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Subtitles: Lu�s Filipe Bernardes

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1770, on the eve on the American
War of Independence

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Pitt the Elder, Earl of Chatham
returns to the House of Lords.

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My Lords, in a just and necessary war...

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...to maintain the rights and
honor of the country,

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I would strip the shirt from my
back to support it.

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But in a war against the British
colonists in America,

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unjust in its principles,
impracticable in its means,

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and ruinous in its consequences,

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I would not contribute a single
effort or a single farthing.

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For we now seek to wage war...

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...against our brethren and our
countrymen in America,

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of the same language, the same
laws, the same liberties,

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the same religion endeared to us
by every tie that sanctifies humanity.

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My Lords,

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I venture to say it.

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Your efforts will be forever
vain and impotent!

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You cannot conquer America!

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Were I an American, as I am an Englishman,

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while a foreign troop
was landed in my country,

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I would not lay down my arms!

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Never.

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Never.

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Never.

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William, this is your birthday,
I take wine with you.

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You heard me speak this afternoon?

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Yes, Sir.

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- Did I meet with your approval?
- Yes indeed, Sir.

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That's very gratifying, William,
very gratifying.

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William.

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What is my name?

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The Earl of Chatham, Sir.

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No, no, no, William, that's but
a cloak to cover my old age.

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My name is your name, William Pitt.

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And I bequeath it to you.

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As my second son, you will go into the
House of Commons as I did before you.

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Yes, Sir.

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There was a time when I bore
the proudest title a man ever had.

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It was given to me by no King,

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nor did I kneel for it
before any Prince or Pope.

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It was the people themselves
who crowned me...

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William Pitt, the Great Commoner.

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I would not wish you a better title.

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My son,

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evil days are coming to us.

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There may come a time when
only a single-minded man can save us.

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- William.
- Yes, Sir?

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Are you very drunk?

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- Yes, Sir.
- You come to be in that state?

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You shouldn't be upset by a
bottle or two of port at your age.

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Your conversation is intoxicating.

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- It's time you went to bed.
- Thank you, Sir.

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- Good night to you, Sir.
- Good night, my boy.

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- William Pitt.
- Sir?

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Do not seek fame through war.

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No, Sir.

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Did you ever have a son,
Mrs. Sparry?

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No, My Lord.

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Then you've missed the greatest joy
and the greatest gamble in the world.

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You must watch over him.

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One day there may be need of him.

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August 15.

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Child's Christian name, please.

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- Napoleon.
- Napoleon.

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Thank you, Signor Bonaparte.

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The Earl of Chatham dies.

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The war against the America is lost.

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Governments come and go,
the glory of England fades.

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The decadence of the Court of
France infects the society of Britain.

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It is an age of highly polished manners
and rather low behaviour

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Of gay satins and miserable rags.

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The aristocracy get mellow
on delicate wine...

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whilst the poor dead drunk on
gin at a penny a pint.

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Men are hanged for stealing sheep...

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...whilst other grow fat on
the proceeds of corruption.

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The wormwood eats into the Army,
the Navy and Parliament,

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where the unpopular coalition government
of Lord North and Charles Fox...

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sticks its head ostrich-like
in the sands of time...

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whilst the country sprawls
aimlessly on a multicoloured quilt...

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...of feckless folly.

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Mr. William Pitt.

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What do you think of these, Mr. Pitt?

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Like the cheeks of a bishop, eh, what?

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Have you ever seen more
magnificent specimens?

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- No, Your Majesty.
- No, no, of course you haven't.

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When it comes to growing turnips,
I'm the first farmer in Europe, eh, what?

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Here, examine them for yourself.
That's right, take it, weigh it, smell it.

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- A remarkable vegetable, Sir.
- Yes, isn't it?

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Since you're on your way tomorrow,
take some along with you, eh, what?

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I will, Sir, it's most kind of you.

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You'll be good enough to tell
me how they eat, Mr. Pitt.

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I will indeed, Sir.

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You are very young, Mr. Pitt.

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Time may be relied upon
to rectify that, Sir.

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Yes.

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Still you're exceedingly young
to be my Prime Minister.

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I thank you for the honour, Sir.

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I've watched your career with interest.

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And my father did, as you know. I'm tired
of being served by knaves and fools.

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I take it you accept, eh, what?

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I do, Sir.

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Eh, accept... good.

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Think you can form a government, eh?

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I do, Sir.

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Well, I hope you're right.

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I've got the most confidence
in you, Mr. Pitt.

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In spite of your opposition to my
wishes in regard to the war...

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...with my rebellious American subjects.

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Yes, I suppose I should call them
my late American subjects now, eh, what?

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I did what I felt to be my duty, Sir.

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Yes, there's another point, Mr. Pitt.

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You're a reformer, eh?
You like to change things?

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I hope we shall have no
innovations in my time.

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We shall restrict them to
those that are necessary, Sir.

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Oh, well, good night to you.

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Good night, Sir.

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Discuss the ministry in the morning, eh?

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Yes.

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There appear to be only two of us.
What would you care to play?

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�cart� or piquet?

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I didn't come to play cards.

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Very wise, William.

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My life has been made hideous by
bad cards and good women.

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I don't know which is the more tedious.

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You heard the King sent
for his Seals, I suppose?

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- I have.
- I'm not complaining.

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The royal sack suits me like a velvet cloak.
I shall go to Newmarket for 48 hours.

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And then?

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And then?

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His Majesty having discovered that
no one can form a government,

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will send once more for that lump
of moral disease Lord North...

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...and that despicable cesspool
of vice Mr. Fox.

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Can't do without us.

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Charles.

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The King has sent for me.

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And I'm going to form
a government.

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This is a grisly hour for
a joke, William.

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No man was ever more
in earnest, Charles.

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Now don't say it.

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What?

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You're very young, Mr. Pitt.

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But my dear Billy, Prime
Minister of England at 24?

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That's why I want you to join me,
Charles, I need your help.

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The House of Commons is
rotten with corruption.

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Help me to drive the money changers out,
let's make a clean sweep.

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Ah, the new broom.

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The new broom.

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Where are the bristles?
Where are your followers?

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Lord North and I have a large
Party, we hold all the aces.

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Why should we throw in our hands just
because you have a king up your sleeve?

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I'm not interested in your
Party, Charles, only in you.

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The ideas of yesterday are dead
and those of today are dying.

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It's being in step with the
ideas of tomorrow that counts.

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We are men of the future.

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I'm sorry to disappoint you, William.

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The House can only be influenced
by those who hold a majority.

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Not by one who has only recently
attained his.

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The infirmity of youth is curable.

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The cure would take 10 years,
and you'll be killed in a night by laughter.

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Parliament's no place for preambulators.

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Believe me, the country will
prefer them to Bath chairs.

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It's true that I haven't lost a continent
like your colleague, Lord North,

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nor forfeited a fortune I don't possess
in this Mr. Brook's home of state craft.

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But in spite these drawbacks you can
see that I can and will govern.

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William.

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You didn't really expect me
to support you, did you?

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Sir, the state of this country
has never been lower.

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I believed that you were the only other
man who might be able to restore her.

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We are faced today, Sirs,

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with what is perhaps the most
extraordinary situation...

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...in the whole history of this House.

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His Majesty has seen fit to exercise
the royal prerogative so imprudently...

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as to place the affairs of this great
nation into the hands of an inordinately...

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ambitious young man whose youth
is his only possible excuse...

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...for his rashness in accepting office.

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I can think of nothing more
calculated to leave a...

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Luckily the situation is clear
to the House,

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for I freely confess that for once
words fail me.

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I therefore move that the House...

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...go into committee forthwith to
enquire into the State of the Nation.

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Mr. Pitt.

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Order! Order!

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The motion which the Right Honorable
Gentleman has seen fit to put forward...

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...is one which in conscience I
would not feel justified to decline.

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Ambitious for myself I may be.

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Ambitious for the greatness
and prosperity of Britain...

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...I certainly am, and ever will be.

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For they constitute the happiness
and pride of my life.

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Hear him! Hear him!

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- They must be made to listen.
- We are in the minority.

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In Parliament, yes, but in
the country, I wonder.

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Whoa! Whoa!

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What's wrong, Barker?

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Like an infant, Sir.
Broken a wheel, I think.

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It's him.

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Billy Pitt to be sure.

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What is it?

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You're not wanted. People who won't
take a hint ought to be taught!

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???

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Eleven o'clock in a fine calm night.

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Eleven o'clock...

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...o'clock on a fine calm night.

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Well, Dan?

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Jackson!

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- One.
- Two!

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That's better.

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Thank you, that's much easier.

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So you two gentleman are
followers of the fancy.

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I'm Dan Mendoza, Whitechapel,
ex-champion of England.

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That's Gentleman Jackson,
the reigning champion.

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If you'd care to enroll in
my academy, Mr. Pitt,

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I'd consider it a privilege to
instruct you in the noble art.

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I'll bear it in mind. It seems I must
be prepared to defend myself...

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...not only against the representatives of
the people but the people themselves.

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Surely, Sir, you don't think what happened
outside had anything to do with the people.

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Well, there seemed to be
plenty of people about.

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One of those ruffians dropped these.

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I know them, Sir, and it's not likely
they came by guinea pieces...

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...through honest labour.

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Do you mean they were
paid for this?

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By some of your political enemies,
most likely. They're afraid of you.

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But you've no enemies amongst the
common folk of London, I swear it.

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No?

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Oh, I wondered perhaps that they
considered me too young for the...

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- Not a bit of it, eh, Dan?
- No, it's same as in the fancy, Sir.

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A game young'un is always better than
a game old'un, begging your pardon, Sir.

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Did you hear that, Wilberforce?

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I fear that I'm about to be sick.

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Henry, show the gentleman
the vomitorium.

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I've met with such opposition
in Parliament.

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I was beginning to think the whole
country was against me.

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Not on your life, Sir.
You mustn't lose heart.

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Believe me, Mr. Pitt, you're
closer watched...

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...than if you were the favorite
for the Derby.

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Make a round of the public houses, Mr. Pitt,
and you'll been in no doubt about it.

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I find you mighty refreshing,
gentlemen.

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Tell me what do you think
of the state of the country?

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I couldn't find proper language
for it, Sir.

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And you, Mr. Mendoza?

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Well, it ain't what it was in
your old Dad's time, is it, Sir?

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00:19:02,872 --> 00:19:06,850
No, by heaven it's not. We're held
in contempt throughout Europe.

242
00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,658
Our ships can scarce command
the Channel.

243
00:19:09,758 --> 00:19:11,999
We're considered a third-rate power.

244
00:19:12,465 --> 00:19:13,844
The country is bankrupt.

245
00:19:14,264 --> 00:19:15,919
Is that true?

246
00:19:15,939 --> 00:19:18,204
Yes, Sir, and more is the pity
every word of it.

247
00:19:21,624 --> 00:19:23,900
How think you if I appealed
to the people?

248
00:19:23,999 --> 00:19:26,367
Taking my stand on peace
and reform.

249
00:19:27,124 --> 00:19:28,483
Will they be behind me?

250
00:19:28,573 --> 00:19:30,355
They are behind you already, Sir.

251
00:19:30,489 --> 00:19:33,061
Peel off their mufflers and
take the fight to them, Mr. Pitt,

252
00:19:33,181 --> 00:19:36,080
and I'm a Dutchman if
you don't get the decision.

253
00:19:37,299 --> 00:19:38,345
Thank you.

254
00:19:39,536 --> 00:19:42,196
Mr. Jackson, I look towards you.

255
00:19:42,197 --> 00:19:45,797
Mr. Pitt, you, not I, are
the champion of England.

256
00:19:45,898 --> 00:19:47,998
And I likewise bow.

257
00:19:56,292 --> 00:19:58,800
The young whippersnapper's
overstepped himself this time!

258
00:19:58,877 --> 00:20:01,600
Just before the Easter recess too.
Upset all my plans.

259
00:20:01,620 --> 00:20:03,520
- That's unheard of.
- Well, what's happened?

260
00:20:03,545 --> 00:20:04,865
Pitt's appealed to the country!

261
00:20:04,885 --> 00:20:07,600
The King's dissolving Parliament and
calling a general election

262
00:20:07,639 --> 00:20:08,945
A general election?

