A PIEBALD CABINET.
Perhaps the most curious Coalition Government on record —of the kind that did not coalesce—was that formed by the Earl of Chatham - in 177 G. Mr Burke’s description of the Patchwork Cabinet remains a jo.v to all lovers of clotted metaphor. It was a checkered and speckled administration; a/piece of joinery crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet variously inlaid; a piece of diversified mosaic; a iosselatcd pavement without cement; patriots and courtiers, King’s friends and republicans, Whigs and Tories, treacherous friends and open enemies. “It was indeed a curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure' to stand on. ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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104A PIEBALD CABINET. Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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