Horace Walpole on Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton

“What can one say of the D. of G., but that his whole conduct is childish, insolent, inconstant, and absurd—nay, ruinous? Because we are not in confusion enough, he makes everything as bad as possible, neglecting on one hand, and taking no precautions on the other. I neither see how it is possible for him to remain minister, nor whom to put in his place. No Government, no police, London and Middlesex distracted, the Colonies in rebellion, Ireland ready to be so, and France arrogant, and on the point of being hostile!”

“[T]he Duke of Grafton like an apprentice, thinking the world should be postponed to a whore and a horse-race.”