263
00:20:17,546 --> 00:20:21,846
(in Irish)

264
00:20:26,135 --> 00:20:29,100
Vote for me, and no rents
for a month.

265
00:20:29,253 --> 00:20:31,971
Oh, your worship! Let me out
and you got me vote!

266
00:20:34,202 --> 00:20:36,800
I stand for peace, retrenchments...

267
00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,800
- ...and reform.
- I stand for three acres and a cow for...

268
00:20:39,801 --> 00:20:43,101
I stand for your interests and
that of the nation at last!

269
00:20:54,345 --> 00:20:56,800
Richard White voting for Fox.

270
00:20:56,821 --> 00:20:58,600
- Over there on the left.
- Excellent.

271
00:20:59,644 --> 00:21:02,529
Pitt's name is beating Clark as well.

272
00:21:05,391 --> 00:21:07,900
- Name?
- Charles James Fox...

273
00:21:07,931 --> 00:21:10,999
...voting for Charles James Fox.

274
00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:14,200
Pitt's knocking them cold,
I tell you!

275
00:21:18,897 --> 00:21:23,643
The whole country's gone pit mad
from land-centered voters.

276
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,754
I noticed that port still in the hall.
Have another uncrated, will you?

277
00:21:50,850 --> 00:21:53,548
You never know, I may be here
long enough to drink it.

278
00:22:09,078 --> 00:22:13,250
Excellent, a most lucid demonstration
and the correct conclusion. Passed.

279
00:22:13,499 --> 00:22:16,506
Monsieur, you have my permission
to sign your thesis.

280
00:22:28,543 --> 00:22:32,442
Past three o'clock in a fine,
clear morning.

281
00:22:39,726 --> 00:22:43,401
Past three o'clock in a fine,
clear morning.

282
00:22:43,993 --> 00:22:46,251
The new broom sweeps clean.

283
00:22:46,252 --> 00:22:50,700
New taxes for old, new duties for old,
new finance for old.

284
00:22:50,804 --> 00:22:53,400
Pitt orders the rebuilding
of the navy.

285
00:22:53,530 --> 00:22:56,700
In the forest they hew
the raw material of the fleet.

286
00:22:56,919 --> 00:22:59,933
At Portsmouth, Plymouth,
Rotherhithe and Chatham,

287
00:22:59,999 --> 00:23:04,500
the sounds of shipwright's hammers mingle
with the rattles of chains hauling timber.

288
00:23:04,873 --> 00:23:09,552
The rising cities of the North learn the
first lights of the Industrial Revolution.

289
00:23:09,998 --> 00:23:11,999
The face of Britain changes.

290
00:23:12,507 --> 00:23:19,330
Watt invents the steam engine, Cartwright
the power loom, Trevithick the locomotive.

291
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:25,124
Yet Charles Fox continues to oppose
every new expenditure, but Pitt holds firm.

292
00:23:25,542 --> 00:23:29,720
Before him lies one vital task,
the security of these Islands.

293
00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:31,999
First one ship is launched.

294
00:23:35,306 --> 00:23:36,643
Then another.

295
00:23:43,442 --> 00:23:44,483
And another.

296
00:23:47,909 --> 00:23:51,563
A trickle grows to a stream,
a stream to a deluge.

297
00:23:52,755 --> 00:23:55,200
Till one day in August off Spithead,

298
00:23:55,201 --> 00:23:58,901
lies the whole newly-forged might
of the British Navy.

299
00:24:15,235 --> 00:24:18,300
George, can't we sit down now?

300
00:24:18,335 --> 00:24:21,280
My dear, this is the review of all,
when I review, I review.

301
00:24:21,327 --> 00:24:22,600
And go on reviewing.

302
00:24:22,681 --> 00:24:25,036
Two years ago the Navy
wasn't worth reviewing, eh, what?

303
00:24:27,230 --> 00:24:28,999
Where's Mr. Pitt, eh?

304
00:24:29,013 --> 00:24:30,350
Where's Mr. Pitt?

305
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,489
Sir Evan, find Mr. Pitt. I must
congratulate him, what?

306
00:24:32,499 --> 00:24:35,010
I really must be sit down, dear.
My stays are too tight

307
00:24:35,030 --> 00:24:36,252
Stays?

308
00:24:36,338 --> 00:24:38,909
Ask the Admirals, they'll loosen them.
Sailors know all about stays. what?

309
00:24:38,950 --> 00:24:40,120
George!

310
00:24:40,144 --> 00:24:42,599
- Have you seen Mr. Pitt?
- No, Sir.

311
00:24:46,928 --> 00:24:48,008
Did you hear that?

312
00:24:48,043 --> 00:24:50,500
I believe there's a kind of a
function on here tonight, you know?

313
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,800
- No really?
- Don't you think it's about time...

314
00:24:51,801 --> 00:24:53,530
- ...you put in an appearence?
- Oh, must I?

315
00:24:53,556 --> 00:24:56,800
- I know you're a sort of matrimonial Aunt Sally...
- What is this?

316
00:24:58,374 --> 00:25:00,500
- William...
- Ah, Mr. Pitt!

317
00:25:00,608 --> 00:25:03,056
His Majesty wishes to speak to you.

318
00:25:03,983 --> 00:25:06,550
See if you can persuade them to
open a bottle of Blue Seal.

319
00:25:11,193 --> 00:25:14,731
My dear Mr. Pitt, where have you been
hiding? You know my daughters, I believe.

320
00:25:14,751 --> 00:25:17,374
They were so disappointed
not to see you last Thursday.

321
00:25:17,388 --> 00:25:20,999
Madame, I was torn between Mr.
Wilberforce's Bill for abolishing slavery...

322
00:25:21,022 --> 00:25:23,393
...and your efforts to abolish boredom.

323
00:25:23,954 --> 00:25:25,547
75,000 thousand, Sir.

324
00:25:25,548 --> 00:25:28,700
75,000 acres and in two years?
Amazing, Auckland, amazing.

325
00:25:28,722 --> 00:25:30,800
Ah, Pitt, do you know what
Auckland's been telling me?

326
00:25:30,825 --> 00:25:33,980
They're reclaiming land in Holland.
He knows a devil lot about it for a diplomat.

327
00:25:33,999 --> 00:25:35,823
Should make good ambassador
there, what?

328
00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:38,200
I'm glad you approve of his
appointment, Sir.

329
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,850
Approve? Of course I approve! Send me a
report on the drainage delegation there.

330
00:25:41,889 --> 00:25:43,704
- And watch out for the French, what?
- I will, Sir.

331
00:25:43,854 --> 00:25:45,818
Altogether, Sir, he should have
a busy time.

332
00:25:46,171 --> 00:25:48,304
By the way, I saw you just now
talking to Jenny.

333
00:25:48,457 --> 00:25:50,959
Dangerous clan the Gordons.
Avoid them.

334
00:25:51,018 --> 00:25:53,669
I'm inclined to think that you
should marry in self defense.

335
00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:57,500
I hope I can defend myself, Sir,
without such a drastic step.

336
00:25:57,540 --> 00:25:59,779
Nonsense, get the whole thing
over and done with once and for all.

337
00:25:59,799 --> 00:26:01,350
Take a wife, Mr. Pitt

338
00:26:01,369 --> 00:26:03,170
Whose wife shall I take, Sir?

339
00:26:04,169 --> 00:26:06,133
Choose some amiable creature
without ambition...

340
00:26:06,279 --> 00:26:08,248
...and if possible without intelligence.

341
00:26:08,348 --> 00:26:10,319
Mr. Gibbon is here, Sir.

342
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,683
- You asked for him to be presented.
- Gibbon, Gibbon?

343
00:26:14,189 --> 00:26:16,846
The author of The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire.

344
00:26:16,866 --> 00:26:20,700
- You were presented with 12 volumes, Sir.
- Was I?

345
00:26:21,636 --> 00:26:25,111
Oh yes, yes, I recollect, yes.
Very well.

346
00:26:25,770 --> 00:26:28,635
- Well, Mr. Pitt, think over what I said.
- I will, Sir.

347
00:26:29,008 --> 00:26:30,652
Must secure the succession, eh?

348
00:26:33,563 --> 00:26:34,999
Mr. Gibbon, Sir.

349
00:26:38,168 --> 00:26:41,266
- How much further to London
- Fifty miles, sir.

350
00:26:44,261 --> 00:26:45,328
I'm tired after last night.

351
00:26:45,348 --> 00:26:49,267
William, I've come to the conclusion
I must be an exceedingly dull dog.

352
00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:52,395
- Been listening to the opposition?
- No, I wasn't thinking of politics?

353
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:54,897
But there are other things in life.

354
00:26:55,436 --> 00:26:58,554
- Your father found time to marry.
- What's that got to do with it?

355
00:26:59,206 --> 00:27:01,995
No, no, I've got too much
to do just now.

356
00:27:02,502 --> 00:27:05,700
- There will always be too much to do.
- Oh, no... No.

357
00:27:06,149 --> 00:27:09,100
Quite soon, perhaps sooner
than we think...

358
00:27:09,566 --> 00:27:11,800
...all our dreams may come true.

359
00:27:12,213 --> 00:27:14,300
The first essential is peace.

360
00:27:14,542 --> 00:27:16,300
And that we have.

361
00:27:17,158 --> 00:27:18,672
Peace.

362
00:27:18,785 --> 00:27:20,314
And then...

363
00:27:21,192 --> 00:27:23,981
As surely as they are taking in
their harvest over there,

364
00:27:24,175 --> 00:27:26,286
the rest will come.

365
00:27:28,870 --> 00:27:30,513
The rest will come.

366
00:27:55,626 --> 00:27:57,819
The prison gates of the Bastille
are down.

367
00:27:57,839 --> 00:28:00,109
And liberty has entered into possession.

368
00:28:00,129 --> 00:28:02,189
Twenty million people have spurned...

369
00:28:02,199 --> 00:28:06,300
...at slavery and demanded freedom
with an irresistible voice.

370
00:28:06,536 --> 00:28:09,955
How much the greatest event it is
that has ever happened in the world,

371
00:28:09,965 --> 00:28:12,302
and how much the best?

372
00:28:26,699 --> 00:28:33,103
We hoped and still hope that the
events in France would bring her freedom.

373
00:28:33,932 --> 00:28:41,000
But now men who are extreme in all
but humanity are grasping at power.

374
00:28:41,410 --> 00:28:45,969
And very soon we may
see liberty for the many...

375
00:28:46,425 --> 00:28:52,340
...used as a stalking horse to
secure license for the few.

376
00:29:10,543 --> 00:29:12,063
The Secretary of State.

377
00:29:17,515 --> 00:29:18,559
Grenville?

378
00:29:18,824 --> 00:29:22,200
France has declared war against
Austria and has invaded Belgium.

379
00:29:24,257 --> 00:29:26,951
We must recall Lord Auckland
from the Hague.

380
00:29:27,043 --> 00:29:30,382
It may become necessary to
fulfill our pact with Holland.

381
00:29:30,392 --> 00:29:32,883
Monsieur de Talleyrand has called
upon me, Sir.

382
00:29:32,999 --> 00:29:35,945
He has asked if you could grant
him a personal interview.

383
00:29:37,237 --> 00:29:40,552
Tell Monsieur de Talleyrand that
I'll see him at 9 o'clock.

384
00:30:02,701 --> 00:30:04,201
Monsieur de Talleyrand.

385
00:30:04,996 --> 00:30:08,047
- Good evening, Monsieur de Talleyrand.
- Good Evening, Mr. Pitt.

386
00:30:08,087 --> 00:30:09,200
I trust you had a fair crossing.

387
00:30:09,245 --> 00:30:13,200
The Channel between our two countries is
narrow but it might with advantage be narrower.

388
00:30:13,232 --> 00:30:15,100
I would that were all that
divided us, Monsieur.

389
00:30:15,157 --> 00:30:18,537
If there's any other gap, Your Excellency,
I feel certain it can be bridged

390
00:30:18,569 --> 00:30:20,100
- Please.
- Thank you.

391
00:30:20,211 --> 00:30:23,400
- Have you heard the news?
- I have and I greatly regret it.

392
00:30:23,690 --> 00:30:25,523
The conflict was forced upon France.

393
00:30:25,553 --> 00:30:28,471
It was the French assembly
who declared war, I believe.

394
00:30:28,552 --> 00:30:30,555
As a measure of self defense.

