When was it published?

December 4, 1790 in Gazette Of The United States

Foreign News December 4, 1790

Gazette Of The United States

Q: What entities or persons were involved?

Mr. Pitt, Stadtholderian Party, Portland Interest

Q: What keywords are associated?

France Cabinet Retirement, National Assembly Committees, Foreign Relations Indifference, Britain Holland Dispute, Mr Pitt Foreign Policy

New York, New York County, New York

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What is this article about?

Impending retirement of all French Cabinet Ministers due to difficulty finding successors; National Assembly plans to replace with committees, seen as ruinous. France's diminished international respect shown by indifference in recent armistices and treaties; Britain uninvolved as mediator, relied upon in Dutch dispute by Stadtholderian party via Portland interest; critique of Mr. Pitt's foreign policy capabilities.

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Sept. 28. What we some time ago announced is now on the eve of fulfilling - the retirement of all the Cabinet Ministers of France. The event was only delayed by the utter impossibility of procuring successors. At length we find the aspiring faction in the National Assembly will be able to carry their point of substituting committees to transact the business of each department - a wretched subterfuge of their own virtuous resolution, and which must be pregnant with ruin. The situation of this country, in point of respect with foreign nations, cannot be better exemplified than by the indifference shewn by those states who have lately concluded Armistices and treaties of peace. Great Britain has neither been mediator nor arbiter. In the very dispute in Holland, the Stadtholderian party applied to and relied on the Portland interest. Mr. Pitt may attempt a general excise by management of a House of Commons, but he is not equal to the conduct of war and foreign alliances.

What sub-type of article is it?

Political Diplomatic

What keywords are associated?

France Cabinet Retirement National Assembly Committees Foreign Relations Indifference Britain Holland Dispute Mr Pitt Foreign Policy

What entities or persons were involved?

Mr. Pitt Stadtholderian Party Portland Interest

Where did it happen?

France

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

France

Event Date

Sept. 28

Key Persons

Mr. Pitt Stadtholderian Party Portland Interest

Outcome

retirement of all cabinet ministers; substitution of committees for departments; diminished respect with foreign nations; britain not mediator in armistices and treaties; reliance on portland interest in dutch dispute

Event Details

Retirement of all Cabinet Ministers of France imminent, delayed by inability to find successors; National Assembly's aspiring faction to substitute committees for departmental business, viewed as ruinous subterfuge; exemplified by indifference of states in recent armistices and treaties where Great Britain was neither mediator nor arbiter; in Holland dispute, Stadtholderian party relied on Portland interest; Mr. Pitt criticized for inadequacy in war and foreign alliances.