Henry Addington

He was the son of a doctor, a politician of the British Toll Party. In 1801, William Pitt was appointed prime minister (and minister of finance). The following year he signed a peace treaty with Napoleon France, and was therefore attacked. In 1804, his prime minister's position was replaced by Little Pitt. In the following year he re-entered the cabinet, served as head of the Cardenal House. In 1812¨C1821 he served as minister of interior, interrupted the implementation of the Law on Personal Protection (1817), suppressed the mass movement, and produced the Peter's Blood Case (1819).

Edington's father was Dr. Anthony Edington. He had seen William Pitt, Count of Chatham, ill for him in his late years, and was famous for his conviction that wine was a special medicine to cure severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe severe sev

Addington became MP for Devicious in 1784, when his friend William Pitt, Jr. was already prime minister. It seems that Addington is just the trustworthy comrade this new prime minister needs. He may not have been a brilliant orator; Indeed, when Little Pete pushed him to the front desk to assist in the parliamentary reply, he made a mess of the work. But, he was a diligent member of some committees, and was always busy striving for new friends in Parliament; He is also a scholar of parliamentary procedure, and it is generally accepted that his opinions are reasonable, if not profound enough. In short, he is the right person to be the speaker of the lower house. He actually became Speaker in 1789, and Pitt Jr. chose him for the post because it seemed that he would not use the position as a stepping stone to promotion.

This choice is popular, and the Speaker is excellent. His shortcomings are arrogance, tedious speech and complete lack of humor. When he talked about the shortage of corn, he spoke to the members of the House of Commons about the benefits of chaff, and impassioned talks about "the reduction of calories, the dissolving power of water and the milling effect of the stomach." No doubt he was surprised by the irrepressible laughter caused by these remarks. In such circumstances, Members are likely to be reminded of Addington's origins-"son of Lord Chatham's personal physician, and indeed a Chatham retinue." He, however, served as Speaker for twelve years; During this period, during this period, he often talked privately with the Prime Minister, ate with him, and tasted its wine.

In 1801, the younger Pitt made up his mind that if the king did not agree to a parliamentary union with Ireland in part at the cost of liberating Catholics, he would have to find a new prime minister. The king asked Addington to make little Pete see "the danger of raising this question." Little Pete refused to back down, so the king asked the speaker to organize a government.

But when George III had just gone to the countryside to visit Edington and inspect a cavalry force led by the chairman, it was determined that he was the candidate who could lead the country, and Petite was of the same opinion: no one else was acceptable. He promised to ¡°unremittingly¡± support the administration of Edington. The king said, ¡°Addington, you saved my country!¡± he gave a house in Richmond Park to the new prime minister and selected seven cattle from his ranch to give him.

Addington's first task was to make peace with France. He did it quite well, although his signing of the agreement to cede Malta was fiercely criticized. (However, it turns out that Britain did not withdraw from Malta, giving Napoleon an excuse to protest.)

However, Eddington had to struggle with some of his weaknesses. He was not good at speaking, so lawmakers soon began to miss Little Pitt¡¯s talents just a year ago. It can¡¯t be denied that he was a middle class in the parliament in an epidemic and the nobility in the dominance. Finally, he couldn¡¯t expect Little Pitt¡¯s followers not to attack him anymore. George Cunning, the most outstanding character among Little Pitt¡¯s young disciples, first continuously criticized and mocked the Doctor¡¯s son, calling him the ¡°Doctor under the Hood,¡± saying he lived in the ¡°Medich¡¯s Villa.¡±

Edington tried to persuade Little Pitt to return to government, but was unsuccessful. Little Pitt only wanted to return as prime minister. Addington sent Melville, a friend of Little Pitt, to investigate Little Pitt's ideas. He brought back the news that: "There must be a recognized, in the cabinet dominant and the king deeply trusted real minister, because only in this way will there be no collision or separation of power. The rights must be in the hands of those who are called prime ministers. "Therefore, in 1803, the person with the most voice on this issue explained the necessity of establishing a prime minister's office, so the rights and duties of the prime minister were determined.

While peace could still beined, it was a good thing. At the same time, when Addison had put down Pitt¡¯s boldly arbitrary income tax in his budget, the public was quite satisfied with the measure. But the unreliable peace was destroyed when Napoleon went to Switzerland. It soon became clear that, as with Arthur Neville Chamberlain in 1940, Addison was unable to provide the people with the encouragement and leadership they needed. The public¡¯s speeches on the day of the declaration of war were weaker and weaker than usual, and unfortunately for him, Pitt¡¯s speeches were so excellent that Charles James Fox said: ¡°If Demosthenes was there, he would also be pleased.¡±

Due to the joint offensive by Pete Jr. and Fox, the government could not last long. The government collapsed on May 10, 1804, and Peter Jr. returned to power. Addington became Viscount Sidmus and had 30 years of political life left. He didn't have long time to vent his dissatisfaction with Little Pete-he believed that Little Pete had left him an excessively heavy burden. Because Little Pete passed away in January 1806. Addington served for a short time as Lord of the Seals in William Windham Glenville's Good Cabinet, as Privy Council under Spencer Percival, and finally as Home Secretary in the Lord's Government for 10 years. By the time George IV ascended the throne in 1820, he had served in six governments for nearly thirty years. Canning said: "He is like smallpox, which everyone encounters once in their lives.¡»

During his time at the Ministry of the Interior, there was a shocking incident that became the Catuge Conspiracy, in which the cabal attempted to murder all cabinet members with a meal machine. The conspirators were not skilled enough, but their actions naturally caused great alarm. At the Home Office, Addington gained a new and unpleasant reputation. It was a day of riots and unemployment, the horrors of the French Revolution were still fresh in people's minds, and all law-abiding people were uneasy. Amid the raging public resentment, the ministers were very nervous. On the other hand, it is natural to assume that the measures to deal with the mob of the Ludith movement, the Petru tragedy, the decision to suspend habeas corpus, press censorship and the measures known as the Six Acts all came from the Ministry of the Interior, which is responsible for domestic order. As a result, Adington, along with his contemporaneous Viscount Castlereagh, was included on the list of enemies of the radicals: two vultures looking for prey, and two poisonous scorpions hiding in a white stone. He must not think the portrait was fair enough. He did not mean to cause pain to anyone. He probably did not think that he was a reactionary.

He died at the age of 85 as a loyal, good old gentleman. He occasionally wrote innocent poems, often talking about celebrities he knew. He married twice; his first wife, Eureka Marie Hadmond, who married him in 1791, gave him six children; his second wife, Mary Ann Donson, who married him at the age of 60, brought him a remarkable fortune. Now, if anyone still remembers him. That's because there was such a laughing at his poem: Little Pittby's Edington, like London's Beatty Paddington (Paddington is a small district in the west of London with only 14,000 people), was a cruel joke of fate, and he made a most ordinary prime minister such a distinctive contrast to a great prime minister.