395
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,829
And as a further measure your
soldiers have invaded Belgium...

396
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,122
and are now seizing Savoy.

397
00:30:34,252 --> 00:30:36,034
Would you like a little port,
Monsieur de Talleyrand?

398
00:30:36,056 --> 00:30:37,341
Thank you, Mr. Pitt.

399
00:30:37,364 --> 00:30:39,495
We've taken Belgium merely
under our protected wing.

400
00:30:39,519 --> 00:30:42,400
We shall withdraw as soon
as our object is achieved.

401
00:30:42,438 --> 00:30:43,845
Thank you.

402
00:30:44,356 --> 00:30:48,700
As for Savoy, it is scarcely
a serious State.

403
00:30:49,259 --> 00:30:50,705
And Holland?

404
00:30:50,937 --> 00:30:52,379
Holland?

405
00:30:53,531 --> 00:30:57,006
We are pledged as you are to
defend that country against the Turk.

406
00:30:57,831 --> 00:31:01,129
I think I may say our word
is as good as our bond.

407
00:31:01,190 --> 00:31:04,721
At this moment I believe your
bonds are at a 60% discount.

408
00:31:08,399 --> 00:31:09,640
Mr. Pitt.

409
00:31:10,448 --> 00:31:15,800
If Britain and France became military
allies we could dominate the world.

410
00:31:17,457 --> 00:31:18,999
Why do you smile?

411
00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:23,900
I was thinking of one of the sayings
for which you are justly celebrated.

412
00:31:23,991 --> 00:31:25,974
Oh, yes, which one?

413
00:31:26,001 --> 00:31:27,591
This one.

414
00:31:27,697 --> 00:31:30,002
Providence gave men the gift of speech...

415
00:31:30,023 --> 00:31:32,903
...so that they might use it
to conceal their thoughts.

416
00:31:32,993 --> 00:31:34,778
Did I really say that?

417
00:31:36,762 --> 00:31:39,966
I have been sent her
quite unofficially, Mr. Pitt.

418
00:31:40,220 --> 00:31:44,800
- And shall we speak unofficially?
- By all means.

419
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:47,731
That is without humbug?

420
00:31:48,169 --> 00:31:49,809
Humbug.

421
00:31:50,019 --> 00:31:52,344
One of my favorite British words.

422
00:31:53,287 --> 00:31:55,263
Please proceed, Mr. Pitt.

423
00:31:55,394 --> 00:32:00,800
Your suggestion of an alliance for world
domination is merely intended as a bait.

424
00:32:01,260 --> 00:32:03,314
I dislike the word bait.

425
00:32:03,541 --> 00:32:06,757
Shall we rather call it a feeler?

426
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,092
To sound our neutrality.

427
00:32:10,408 --> 00:32:12,949
In the language of your elder diplomats,

428
00:32:13,249 --> 00:32:18,999
to discover how much intervention is
likely to be in your non-intervention.

429
00:32:19,206 --> 00:32:20,800
I see.

430
00:32:21,491 --> 00:32:23,600
Let me be completely frank with you.

431
00:32:23,874 --> 00:32:27,469
I have already sent for our
Ambassador at the Hague, Lord Auckland.

432
00:32:27,887 --> 00:32:29,429
Indeed.

433
00:32:29,523 --> 00:32:33,054
When he returns I shall instruct
him to inform the Dutch government...

434
00:32:33,074 --> 00:32:39,500
...that if Holland is attacked, Britain
will at once go to her aid.

435
00:32:43,643 --> 00:32:48,068
I feel confident that the independence
of Holland will be respected.

436
00:32:48,474 --> 00:32:52,528
Have you the same confidence, Monsieur,
in the conduct of your masters in Paris?

437
00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:55,639
Oh, la, la how can I say that?
Nothing is permanent in Paris.

438
00:32:55,688 --> 00:32:58,550
Have you noticed that when a bunch
of horses gallop while they're together,

439
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,500
for a moment they stay amassed...

440
00:33:00,546 --> 00:33:03,153
and then, as the race proceeds,
one outdistances the others?

441
00:33:03,183 --> 00:33:08,100
It's the same with men. What would
you do if such a man arose in France?

442
00:33:08,147 --> 00:33:10,500
If such a man arose I
would certainly deplore it.

443
00:33:10,551 --> 00:33:14,137
But I would attach myself firmly
to him at the first opportunity.

444
00:33:15,027 --> 00:33:18,130
- Good night, Mr. Pitt.
- Good night, Mr. de Talleyrand.

445
00:33:45,166 --> 00:33:49,790
Do not seek fame through war.

446
00:33:52,491 --> 00:33:59,999



447
00:34:00,050 --> 00:34:07,200



448
00:34:07,201 --> 00:34:14,101



449
00:34:14,132 --> 00:34:16,802


450
00:34:16,991 --> 00:34:20,181
Lands of fortification at
Flushing are in perfect order.

451
00:34:20,276 --> 00:34:22,000
Good, and Amsterdam?

452
00:34:22,482 --> 00:34:25,263
The people of Amsterdam are well
affected towards the government.

453
00:34:25,346 --> 00:34:27,745
There are a number of Frenchmen
of various denominations...

454
00:34:27,765 --> 00:34:30,392
who are disposed to spread
reports and...

455
00:34:30,427 --> 00:34:33,916
I'm sorry, Sir, I should have warned
the servants to keep the waifs away.

456
00:34:34,052 --> 00:34:37,300
No, no, Auckland, they remind us that
we must do everything in our power...

457
00:34:37,334 --> 00:34:39,168
...to preserve the peace.

458
00:34:41,922 --> 00:34:44,999
The ill wind which blew you from Holland
brought certain benefits.

459
00:34:45,036 --> 00:34:46,900
Did your daughter return with you?

460
00:34:46,953 --> 00:34:48,999
Eleanor, oh yes, of course.

461
00:34:49,321 --> 00:34:52,080
It is imperative that the Dutch
should take every possible precaution...

462
00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:54,150
...to guard against any sudden step
by the French.

463
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,314
I agree, Sir.

464
00:35:05,991 --> 00:35:07,758
As to the hidden menace to Amsterdam,

465
00:35:07,798 --> 00:35:11,465
we can deal with that as and
when it becomes necessary.

466
00:35:13,020 --> 00:35:16,400
I'm sorry, Father, I know you said
you weren't to be disturbed.

467
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:17,999
Good evening, Mr. Pitt.

468
00:35:18,756 --> 00:35:20,002
Good evening.

469
00:35:20,157 --> 00:35:23,781
It's the waifs, Father, you can't disappoint
them, they've called to drink your health.

470
00:35:23,883 --> 00:35:27,164
I'm afraid they'll have to drink in
my absence, this year, my dear.

471
00:35:27,264 --> 00:35:29,647
Nonsense, Auckland, it's customs
like these that make Christmas.

472
00:35:29,687 --> 00:35:31,050
Besides, we're nearly finished.

473
00:35:31,100 --> 00:35:33,725
Very well, if you'll excuse me.

474
00:35:33,874 --> 00:35:36,662
You must be pleased to be home,
Miss Eden.

475
00:35:36,799 --> 00:35:40,192
So pleased that I'm already sad at
the thought of returning to the Hague.

476
00:35:40,394 --> 00:35:43,300
I suppose you couldn't arrange to make
my father ambassador to Kent?

477
00:35:43,334 --> 00:35:45,558
At least until the tulips
bloom again in Holland.

478
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,300
If they bloom, if they are not
trampled under foot by the invader.

479
00:35:48,358 --> 00:35:50,904
- It's not as bad as all that, is it?
- I hope not.

480
00:35:50,955 --> 00:35:53,456
Has your father's assistant,
Mr. Smelleck, I believe he was called,

481
00:35:53,586 --> 00:35:55,860
has he added any more languages
to his repertoire?

482
00:35:55,890 --> 00:35:57,468
I don't think there are any more left.

483
00:35:57,488 --> 00:35:59,549
I was sorry about his three rivals.

484
00:35:59,650 --> 00:36:01,999
There are drawbacks to
being my father's daughter.

485
00:36:02,031 --> 00:36:03,356
He might choose you a husband.

486
00:36:03,451 --> 00:36:06,680
He would. But so long as I seem to be
attached elsewhere, he doesn't mind.

487
00:36:06,704 --> 00:36:09,400
So, from Easter to Whitsun
I have to be in love with Jeff.

488
00:36:09,459 --> 00:36:11,500
And from Whitsun to Midsummer
it's Ernest,

489
00:36:11,540 --> 00:36:13,783
and from Midsummer to
Christmas it's all Hobart.

490
00:36:13,818 --> 00:36:15,624
You haven't seen the children
about have you?

491
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:18,544
- Eleanor, the waits are just leaving.
- All right I'm coming.

492
00:36:19,568 --> 00:36:20,688
Is that Hobart?

493
00:36:20,783 --> 00:36:21,910
Yes.

494
00:36:21,931 --> 00:36:24,260
His time is nearly up. Have you
appointed his successor?

495
00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:25,528
Not yet.

496
00:36:25,548 --> 00:36:28,228
You will be staying over
Christmas, Mr. Pitt?

497
00:36:28,548 --> 00:36:32,385
Oh, yes, but not alas from
Christmas to Easter.

498
00:36:44,121 --> 00:36:45,884
Hello, what are you up to?

499
00:36:45,912 --> 00:36:49,013
- It's a game.
- Nurse isn't to know.

500
00:36:49,317 --> 00:36:51,100
Is there anybody about?

501
00:36:51,202 --> 00:36:52,584
I don't see anybody.

502
00:36:52,601 --> 00:36:55,272
- Are you sure?
- Positive

503
00:36:55,412 --> 00:36:58,898
We mustn't be caught,
we've lost half of our side already.

504
00:36:58,998 --> 00:36:59,962
What's happened to them?

505
00:37:00,047 --> 00:37:03,050
Some are dead and some are
prisoners in the nursery.

506
00:37:03,144 --> 00:37:05,500
- And you've got to rescue them.
- Yes.

507
00:37:05,555 --> 00:37:06,580
Well, let's finish.

508
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,558
Let's go and see if all is clear.

509
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,559
- Goodbye.
- Goodbye.

510
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,260
Goodbye.

511
00:37:25,024 --> 00:37:26,691
See you at the Cock and Bull,
Mr. Somerset

512
00:37:48,030 --> 00:37:49,161
Mr. Pitt!

513
00:37:49,278 --> 00:37:52,151
Nothing of the sort, I'm Chief Brown Owl,
I'm trying to restore the balance of power.

514
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:53,804
Without much success apparently.

515
00:37:53,834 --> 00:37:56,403
Well, what do you expect at my age?

516
00:37:56,433 --> 00:37:58,200
You haven't forgotten that, have you?

517
00:37:58,799 --> 00:38:01,346
Made me realize that Parliament
has aged me beyond my years.

518
00:38:01,375 --> 00:38:03,281
- Why don't you stay over Christmas?
- Why not?

519
00:38:03,381 --> 00:38:05,557
Why not until after Easter?

520
00:38:05,658 --> 00:38:06,800
- There he is!
- Help!

521
00:38:06,833 --> 00:38:08,850
Go down the servants' staircase
at the end of the corridor.

522
00:38:08,884 --> 00:38:11,000
Thank you, I'll see you later,
O First Lady of the Household.

523
00:38:11,022 --> 00:38:14,358
I shall be waiting, O First Lord
of the Treasury.

524
00:38:24,053 --> 00:38:25,922
This way please, Sir.

525
00:38:33,375 --> 00:38:35,904
I will inform Mr. Pitt immediately, Sir.

526
00:39:17,187 --> 00:39:20,209
William, yesterday at dawn the French
fleet sailed into the Scheldt...

527
00:39:20,356 --> 00:39:22,813
...and their army is amassed on
the frontiers of Holland.

528
00:39:27,646 --> 00:39:31,117
With 90 out of our 113 sail
of the line in commission..

529
00:39:31,217 --> 00:39:33,049
the Navy has never been
better prepared.

530
00:39:33,190 --> 00:39:36,568
Good, we shall instantly assemble
a naval squadron off the Downs.

531
00:39:36,662 --> 00:39:38,400
They don't take our warnings seriously.

532
00:39:38,454 --> 00:39:42,780
Is that surprising with Mr. Fox egging
the frogs on whenever he gets to his feet?

