Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — Statesmen in Their Cups. [ARTICLE]

Statesmen in Their Cups.

The deep drinking which was a social custom in the time of the younger Pitt had its influence occasionally on the minister, whose habit it was to indulge liberally with his friends, when free from the occupations of state. An epigram of the jlme gave the following dialogue between Pitt and his colleague and boon .companion, Henry Dundas, afterwards Viscount Melville: Pitt—l cannot see the speaker, Hal; can you? Dundas—Not see the speaker, Billy? 1 1 see two!—From an Anecdotal History of Parliament.