"He is not a ship-of-the-line, but he carries many guns, is tight built, and is out in all weather."
— Spencer Perceval

January 1, 1970

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Henry Grattan, quoted in Henry Richard Vassall, Third Lord Holland, Further Memoirs of the Whig Party 1807–1821 With Some Miscellaneous Reminiscences, ed. Lord Stavordale (1905), p. 133