533
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,550
Mr. Fox puts on his rosiest spectacles
whenever he looks across the Channel.

534
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,700
- I hope to induce him to take them off.
- I wish you success, Sir.

535
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,100
For my part I shall feel
more at home at sea.

536
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,924
Unlike Mr. Fox who couldn't
be more at sea at home.

537
00:39:54,594 --> 00:39:57,468
Gentlemen, we shall continue to
make all efforts for peace...

538
00:39:57,488 --> 00:40:01,191
...and we must still hope that it may yet be
maintained. Thank you gentlemen, good night.

539
00:40:13,003 --> 00:40:17,000
We shall bring down to the
kings as a gage of battle...

540
00:40:17,282 --> 00:40:19,900
...the head of the king!

541
00:40:22,380 --> 00:40:25,227
On the most groundless pretenses...

542
00:40:25,247 --> 00:40:29,739
...the assembly now exercising the
powers of government in France,

543
00:40:29,879 --> 00:40:33,290
has declared war against His Majesty.

544
00:40:33,659 --> 00:40:37,817
Under this wanton and
unprovoked aggression,

545
00:40:38,009 --> 00:40:40,904
His Majesty relies with confidence...

546
00:40:41,004 --> 00:40:44,692
on the zealous exertions of
a brave and loyal people...

547
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:50,760
...in prosecuting a just and
necessary war!

548
00:40:56,931 --> 00:40:59,161
A man of peace becomes a man of war.

549
00:40:59,191 --> 00:41:02,953
From the stormy debate in the House to
discuss the strategy of war with the Army,

550
00:41:03,218 --> 00:41:07,700
to Walmer castle where he's Warden of the
Cinque Ports to approve plans for the Navy.

551
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,693
And then far into the
night at Downing Street,

552
00:41:09,785 --> 00:41:13,673
unsparingly to direct the efforts of
the nation towards a common goal.

553
00:41:14,264 --> 00:41:17,135
His efforts are rewarded.
The war goes well for England.

554
00:41:17,155 --> 00:41:19,103
The British forces march on Dunquerque...

555
00:41:19,133 --> 00:41:22,012
and the French are besieged in Toulon.

556
00:41:22,707 --> 00:41:25,456
Citizen Bonaparte, I presume the
Convention knows what it is about.

557
00:41:25,559 --> 00:41:27,337
But I warned you, you will have
nothing to do.

558
00:41:27,530 --> 00:41:30,557
In a matter of days we shall have
taken the British stronghold by assault.

559
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,909
At this moment our canons
are preparing the way.

560
00:41:32,949 --> 00:41:36,774
May I suggest, Citizen General, a measure
by which our victory might be hastened?

561
00:41:37,295 --> 00:41:38,341
Oh, what?

562
00:41:38,429 --> 00:41:41,519
It strikes me that our artillery might
perhaps be a little more effective...

563
00:41:41,539 --> 00:41:44,850
...if we were to move it forward
so that its fire can reach the enemy.

564
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,042
At the moment, Citizen General,
we are out of gunshot.

565
00:41:55,596 --> 00:41:59,152
Kicked out of Toulon by a little
Corsican bandit, nobody ever heard of.

566
00:41:59,252 --> 00:42:02,653
And now chased from Dunquerque
by a rabble of ragtag and bobtail.

567
00:42:02,724 --> 00:42:04,324
Well, thank heaven for the Navy.

568
00:42:04,369 --> 00:42:06,881
On my soul, I could conduct
the war better myself.

569
00:42:06,908 --> 00:42:08,900
That many-headed monster,
the British public,

570
00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:11,127
will soon be crying out for victories.

571
00:42:11,227 --> 00:42:14,200
Great walloping juicy victories
served up with hot red gravy,

572
00:42:14,370 --> 00:42:17,295
and not much longer be content
with Uncle William's cold potatoes.

573
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:18,800
Oh, curse Pitt.

574
00:42:18,954 --> 00:42:21,774
Fox was right, with the
British driven from the Continent...

575
00:42:21,794 --> 00:42:25,300
...the sweetness of victories gave
way to the bitterness of defeats.

576
00:42:25,586 --> 00:42:29,026
The armies of France swept across
the Low Countries and invaded Italy.

577
00:42:29,126 --> 00:42:31,702
Three years of war had impaired his health.

578
00:42:31,802 --> 00:42:36,331
But he fought on with a single purpose
against the rising tide of public opinion.

579
00:42:36,858 --> 00:42:39,999
Finding rare moments of
leisure at Lord Auckland's house,

580
00:42:40,293 --> 00:42:43,177
on his journeys from Downing
street to Walmer Castle.

581
00:42:45,955 --> 00:42:48,240
One gulp and it's gone.

582
00:42:48,490 --> 00:42:52,119
The taste will stay for hours unless
Somerset brings something to drown it.

583
00:42:53,025 --> 00:42:56,092
- You're working too hard
- Working too hard?

584
00:42:56,099 --> 00:42:58,850
Sitting here with you in
this beautiful garden?

585
00:42:58,879 --> 00:43:00,200
First time for months.

586
00:43:00,234 --> 00:43:02,771
Five weeks and two days
to be exact.

587
00:43:02,861 --> 00:43:04,900
Only because you're on your
way to Walmer.

588
00:43:04,999 --> 00:43:07,200
Even there you'll be working
yourself to death.

589
00:43:07,376 --> 00:43:10,456
There, come on, drink it up
like a good boy, please me.

590
00:43:10,576 --> 00:43:13,872
That's a better reason than
any other doctor could give.

591
00:43:17,064 --> 00:43:19,004
Did you hear anything, Mr. Somerset?

592
00:43:19,170 --> 00:43:22,332
I'm not in the habit of
eavesdropping, Mrs. Carr.

593
00:43:22,472 --> 00:43:24,770
Changed your habits very
suddenly, haven't you?

594
00:43:24,895 --> 00:43:28,900
In the course of my duties I am bound
to hear a great deal whether I listen or not.

595
00:43:28,999 --> 00:43:32,579
All right, Mr. Somerset, what did
you hear that you didn't listen to?

596
00:43:32,618 --> 00:43:33,762
Nothing.

597
00:43:33,965 --> 00:43:38,181
At least nothing of any consequence.
It is true that by accident...

598
00:43:38,272 --> 00:43:42,100
I did hear Mr. Pitt observe that the
effect would be disastrous.

599
00:43:42,209 --> 00:43:43,344
Effect of what?

600
00:43:43,409 --> 00:43:45,792
Having the Italians on our
side, I expect.

601
00:43:45,814 --> 00:43:47,800
Precisely what escaped me.

602
00:43:47,992 --> 00:43:50,801
If you want my opinion, I bet he
shouldn't be here the way the war's going.

603
00:43:50,850 --> 00:43:52,918
He only looked in on his way home.

604
00:43:52,999 --> 00:43:56,800
He's got to have some time to himself,
working like a dog in Downing Street.

605
00:43:56,870 --> 00:43:59,199
Trying to put everything right
what our generals have done wrong.

606
00:43:59,302 --> 00:44:02,004
He's entitled to an hour or
two with his girl, isn't he?

607
00:44:04,405 --> 00:44:07,405
Let's get the ponies and ride out
from the terrace.

608
00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:15,600
William, when can you come
here for a real rest?

609
00:44:15,709 --> 00:44:16,795
In my dreams.

610
00:44:16,988 --> 00:44:19,004
When the war is won.

611
00:44:19,916 --> 00:44:22,363
The fires of war need feeding.

612
00:44:22,405 --> 00:44:24,531
War make men harsh.

613
00:44:24,726 --> 00:44:28,900
For harsh measures.
Until victory is won...

614
00:44:28,917 --> 00:44:31,900
there must be no softness in my heart.

615
00:44:31,999 --> 00:44:36,995
- In peacetime everything is possible.
- Yes.

616
00:44:38,596 --> 00:44:39,999
I beg your pardon, Sir.

617
00:44:40,413 --> 00:44:41,963
I must go.

618
00:44:50,104 --> 00:44:51,152
Good bye.

619
00:44:55,898 --> 00:44:58,600
Mr. Pitt, look, watch me!

620
00:44:58,658 --> 00:45:00,200
Hello, Johnny!

621
00:45:00,388 --> 00:45:02,999
I can't look at you or I'll fall off.

622
00:45:30,336 --> 00:45:33,000
You shouldn't be out in the rain,
you'll get yourself coughing.

623
00:45:33,113 --> 00:45:34,680
Hello, Mary has somebody called?

624
00:45:34,863 --> 00:45:37,075
Mr. Grenville, with a young
man name of Melvill.

625
00:45:37,102 --> 00:45:38,417
You must cast off your clothes.

626
00:45:40,893 --> 00:45:44,143
- Are your feet dry, Master Billy?
- No, they're soaking.

627
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:45,388
- Soaking?
- Soaking.

628
00:45:45,399 --> 00:45:46,800
Grenville!

629
00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,099
Nanny, I've never felt
dryer in my life.

630
00:45:49,156 --> 00:45:50,500
I know, a bottle of port

631
00:45:50,533 --> 00:45:52,771
Hello, Grenville, what are you
doing here this time of the night?

632
00:45:52,791 --> 00:45:54,622
I brought a young man named
Melvill with me.

633
00:45:54,659 --> 00:45:57,900
What he says is almost incredible
but not doubtful, mind you.

634
00:45:57,954 --> 00:45:59,112
What's it all about?

635
00:45:59,216 --> 00:46:01,800
He is in close touch with the
moderates of the French Government.

636
00:46:01,822 --> 00:46:03,679
Come and speak to him
yourself, William.

637
00:46:07,831 --> 00:46:10,500
- Sir.
- You're an American.

638
00:46:10,555 --> 00:46:11,400
Yes, Sir.

639
00:46:11,443 --> 00:46:14,100
I left Paris 3 days ago.
Arrived in London this morning.

640
00:46:14,133 --> 00:46:17,600
Mr. Grenville informs me that you're
in touch with the French moderates.

641
00:46:17,661 --> 00:46:20,534
Very so, Sir. And Monsieur Talleyrand
asked me to give you a message.

642
00:46:20,647 --> 00:46:22,800
Is Monsieur Talleyrand in power?

643
00:46:22,984 --> 00:46:24,780
He is not at present in office, but...

644
00:46:24,808 --> 00:46:27,946
...so long Monsieur Talleyrand
is in Paris, he is always in power.

645
00:46:28,190 --> 00:46:29,702
And what was the message?

646
00:46:29,974 --> 00:46:33,400
He asked me to tell you that...
Gee, I hope I got this right.

647
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:38,400
That my visit like his is unofficial
but without humbug.

648
00:46:38,559 --> 00:46:41,400
And what do Monsieur Talleyrand...

649
00:46:41,451 --> 00:46:46,000
...and the gentlemen of the French government
hope to gain from your visit, Mr. Melvill?

650
00:46:46,110 --> 00:46:48,200
Peace, Mr. Pitt.

651
00:46:49,288 --> 00:46:50,999
Peace?

652
00:46:51,057 --> 00:46:54,800
France is bankrupt and the people want it.
I know it sounds crazy,

653
00:46:54,901 --> 00:46:57,900
but I think I can get it in the
most acceptable terms.

654
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,500
- You, Mr. Melvill?
- Yes, Sir.

655
00:47:03,096 --> 00:47:07,594
If we lost this war, Harry, which God
forbid it, it'd be a judgement.

656
00:47:08,801 --> 00:47:12,360
A judgement for all the
dissipation and crime...

657
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:16,200
...that's been going on in this
country this past 100 years.

658
00:47:17,082 --> 00:47:19,665
When is the war going
to be over, Your Honour?

659
00:47:19,765 --> 00:47:22,800
You must ask that fellow Pitt,
he's keeping the thing going.

660
00:47:22,999 --> 00:47:25,510
Pitt negotiating peace with France.

661
00:47:25,767 --> 00:47:28,999
Pitt negotiating peace with France.

662
00:47:29,111 --> 00:47:31,451
Well, it's quite time it was over...

663
00:47:31,501 --> 00:47:37,320
...with taxation soaring like one of those
idiotic balloons, life hardly worth living.

664
00:47:47,009 --> 00:47:49,494
Where does she come from
do you think?

665
00:47:49,539 --> 00:47:51,800
It is probably the Bark from the Hague.

