An ardent opponent of Catholic Emancipation, he delivered in 1807 a speech on the subject which helped to give the deathblow to the Grenville administration, upon which he became chancellor of the exchequer under the duke of Portland, whom in 1809 he succeeded in the premiership. Notwithstanding that he had the assistance in the cabinet of no statesman of the first rank, he succeeded in retaining office till he was shot by a man named Bellingham, a bankrupt with a grievance, who had vainly applied to him for redress, in the lobby of the House of Commons on the 11th of May 1812.   anvd [Please select]

Monarchy, aristocracy, and Federalism, it was said, had received a deathblow.   anvd [Please select]

My prayer is that this may be a deathblow to Slavery.   anvd [Please select]

With the ardour of battle still glowing in him, Jonathan rushed forward with the axe, and finally managed to deal the moose a deathblow; with a knife they then bled it, and stood by, triumphant.   anvd [Please select]

Scholars flocked to the universities, as adventurers to the new world of America, and there the old authority received a deathblow.   anvd [Please select]