalistic debates over the constitutionality of and precedents for instituting a regency, as well as the actual process of drawing up a Regency Bill and navigating it through Parliament.

Negotiations continued, but in 1801 Pitt resigned from office, and in 1803 the new Addington administration decided not to proceed with the project.

In October 1761 he chose to stay in government and accepted the new role of Leader of the Commons causing a rift with his brother-in-law and political ally William Pitt who had resigned.

British Prime Minister William Pitt spent 1804 and 1805 in a flurry of diplomatic activity geared towards forming a new coalition against France.

Pitt wrote to Prime Minister Henry Pelham in May 1750 reporting that he had been invited to stand in Dorchester, and asking for " a new mark of his Majesty's favour enable me to do him these further services ".

There, he met other Swiss, among them Jean-Paul Marat and Étienne Dumont, but their plans for a new Geneva in Ireland — which the government of William Pitt the Younger favoured — were given up when Jacques Necker came to power in France, and Clavière, with most of his comrades, went to Paris.

" 20th Century Boy " introduced a new generation of devotees to Bolan's work in 1991 when it was featured on a Levi's jeans TV commercial featuring Brad Pitt, and was re-released, reaching the UK Top 20.

On 30 April Lord Eldon, the Lord Chancellor, asked Pitt to submit a new administration to the King.