666
00:47:51,993 --> 00:47:54,600
I wonder when we shall be able
to take the Channel packet?

667
00:47:54,769 --> 00:47:59,700
Cross those few miles into France
and go again to Paris and Brussels.

668
00:47:59,915 --> 00:48:02,078
Rome, and Venice.

669
00:48:02,992 --> 00:48:05,289
It may not be so very long.

670
00:48:06,489 --> 00:48:08,777
I've very great hopes.

671
00:48:09,847 --> 00:48:11,994
We are discussing it now.

672
00:48:12,276 --> 00:48:16,542
In some stuffy room I suppose, with
flies buzzing on the window panes.

673
00:48:16,694 --> 00:48:20,729
I'm sure they'd make a much better
peace if they negotiated in the sunlight.

674
00:48:21,487 --> 00:48:23,938
For that matter under the moon.

675
00:48:24,138 --> 00:48:27,500
The moon? Don't say that,
the French will only ask for it.

676
00:48:29,350 --> 00:48:33,089
I've dreamt of it so long I
hardly dare believe it.

677
00:48:34,905 --> 00:48:36,761
I've dreamt too.

678
00:48:37,186 --> 00:48:39,074
Not only of peace.

679
00:48:40,188 --> 00:48:41,731
Tell me.

680
00:48:42,466 --> 00:48:45,237
If you tell your dreams,
they never come true.

681
00:48:45,787 --> 00:48:48,790
In peacetime all dreams come true.

682
00:48:58,545 --> 00:49:00,011
Mr. Billy!

683
00:49:00,312 --> 00:49:03,212
Mr. Billy, Mr. Melvill's here.

684
00:49:03,220 --> 00:49:06,455
- Melvill! But I didn't expect him.
- I'll wait here

685
00:49:11,684 --> 00:49:15,400
Mr. Smith, ask Mr. Dundas to join us, will you?
You can find him at Lord Auckland's, I think.

686
00:49:15,495 --> 00:49:17,300
- Dundas is already in there, Master Billy.
- Oh, good.

687
00:49:17,323 --> 00:49:19,300
- A man has called from the landscape garden.
- Yes, what of it?

688
00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:21,907
- It's the third time he's called.
- Oh, pay him, Smith, pay him.

689
00:49:21,933 --> 00:49:24,808
- But it is a considerable sum, I...
- Later, later, Smith, don't blather.

690
00:49:31,372 --> 00:49:34,910
You'd better tell us the worst, Mr. Melvill,
without trimmings, if you please.

691
00:49:35,734 --> 00:49:38,453
In a nutshell, gentlemen,
they've beaten us to it.

692
00:49:38,934 --> 00:49:40,998
- Who?
- The war party.

693
00:49:41,203 --> 00:49:43,205
They've sent General Augereau to Paris.

694
00:49:43,312 --> 00:49:45,743
He's kicked out the moderates and
dissolved the Parliament.

695
00:49:46,750 --> 00:49:48,520
That's not all my news, gentlemen.

696
00:49:48,659 --> 00:49:50,069
There are strong reports in Paris...

697
00:49:50,208 --> 00:49:51,965
that the Austrians have surrendered...

698
00:49:51,995 --> 00:49:55,349
...and signed a peace with General
Bonaparte at Loben.

699
00:49:55,681 --> 00:49:58,596
But perhaps it's only a rumor.

700
00:49:59,188 --> 00:50:03,683
No, the war party would never have acted in
Paris unless their hands had been freed.

701
00:50:04,008 --> 00:50:06,784
With Army men in power like
Duclos, Bonaparte and Augereau,

702
00:50:06,799 --> 00:50:08,432
peace is impossible.

703
00:50:09,490 --> 00:50:10,538
Yes.

704
00:50:11,331 --> 00:50:14,999
War parties don't seize power
in order to discuss peace.

705
00:50:16,933 --> 00:50:18,549
Now we're alone.

706
00:50:22,552 --> 00:50:24,876
Gentlemen, you must leave at once.

707
00:50:26,513 --> 00:50:28,927
Well, I always thought
we'd have to come in in the end.

708
00:50:48,077 --> 00:50:49,681
It's bad news, isn't it?

709
00:51:02,274 --> 00:51:03,941
The peace discussions fail.

710
00:51:04,786 --> 00:51:06,898
The peace discussions fail.

711
00:51:30,101 --> 00:51:32,468
- Billy, may I speak with you for a moment
- Yes of course

712
00:51:34,215 --> 00:51:35,936
I must go against you this evening.

713
00:51:37,084 --> 00:51:38,127
Why?

714
00:51:38,810 --> 00:51:40,675
I can do nothing else.

715
00:51:41,043 --> 00:51:43,000
I believe there is still a hope of peace...

716
00:51:43,025 --> 00:51:45,491
...and while that hope remains,
we should strive for it.

717
00:51:45,887 --> 00:51:47,974
With the war party in power
in France?

718
00:51:48,717 --> 00:51:50,518
With any party in power.

719
00:51:51,255 --> 00:51:53,746
I see, then you intend to
support Charlie Fox?

720
00:51:54,521 --> 00:51:55,566
I must.

721
00:51:56,569 --> 00:51:59,199
All right, if you are convinced,
I won't press you.

722
00:52:00,168 --> 00:52:04,266
- You understand, Billy?
- Yes, I understand.

723
00:52:06,112 --> 00:52:12,192
But even an uneasy truce is
preferable to the evils of war.

724
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,900
I want the trumpet of an angel
to proclaim to the years of suffering...

725
00:52:16,994 --> 00:52:19,637
that it has become their
universal interest...

726
00:52:19,697 --> 00:52:25,758
...as well as their moral duty
to have a period of peace.

727
00:52:25,890 --> 00:52:30,121
I challenge the Minister to
define in one sentence, if he can,

728
00:52:30,207 --> 00:52:32,638
the real aim and object of this war.

729
00:52:32,838 --> 00:52:37,150
And why he still urges us to
lavish our money and our blood...

730
00:52:37,323 --> 00:52:38,670
...in it's support!

731
00:52:40,547 --> 00:52:44,432
The French are sick of the
war and so are we.

732
00:52:44,532 --> 00:52:48,700
A new party is in power in
France and here and now I say...

733
00:52:48,881 --> 00:52:51,739
...let us meet them with
reasonable overtures,

734
00:52:51,839 --> 00:52:56,461
and moderation will achieve more
than the most strenuous resistance.

735
00:52:56,724 --> 00:53:00,054
For if this war is to continue
any length of time,

736
00:53:00,274 --> 00:53:04,996
God knows what the dreadful
consequences may be.

737
00:53:09,013 --> 00:53:11,761
The Right Honorable Gentleman opposite...

738
00:53:11,865 --> 00:53:19,700
defies me to state in one sentence
what is the object of this war.

739
00:53:21,183 --> 00:53:27,600
I know not if I can do it in one sentence,
but in one word I can tell him...

740
00:53:27,824 --> 00:53:33,221
that it is security!
Security against a danger.

741
00:53:33,482 --> 00:53:36,759
The greatest that ever threatened
the world.

742
00:53:36,862 --> 00:53:42,757
It is security against a danger which
in degree and extent was never equaled.

743
00:53:43,894 --> 00:53:48,966
A danger which threatens all
the nations of the earth.

744
00:53:49,992 --> 00:53:54,550
Now we face that danger alone.

745
00:53:55,056 --> 00:53:58,507
But we shall meet it undaunted.

746
00:53:58,851 --> 00:54:02,678
Determined to stand or fall...

747
00:54:02,724 --> 00:54:07,092
by the Laws, liberties and religion...

748
00:54:08,124 --> 00:54:09,926
...of our country.

749
00:54:19,207 --> 00:54:20,332
William.

750
00:54:20,938 --> 00:54:23,884
We've talked over our differences
before, why not now?

751
00:54:23,900 --> 00:54:24,900
Why not indeed.

752
00:54:24,933 --> 00:54:27,600
Well, I want you to know that
I respect your convictions.

753
00:54:27,742 --> 00:54:30,200
Even though you had to speak
and vote against me.

754
00:54:30,562 --> 00:54:32,388
You are wrong, William, I'm not sure.

755
00:54:32,807 --> 00:54:34,590
I didn't vote either way.

756
00:54:59,588 --> 00:55:01,148
If I may consider where you are.

757
00:55:01,251 --> 00:55:02,965
Number 10 they said and Number 10 it is.

758
00:55:02,985 --> 00:55:04,413
But you can't possibly...

759
00:55:05,772 --> 00:55:07,600
Very well, come with me, please.

760
00:55:07,622 --> 00:55:09,306
Evans, what is it?

761
00:55:09,336 --> 00:55:11,900
- There's nothing, Mr. Pitt, I'll expl...
- What is it, Evans?

762
00:55:12,010 --> 00:55:15,286
There are two bailiffs, Sir, saying
they are here to levy an execution.

763
00:55:16,461 --> 00:55:17,510
Bailiffs?

764
00:55:19,190 --> 00:55:21,615
- Levy an execution?
- Yes, Sir.

765
00:55:21,783 --> 00:55:25,482
They are suing you for a personal
debt, a very considerable amount, Sir.

766
00:55:26,238 --> 00:55:29,623
- There must be some mistake.
- No, Sir, I fear there is no mistake.

767
00:55:31,736 --> 00:55:33,603
Evans will attend to the matter, Sir.

768
00:55:35,362 --> 00:55:36,606
Thank you, Evans.

769
00:55:41,168 --> 00:55:42,937
You'd better come up to, Mr. Smith.

770
00:55:56,936 --> 00:55:58,339
What is it all about, William?

771
00:55:58,721 --> 00:55:59,767
God knows.

772
00:56:09,661 --> 00:56:10,703
Mr. Smith.

773
00:56:11,976 --> 00:56:13,576
How on earth did this happen?

774
00:56:13,845 --> 00:56:16,812
I'm afraid Mr. Pitt has allowed
his accounts to accumulate.

775
00:56:17,170 --> 00:56:19,982
Yes, I believe Smith has mentioned it...

776
00:56:20,908 --> 00:56:22,062
...once or twice.

777
00:56:34,921 --> 00:56:36,868
- May I?
- Please.

778
00:56:43,813 --> 00:56:46,000
Excuse me Sir, the Duke of Witcham,
my Lord Spencer...

779
00:56:46,024 --> 00:56:48,900
...and Grenville and Mr. Dundas
wish urgently to see you.

780
00:56:49,332 --> 00:56:50,542
Show them in.

781
00:56:52,684 --> 00:56:55,888
William, this is worse than I thought.

782
00:56:57,232 --> 00:56:59,269
You are very deeply in debt.

783
00:56:59,289 --> 00:57:02,198
Your bills alone amount
to a small fortune.

784
00:57:02,364 --> 00:57:04,300
And you've lent a great deal of money
to your brother and cousins...

785
00:57:04,336 --> 00:57:06,561
...which they've not paid back.

786
00:57:06,761 --> 00:57:08,146
It's very serious.

787
00:57:08,211 --> 00:57:11,400
- How serious?
- Over 30.000.

788
00:57:13,182 --> 00:57:15,697
Over 30,000?

789
00:57:16,027 --> 00:57:17,711
How on earth did it happen?

790
00:57:19,945 --> 00:57:21,089
I suppose I...

791
00:57:21,566 --> 00:57:23,032
...I had other things to think about.

792
00:57:31,433 --> 00:57:32,745
Read this, William.

793
00:57:47,044 --> 00:57:50,845
Good night, Smith.
Good night, Nanny.

794
00:57:55,452 --> 00:57:57,755
General Augereau today proclaimed...

795
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,746
that in overthrowing the moderate
government...

796
00:57:59,766 --> 00:58:03,242
...he was acting as the agent of
citizen General Bonaparte,

797
00:58:03,747 --> 00:58:08,092
who is now named as Commander-
in-Chief of the French armies.

798
00:58:09,784 --> 00:58:13,600
Napoleon Bonaparte thus assumes
complete naval, military and civil power...

799
00:58:13,625 --> 00:58:16,672
...over the entire French Empire.

800
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,398
So you were right.

801
00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:22,000
You call a copper. Why, after all
the fellow's barely 30.

802
00:58:22,022 --> 00:58:24,134
Caesar and Alexander were no older.

803
00:58:24,177 --> 00:58:25,603
But the man's an upstart

804
00:58:25,638 --> 00:58:29,361
Conquerors are invariably upstarts, and
Bonaparte has conquered a continent.

805
00:58:29,496 --> 00:58:31,999
But Mr. Pitt, are you sure
he won't split France?

806
00:58:32,257 --> 00:58:35,351
Nations are never split by victories,
Spencer, only by defeats.

807
00:58:35,408 --> 00:58:38,057
Bonaparte will unite
France as never before.

808
00:58:38,068 --> 00:58:40,880
The people of this country are shouting for
peace. They must be made to see the truth.

809
00:58:40,900 --> 00:58:42,980
Grenville, you will please call
a cabinet meeting for tonight.

810
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:44,180
Tonight is very short notice, I...

811
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:48,519
My Lord Duke, we cannot hope to awaken the people
to its peril unless we ourselves are alive to it!

812
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:52,120
The time for half measures and half-hearted
complacencies is past!

813
00:58:52,127 --> 00:58:53,859
From now on we must realize...

814
00:58:53,879 --> 00:58:57,217
we are fighting a nation of armed
fanatics led by an arch-fanatic!

815
00:58:57,682 --> 00:59:00,679
We must work together with a
single mind and single purpose.

816
00:59:00,785 --> 00:59:05,421
We must put aside all personal affairs
renounce leisure, family, even sleep!

817
00:59:05,441 --> 00:59:08,342
To this one imperative duty.

818
00:59:08,860 --> 00:59:12,820
I warn you, Bonaparte
will not count the costs.

819
00:59:13,189 --> 00:59:17,352
He'll climb over a million corpses
to attain his ambition.

820
00:59:17,372 --> 00:59:19,601
We must break him!

821
00:59:20,479 --> 00:59:23,233
Or he will break us.

822
00:59:24,894 --> 00:59:27,792
That is all, gentlemen.

823
00:59:38,169 --> 00:59:42,600
- Your own affairs?
- Do they matter now? No one depends on me.

824
00:59:42,859 --> 00:59:46,797
But William, you have your own
happiness to consider.

825
00:59:46,862 --> 00:59:49,700
We have the future of this
country to consider.

826
00:59:49,745 --> 00:59:54,577
Don't make any decisions
you might later regret.

827
01:00:10,727 --> 01:00:13,357
- Mr. Pitt, are you all right?
- Perfectly.

828
01:00:13,455 --> 01:00:15,700
Leave it alone, Smith, it will probably
be favoured again before morning.

829
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,701
- Goodness, I'll give them...
- You do nothing of the sort, Mrs. Sparry.

830
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:20,400
Go to bed, go to bed!

831
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:23,723
Smith.

832
01:00:26,926 --> 01:00:29,233
I have to write a very important letter.

833
01:00:29,668 --> 01:00:31,416
Will you please arrange...

834
01:00:32,041 --> 01:00:35,100
Will you please arrange to have it
delivered without a moment's delay?

835
01:00:35,137 --> 01:00:37,300
- I'll ring when it's done.
- Yes, Sir.

836
01:00:45,456 --> 01:00:47,736
But now as much for your sake
as my own,

837
01:00:47,766 --> 01:00:51,700
I'm compelled to say that I find
the obstacles insurmountable.

838
01:00:52,547 --> 01:00:55,650
Believe me, I have not lightly
sacrified my best hopes.

839
01:00:55,770 --> 01:00:59,701
Whoever may be fortunate
enough to be united to you...

840
01:00:59,731 --> 01:01:03,632
will be blessed into more than his
full share of human happiness.

841
01:01:04,223 --> 01:01:05,703
Sacrificed...

842
01:01:06,101 --> 01:01:07,574
But why, Father?

843
01:01:07,667 --> 01:01:09,400
Why?

844
01:01:09,456 --> 01:01:11,021
Only he can answer that my child.

845
01:01:11,221 --> 01:01:15,511
Today he goes to Walmer.
Perhaps he'll call.

846
01:01:25,062 --> 01:01:27,802
My dear Wilberforce, send
this by private messenger.

847
01:01:28,050 --> 01:01:33,227
May I offer you and my other
loyal friends my heartfelt thanks...

848
01:01:33,527 --> 01:01:34,588
for the generous manner...

849
01:01:34,599 --> 01:01:41,473
...in which you and they have relieved my
anxieties by settling my personal debts.

850
01:02:09,625 --> 01:02:11,449
Or are we deceiving ourselves?

851
01:02:12,248 --> 01:02:14,456
Barker!
I told you not to stop.

852
01:02:15,055 --> 01:02:17,669
I beg you pardon, Sir,
I wasn't thinking.

853
01:02:38,284 --> 01:02:39,360
What was I saying, Smith?

854
01:02:39,470 --> 01:02:41,716
Or are we deceiving ourselves?

855
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:55,000
Bonaparte's amassing ships at Toulon
simply as a blind.

856
01:02:55,199 --> 01:02:57,443
He's in a position to keep us guessing.

857
01:02:57,530 --> 01:02:58,825
We can only wait and see

858
01:02:58,925 --> 01:03:01,800
And win the war by a display
a masterly inactivity.

859
01:03:02,155 --> 01:03:05,300
Gentlemen, let us create events,
not bow down to them.

860
01:03:05,482 --> 01:03:07,748
Here we watch Bonaparte's
front door...

861
01:03:07,855 --> 01:03:09,800
...while there he prepares some
mischief at the back.

862
01:03:09,932 --> 01:03:12,937
He thinks to pin us down behind
our defenses if we submit to it.

863
01:03:12,970 --> 01:03:16,000
- We shall not submit to it.
- But how can we do otherwise?

864
01:03:16,119 --> 01:03:20,700
By passing to the offensive, by sending
a naval force to close that back door.

865
01:03:20,858 --> 01:03:23,700
But that will leave us
open to attack at home?

866
01:03:23,878 --> 01:03:27,400
That is how Bonaparte hopes we shall
argue, but we shall not be so obliging.

867
01:03:27,439 --> 01:03:30,100
He thinks we would not dare,
half-armed and alone,

868
01:03:30,134 --> 01:03:32,354
with himself in control of
all the ports from the Scheldt to Spain,

869
01:03:32,384 --> 01:03:35,555
we would never dare to send the naval
squadron from Britain to the Mediterranean,

870
01:03:35,579 --> 01:03:39,500
so he's turned his eyes to the Mediterranean
towards Malta, Sicily, Egypt and India.

871
01:03:39,559 --> 01:03:43,093
Gentlemen, with all that at stake, is
this the time to stay at home?

872
01:03:43,175 --> 01:03:46,200
I am with you, but we've sat on
our backsides long enough.

873
01:03:46,300 --> 01:03:48,492
It's a fearful risk.

874
01:03:48,503 --> 01:03:51,069
My dear Addington, when we are taking
as many risks as Bonaparte,

875
01:03:51,156 --> 01:03:52,618
I shall begin to feel a little safer.

876
01:03:52,729 --> 01:03:55,290
Yes, but we've no command of
the Mediterranean.

877
01:03:55,300 --> 01:03:57,187
A bold leader would succeed
in getting it.

878
01:03:57,274 --> 01:03:59,807
All our best officers are
occupied elsewhere.

879
01:03:59,963 --> 01:04:03,754
The man we choose must have
one object.

880
01:04:03,827 --> 01:04:06,409
To intercept and destroy the enemy.

881
01:04:06,546 --> 01:04:08,982
He must be capable of
making great decisions.

882
01:04:09,289 --> 01:04:11,400
And having made them
he must not fail.

883
01:04:12,101 --> 01:04:15,140
- For if he fails...
- Yes, but...

884
01:04:15,191 --> 01:04:16,551
But where could you find
such a man?

885
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:19,793
Gentlemen.

886
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,877
Here are the announcements for
the forthcoming week.

887
01:04:26,462 --> 01:04:30,115
Before reading them I have
been asked to read this.

888
01:04:30,674 --> 01:04:35,204
A naval officer here present
wishes to render thanks...

889
01:04:35,304 --> 01:04:40,809
...to Almighty God for granting him
complete recovery from a severe wound,

890
01:04:40,957 --> 01:04:45,017
and for the many blessings
bestowed upon him.

891
01:04:45,704 --> 01:04:50,000
At eight o'clock each morning we
will celebrate Holy Communion.

892
01:04:50,376 --> 01:04:52,900
Nelson, Mr. Pitt?
Rear Admiral Nelson?

893
01:04:52,927 --> 01:04:54,759
- Surely you can't be serious.
- Why not?

894
01:04:54,834 --> 01:04:57,900
- There's such a thing as seniority, Mr. Pitt.
- I'm more interested in merit, Sir.

895
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:00,195
But Sir William Parker and St. John
are men of great merits.

896
01:05:00,225 --> 01:05:01,225
And senior.

897
01:05:01,322 --> 01:05:04,600
- Malcolm is the man, Mr. Pitt.
- Nelson is comparatively untried.

898
01:05:04,636 --> 01:05:05,440
In fact, nothing been said for him...

899
01:05:05,460 --> 01:05:07,880
...but brilliant achievement and
still more brilliant promise.

900
01:05:07,923 --> 01:05:11,152
He's been fortunate, Sir. His methods
have at times been sadly unorthodox.

901
01:05:11,172 --> 01:05:13,800
It's true that when Nelson took
the San Josef at St. Vincent...

902
01:05:13,837 --> 01:05:17,196
he forgot to conform to Naval Tactics,
that's one reason why he appeals to me.

903
01:05:17,216 --> 01:05:18,800
My Lords, that is all.

904
01:05:21,065 --> 01:05:23,173
Do I understand you will appoint Nelson?

905
01:05:24,046 --> 01:05:25,588
He is already appointed.

906
01:05:25,926 --> 01:05:29,100
He will sail on the Vanguard with
the first favorable wind.

907
01:05:29,295 --> 01:05:30,958
Sir John and Sir William,
won't like it, you know.

908
01:05:31,062 --> 01:05:33,360
We must hope to survive
their displeasure.

909
01:05:57,278 --> 01:06:00,696
They'll be after Nelson like a pack
of hounds if he is bested by the French.

910
01:06:00,756 --> 01:06:02,624
And after me, My Lord.

911
01:06:02,972 --> 01:06:04,417
Sir Horatio Nelson.

912
01:06:22,538 --> 01:06:26,003
Past midnight in fine clear morning.

913
01:06:26,955 --> 01:06:29,683
Past 12 o'clock in a fine clear morning.

914
01:06:35,865 --> 01:06:39,231
No, it's not the first Lord of the Admiralty,
it's only me. Come in, Mr. Bellamy.

915
01:06:39,251 --> 01:06:40,950
- Good evening, Sir.
- Good Evening, Mr. Bellamy.

916
01:06:40,982 --> 01:06:42,999
Put the tray on the desk.
Come along now.

917
01:06:43,150 --> 01:06:44,193
Come along.

918
01:06:44,299 --> 01:06:46,727
Master Billy you won't just go
and leave it now, will you?

919
01:06:46,830 --> 01:06:49,749
Nanny, have I ever been known to
leave a veal pie? Ask Mr. Bellamy.

920
01:06:49,769 --> 01:06:54,300
My pies are to Mr. Pitt what frogs
are to Monsieur Bonaparte.

921
01:06:54,572 --> 01:06:56,972
- Good night.
- Good Night, Bellamy.

922
01:06:58,897 --> 01:07:01,600
Nanny, will you ask Mr. Smith
to come up here, please?

923
01:07:01,795 --> 01:07:03,126
In a moment.

924
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,648
That's right. Starving yourself to death
won't help to win the war.

925
01:07:19,007 --> 01:07:20,200
The First Lord.

926
01:07:26,821 --> 01:07:30,700
Bonaparte has sailed from Toulon.
Nelson has missed him.

927
01:07:37,681 --> 01:07:38,978
You are certain?

928
01:07:38,999 --> 01:07:42,571
Bonaparte left with large military
forces and a powerful fleet.

929
01:07:44,632 --> 01:07:45,678
For where?

930
01:07:46,005 --> 01:07:47,052
We don't know.

931
01:07:48,806 --> 01:07:50,539
How did it happen?

932
01:07:50,643 --> 01:07:53,418
A gale dispersed our ships and
damaged the Vanguard.

933
01:07:53,996 --> 01:07:56,052
The French saw their chance
and took it.

934
01:07:56,936 --> 01:07:57,979
And Nelson?

935
01:07:58,137 --> 01:08:00,400
He's made his repairs and
gone and search of them.

936
01:08:00,841 --> 01:08:02,999
He has the whole Mediterranean
to comb.

937
01:08:08,391 --> 01:08:09,994
Do you think we were wrong?

938
01:08:10,133 --> 01:08:12,475
- Hm?
- Do you think we were wrong?

939
01:08:12,781 --> 01:08:14,679
- No.
- Neither do I.

940
01:08:16,678 --> 01:08:20,500
I suppose you'd better get to bed and get
some rest, there's nothing else you can do.

941
01:08:22,621 --> 01:08:24,843
I wish you'd take same advice for once.

942
01:08:29,593 --> 01:08:31,588
- Good night.
- Good night.

943
01:08:45,706 --> 01:08:48,480
- Is Mr. Pitt up yet?
- Hasn't even touched it.

944
01:08:48,500 --> 01:08:51,200
No, I heard him go to bed 3:30,
it must have been,

945
01:08:51,236 --> 01:08:53,014
so I thought I'd better let
him sleep on.

946
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,148
And I'd be obliged if you'd
do the same.

947
01:08:55,168 --> 01:08:56,553
I'll just see if he's awake.

948
01:09:07,227 --> 01:09:08,670
Mr. Pitt!

949
01:09:11,165 --> 01:09:12,400
Mrs. Sparry!

950
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,201
Well?

951
01:09:21,200 --> 01:09:22,878
Come, come on, what is it?

952
01:09:27,534 --> 01:09:31,651
We've lately been seeing engines which
do much of the work that man used to do.

953
01:09:31,761 --> 01:09:34,204
But if they get worn out,
they can be replaced.

954
01:09:34,606 --> 01:09:36,307
You were never strong, you know.

955
01:09:36,347 --> 01:09:38,203
Is my life in danger?

956
01:09:38,814 --> 01:09:42,700
- Today all our lives are in danger.
- Come on, come on, tell me the truth.

957
01:09:43,506 --> 01:09:45,250
You mean give you my opinion?

958
01:09:45,436 --> 01:09:49,400
We doctors are not so confoundedly familiar
with the truth as you politicians.

959
01:09:49,632 --> 01:09:52,383
- Too much respect for it.
- Come on, tell me.

960
01:09:55,630 --> 01:09:57,451
If you take yourself in hand,

961
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:03,203
if above all you free yourself from all
responsibility, you'll be all right.

962
01:10:05,204 --> 01:10:06,604
Hey!

963
01:10:07,657 --> 01:10:09,479
What if I don't?

964
01:10:10,126 --> 01:10:11,630
Then, before long,

965
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,566
I shall lose a very good friend.

966
01:10:15,867 --> 01:10:17,407
Oh.

967
01:10:18,597 --> 01:10:19,741
I see.

968
01:10:22,036 --> 01:10:25,443
- Well, we'd better have some port, hadn't we?
- No more port, Billy.

969
01:10:25,844 --> 01:10:27,153
No more port?

970
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:31,042
God, it is serious, isn't it?

971
01:10:33,292 --> 01:10:34,345
Well, I...

972
01:10:34,909 --> 01:10:36,571
I've warned you.

973
01:10:41,746 --> 01:10:43,641
Walter!

974
01:10:46,141 --> 01:10:48,984
I think we'll keep this
to ourselves, hm?

975
01:11:02,921 --> 01:11:04,371
Smith.

976
01:11:10,562 --> 01:11:12,446
- Sir?
- Any news?

977
01:11:15,009 --> 01:11:17,801
Out with it, never mind what
Sir Walter told you, what is it?

978
01:11:17,831 --> 01:11:20,479
Bonaparte has landed in Egypt.

979
01:11:20,641 --> 01:11:22,429
And no news of Nelson.

980
01:11:32,911 --> 01:11:37,061
I do not see the Prime Minister
in his accustomed bliss.

981
01:11:37,099 --> 01:11:41,513
Perhaps he finds discretion
the better part of valor.

982
01:11:41,685 --> 01:11:47,654
Bonaparte is now in Egypt and will
soon no doubt turn towards India.

983
01:11:47,808 --> 01:11:49,400
How did this happen?

984
01:11:49,458 --> 01:11:52,670
The author of this country's ruin
is not here to tell us.

985
01:11:53,618 --> 01:11:58,934
Although he himself pressed the appointment
of a relatively junior officer...

986
01:11:58,999 --> 01:12:02,643
...against wiser counsels of
the Lords Commissioners.

987
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:06,452
And to this officer he entrusted forces...

988
01:12:06,482 --> 01:12:09,727
...which were in any event
inadequate to the task.

989
01:12:10,519 --> 01:12:15,871
Is it to be wondered at, that Bonaparte
was able to outwit that commander?

990
01:12:16,546 --> 01:12:19,334
I must apologize to the Prime Minister.

991
01:12:19,374 --> 01:12:25,039
I congratulate him on finding, after all,
valor the better part of discretion.

992
01:12:26,249 --> 01:12:31,040
I have been in opposition
now nearly 14 years.

993
01:12:31,100 --> 01:12:36,410
I have brought almost forty
fruitless motions for peace.

994
01:12:36,561 --> 01:12:43,291
Again and again I have told myself
it is so bad it cannot get worse.

995
01:12:43,358 --> 01:12:46,383
And each time I was wrong.

996
01:12:46,934 --> 01:12:49,626
But now I solemnly tell you...

997
01:12:49,666 --> 01:12:54,916
...that if this government,
that minister remain in power,

998
01:12:55,528 --> 01:13:00,105
there are no depths we
shall not have to plumb.

999
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:23,064
Mr. Pitt.

1000
01:13:39,446 --> 01:13:43,700
Sirs, this message has just been
handed to me.

1001
01:13:44,391 --> 01:13:46,570
Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson,

1002
01:13:46,590 --> 01:13:49,800
commanding Mediterranean
squadron, reports...

1003
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:53,254
that the French fleet was sighted
at anchor in Aboukir Bay...

1004
01:13:53,300 --> 01:13:57,500
...off the mouth of the Nile
on the 1st of August.

1005
01:13:58,540 --> 01:14:01,800
We engaged the enemy at half
past five in the evening.

1006
01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,904
The battle continued through
the hours of darkness.

1007
01:14:05,599 --> 01:14:12,800
At a quarter to ten the enemy flagship
the Orient blew up, became a total loss.

1008
01:14:13,384 --> 01:14:16,980
By dawn the enemy had
been decisively defeated.

1009
01:14:17,189 --> 01:14:23,248
According to the last information only
two French sail the line escaped.

1010
01:14:47,361 --> 01:14:50,368
All right, all right, Smith.
Thank you.

1011
01:14:52,703 --> 01:14:55,200
Smith, I'm going to bed.
Good night.

1012
01:14:55,531 --> 01:15:00,400
Oh, Smith, Smith, I intend to sleep for
at least two days. God Bless, good night.

1013
01:15:23,688 --> 01:15:25,495
Oh, what's that?

1014
01:15:26,253 --> 01:15:28,851
That, my dear, is life.

1015
01:15:32,088 --> 01:15:35,528
Frustrated in the East, Napoleon
turns again to Europe.

1016
01:15:35,779 --> 01:15:39,352
Once more the war-weary armies roll
back before the might of Bonaparte.

1017
01:15:39,494 --> 01:15:42,860
The British alone stand unscathed
behind their Island ramparts,

1018
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:47,104
but as time passes they
too weary of the war.

1019
01:15:48,533 --> 01:15:51,874
Bonaparte, First Consul of the
French Republic,

1020
01:15:52,877 --> 01:15:55,516
to His Majesty the King of
Great Britain and Ireland.

1021
01:15:56,901 --> 01:15:59,991
Paris, Christmas Day, 1799.

1022
01:16:01,914 --> 01:16:03,500
Your Majesty,

1023
01:16:04,075 --> 01:16:08,573
Must this war that has
ravaged Europe for five years...

1024
01:16:09,007 --> 01:16:10,452
...be eternal?

1025
01:16:11,128 --> 01:16:13,911
Are there no means of
coming to an understanding?

1026
01:16:14,491 --> 01:16:15,623
What is it, Talleyrand?

1027
01:16:15,727 --> 01:16:18,700
I wish I could share your
confidence in this proposal, Sir.

1028
01:16:19,149 --> 01:16:22,076
If it divides opinion in
Britain, its object is achieved.

1029
01:16:22,099 --> 01:16:23,600
And Mr. Pitt?

1030
01:16:23,868 --> 01:16:27,700
When three quarters of the nation are
shouting for peace, he must resign.

1031
01:16:27,739 --> 01:16:29,600
They have shouted before,
but he's stayed.

1032
01:16:29,740 --> 01:16:31,800
This time he will bow before
the storm.

1033
01:16:31,839 --> 01:16:34,029
But how can you tell if there
will be a storm?

1034
01:16:34,089 --> 01:16:37,331
In Britain it snows in the summer,
the people are just as unreliable.

1035
01:16:37,445 --> 01:16:40,237
You judge the British, Talleyrand,
by the reactions of the French.

1036
01:16:40,685 --> 01:16:46,400
I tell you, the British are a stupid, illogical
race led by a second rate politician.

1037
01:16:47,009 --> 01:16:49,312
If he was a general, he would
know when he was defeated.

1038
01:16:49,765 --> 01:16:51,940
But since he doesn't, I shall
fight him his own weapon.

1039
01:16:52,042 --> 01:16:53,933
And will allow him to choose them, Sir?

1040
01:16:55,182 --> 01:16:59,794
In military science, Talleyrand, there is
something more important than weapons.

1041
01:17:00,384 --> 01:17:01,893
More important than men.

1042
01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:04,503
Time.

1043
01:17:05,046 --> 01:17:07,555
A short peace will give me that time.

1044
01:17:07,774 --> 01:17:12,946
Once I have built a fleet large enough to
smash them at sea, the rest will follow.

1045
01:17:14,729 --> 01:17:16,999
Must the two most enlightened
nations on earth...

1046
01:17:17,428 --> 01:17:22,309
...sacrifice for vain ambitions
the glories of peace?

1047
01:17:23,515 --> 01:17:25,401
Is the Prime Minister aware...

1048
01:17:25,421 --> 01:17:28,267
that His Majesty has received
the most cordial offer of peace...

1049
01:17:28,287 --> 01:17:33,900
...from the French First Consul and, if so,
will he advise His Majesty to accept it?

1050
01:17:34,737 --> 01:17:38,710
The answer to the first part
of that question is yes, the second no.

1051
01:17:40,188 --> 01:17:42,810
Does the minister consider it justifiable...

1052
01:17:42,830 --> 01:17:47,662
...to reject an appeal by the most
elevated person in the French Republic?

1053
01:17:47,839 --> 01:17:49,080
I do.

1054
01:17:49,264 --> 01:17:51,000
Why must the Prime Minister assume...

1055
01:17:51,048 --> 01:17:54,104
...that Bonaparte is not sincere
in his desire for peace?

1056
01:17:54,585 --> 01:17:59,561
It is not a question whether he wants
peace, but what he wants peace for.

1057
01:18:03,787 --> 01:18:07,999
May I give notice, Sir, of my intention to
bring another motion for peace?

1058
01:18:08,100 --> 01:18:10,200
My 44th, I think it will be.

1059
01:18:10,241 --> 01:18:12,706
Back to the old wrangling, Harry.

1060
01:18:12,818 --> 01:18:16,042
But it really is time we put
the matter again to debate.

1061
01:18:17,239 --> 01:18:18,923
How is your gout today, Sir?

1062
01:18:19,626 --> 01:18:24,221
In this matter I am convinced
that I represent public opinion.

1063
01:18:24,302 --> 01:18:27,591
And that public opinion is for
peace now.

1064
01:18:27,700 --> 01:18:32,928
And that sooner or later public
opinion will force you into signing it.

1065
01:18:33,018 --> 01:18:35,843
The trouble with Mr. Pitt is
he's been at war so long now...

1066
01:18:35,955 --> 01:18:37,549
...he doesn't know peace when
he sees it.

1067
01:18:37,569 --> 01:18:40,000
He thinks this is a private war
between him and Boney.

1068
01:18:40,033 --> 01:18:43,082
But the French need peace as much
as we do. What harm can it do?

1069
01:18:43,099 --> 01:18:45,600
It's like a boxer leaving the ring
and letting himself get out of condition.

1070
01:18:45,644 --> 01:18:47,555
He doesn't fight as well when
he comes back.

1071
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:50,100
- You won't find Boney going out of training.
- I can't see that.

1072
01:18:50,133 --> 01:18:51,817
Tense down five.

1073
01:18:57,818 --> 01:19:00,558
England wants peace!
England wants peace!

1074
01:19:01,359 --> 01:19:03,559
- England wants peace!
- We want peace for England!

1075
01:19:03,647 --> 01:19:05,684
Why don't you make peace
now you got your chance?

1076
01:19:05,719 --> 01:19:08,458
Or get out and make way
for a man who will!

1077
01:19:16,374 --> 01:19:20,242
I'm afraid he's absolutely convinced.
Nothing can change his mind now.

1078
01:19:20,254 --> 01:19:22,600
But nobody knows anything of his reasons.

1079
01:19:22,763 --> 01:19:24,657
He's certain to be misunderstood.

1080
01:19:30,248 --> 01:19:32,600
- Hello, Evans.
- Hello, Billy.

1081
01:19:38,765 --> 01:19:40,407
I saw the King.

1082
01:19:40,654 --> 01:19:43,979
I advocated a new policy
but made no headway.

1083
01:19:46,174 --> 01:19:49,195
It was rather like trying to blow
porridge through a blanket.

1084
01:19:49,256 --> 01:19:52,350
- If you go, Addington will take your place.
- God preserve us.

1085
01:19:52,383 --> 01:19:54,800
There is only one course
left to me, I must resign.

1086
01:19:54,910 --> 01:19:56,765
You are bound to be misunderstood.

1087
01:19:57,058 --> 01:19:59,416
The Prime Minister is the servant
of public opinion...

1088
01:19:59,456 --> 01:20:03,614
...and I've lost the confidence of the public.
I've also lost the confidence of the King.

1089
01:20:03,634 --> 01:20:07,558
Besides, I can tell you this now
if you didn't know it before.

1090
01:20:08,026 --> 01:20:12,420
I'm not well, and Britain must not
be governed by a sick man.

1091
01:20:12,500 --> 01:20:14,709
But William, it's still not too late.

1092
01:20:15,034 --> 01:20:16,581
It is too late.

1093
01:20:18,072 --> 01:20:19,900
I've just come from the King.

1094
01:20:20,805 --> 01:20:23,025
I offered His Majesty my resignation.

1095
01:20:24,146 --> 01:20:25,997
He saw fit to accept it.

1096
01:20:46,104 --> 01:20:47,584
Barker is here with the carriage, Sir.

1097
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,576
Yes, I heard him.
Has Mrs. Sparry left?

1098
01:20:50,596 --> 01:20:52,500
Yes, she will have Walmer
ready for you by tomorrow.

1099
01:20:52,521 --> 01:20:54,121
Good. Oh...

1100
01:20:54,222 --> 01:20:57,258
- You'd better take the...
- Yes, these came for you.

1101
01:20:58,843 --> 01:21:00,487
And Smith...

1102
01:21:01,005 --> 01:21:03,642
I cannot possibly thank you adequately.

1103
01:21:03,827 --> 01:21:06,800
I'm deeply, deeply grateful.

1104
01:21:23,299 --> 01:21:26,616
You know, Smith, that here and there
I fancy I see a familiar face?

1105
01:21:27,003 --> 01:21:28,446
You I know.

1106
01:21:28,674 --> 01:21:30,021
And you.

1107
01:21:30,362 --> 01:21:33,400
And I think I know my valet.
Hey, Hargreaves.

1108
01:21:34,353 --> 01:21:38,400
- But who for instance are you?
- Augustus Pontifex, Sir.

1109
01:21:38,437 --> 01:21:39,437
What do you do?

1110
01:21:39,471 --> 01:21:42,469
I attend to the personal requirements
of Mr. Hargreaves, Sir.

1111
01:21:42,651 --> 01:21:45,332
- And you?
- Millicent Gray, if you please, Sir.

1112
01:21:45,461 --> 01:21:48,806
- And what are your duties?
- I look after Mr. Pontifex, Sir.

1113
01:21:50,989 --> 01:21:52,999
Lucky Mr. Pontifex.

1114
01:21:55,692 --> 01:21:58,380
- And who is this?
- I'm Basset, Sir.

1115
01:21:58,473 --> 01:22:00,532
I take it you've been here
for some time, Basset.

1116
01:22:00,746 --> 01:22:02,499
I remember your father, Sir.

1117
01:22:02,689 --> 01:22:04,387
So do I.

1118
01:22:04,647 --> 01:22:08,386
- What do you do, Basset?
- I'm the odd man, Sir.

1119
01:22:08,466 --> 01:22:12,838
Oh, no, Basset. I've been the
odd man in this house.

1120
01:22:13,292 --> 01:22:16,100
- Good bye.
- Thank you, Sir.

1121
01:22:17,957 --> 01:22:20,822
I want to thank you all for
your help...

1122
01:22:21,154 --> 01:22:24,370
...during the very long time
that I've been here.

1123
01:22:25,008 --> 01:22:27,413
Thank you very much, indeed,
all of you.

1124
01:22:28,310 --> 01:22:30,769
Goodbye, goodbye all.

1125
01:22:44,008 --> 01:22:45,999
Lovely day, isn't it?

1126
01:23:28,927 --> 01:23:30,669
Good morning Mr. Addington.

1127
01:23:31,609 --> 01:23:32,656
Good morning.

1128
01:23:47,259 --> 01:23:48,303
Is that all?

1129
01:23:48,559 --> 01:23:50,101
There's just one thing more, Sir.

1130
01:23:50,131 --> 01:23:51,239
Yes, what is it?

1131
01:23:51,339 --> 01:23:53,422
The peace treaty with Britain
signed this morning.

1132
01:23:53,801 --> 01:23:54,851
Good.

1133
01:23:56,464 --> 01:23:58,644
Why didn't you show it to me before?

1134
01:23:58,744 --> 01:24:02,609
Because if I had, Sir, you wouldn't
have done any work this morning.

1135
01:24:05,890 --> 01:24:08,389
That's a fine way to celebrate
the peace.

1136
01:24:08,552 --> 01:24:11,267
It's makes twice as much noise
as any war.

1137
01:24:13,810 --> 01:24:17,343
Here's your medicine, Master Billy.
Drink it up now.

1138
01:24:18,379 --> 01:24:20,716
Come now, there's a good boy.

1139
01:24:23,736 --> 01:24:25,279
Nanny.

1140
01:24:25,521 --> 01:24:26,766
Nanny.

1141
01:24:27,325 --> 01:24:29,785
I want you to take wine with me.

1142
01:24:30,037 --> 01:24:32,500
No, no, Mr. Billy.
I'm not one for drinking wine.

1143
01:24:32,527 --> 01:24:34,600
- Come along now.
- Especially at this time of night.

1144
01:24:34,641 --> 01:24:37,999
Be a good girl and drink it up
to an enduring peace.

1145
01:24:38,021 --> 01:24:41,300
Oh, all right.
As if it is was likely.

1146
01:24:42,626 --> 01:24:44,631
An enduring peace.

1147
01:24:45,122 --> 01:24:47,196
Some say it's a bad treaty.

1148
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,100
Is it, Mr. Billy?

1149
01:24:50,766 --> 01:24:52,968
Terms might be worse.

1150
01:24:54,901 --> 01:24:57,554
I wish everything works good from it.

1151
01:25:01,221 --> 01:25:03,830
There's a ship going out,
it's all lighted up.

1152
01:25:12,270 --> 01:25:13,808
It's the Channel packet.

1153
01:25:14,162 --> 01:25:16,200
The first in peace time.

1154
01:25:25,522 --> 01:25:28,900
I wonder when we shall be able
to take the Channel packet again.

1155
01:25:30,054 --> 01:25:33,906
In peace time all dreams come true.

1156
01:25:38,044 --> 01:25:39,900
His Majesty's government,

1157
01:25:39,935 --> 01:25:43,700
whilst of course still considering the safety
of this country as the first principle,

1158
01:25:43,755 --> 01:25:49,347
can now see its way to a substantial reduction
in our naval and military expenditure.

1159
01:25:49,387 --> 01:25:51,372
Who knows?

1160
01:25:51,572 --> 01:25:55,300
Perhaps we may now dare to
look forward to a time of tranquility.

1161
01:25:55,437 --> 01:25:59,152
To a spirit of happy harmony
in the future of Europe.

1162
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:04,009
Perhaps we may see along in the
forges of Britain and France...

1163
01:26:04,264 --> 01:26:07,600
...the swords of conflict beaten
into ploughs,

1164
01:26:07,921 --> 01:26:12,995
and so return once again to the peaceful
pursuit of agriculture.

1165
01:26:13,516 --> 01:26:17,700
Now the march of trampling feet
has ceased in France.

1166
01:26:17,924 --> 01:26:20,752
Perhaps we shall see the leaders
of Europe,

1167
01:26:20,862 --> 01:26:27,115
relieved of the chaos of war, making plans
for the future happiness of their people,

1168
01:26:27,410 --> 01:26:30,228
while the soldiers of
Europe are demobilized...

1169
01:26:30,258 --> 01:26:34,219
and sent back to the towns, and villages
and fields...

1170
01:26:34,417 --> 01:26:40,554
...to be united again with their wives and
children in the simple joys of family life.

1171
01:26:40,649 --> 01:26:44,800
Such is the picture I dare
to envisage today.

1172
01:26:45,369 --> 01:26:47,975
I have tried to live on good
terms with England...

1173
01:26:47,999 --> 01:26:50,092
...but I am not a man of infinite
patience!

1174
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:52,274
Are the British tired of peace?

1175
01:26:52,562 --> 01:26:54,265
You are their ambassador,
you should know.

1176
01:26:54,776 --> 01:26:59,773
My Lord, I have now an army of 480.000 men.
I am ready for any enterprise!

1177
01:26:59,894 --> 01:27:03,281
I am ready if need be to lead an
expedition against your island!

1178
01:27:03,309 --> 01:27:04,629
I tell you I do not bluff!

1179
01:27:04,729 --> 01:27:07,690
If England wants war,
then war she shall have!

1180
01:27:08,594 --> 01:27:11,496
I therefore think it's proper
to acquaint the house...

1181
01:27:11,596 --> 01:27:15,120
that the conduct of the French government
has obliged His Majesty...

1182
01:27:15,220 --> 01:27:18,403
...to withdraw his Ambassador
from Paris.

1183
01:27:18,791 --> 01:27:22,875
And the Ambassador of the
French Republic has left London.

1184
01:27:33,619 --> 01:27:40,495
It is ordered tonight we do honor
to our great leader Bonaparte!

1185
01:27:40,934 --> 01:27:46,190
When your flag waves over the
bloodstained shores of the Thames,

1186
01:27:46,220 --> 01:27:53,239
the British will bless you as the
glorious liberator of the English nation!

1187
01:27:55,833 --> 01:27:57,754
And I can assure the Honorable Member...

1188
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:01,197
...that we see no cause for
alarm or undue anxiety.

1189
01:28:01,371 --> 01:28:04,003
Is the minister then satisfied
with the state of our defenses?

1190
01:28:04,157 --> 01:28:06,130
Does he think they are fit
to withstand an invasion?

1191
01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:09,200
Can he deny that whole stretches of
our coastline are open to attack?

1192
01:28:09,652 --> 01:28:11,500
I think that's an exaggeration.

1193
01:28:11,555 --> 01:28:15,999
I may say that the government is earnestly
considering an extension of our defences.

1194
01:28:16,032 --> 01:28:17,400
I don't understand.

1195
01:28:17,533 --> 01:28:21,594
Does the minister propose to defeat
Bonaparte by earnest consideration?

1196
01:28:22,539 --> 01:28:25,900
I must remind the house of the
energetic measures already taken.

1197
01:28:25,980 --> 01:28:29,589
Has the minister considered taking
a still more energetic measure?

1198
01:28:29,619 --> 01:28:32,200
By seeking the advice of Mr. Pitt?

1199
01:28:32,501 --> 01:28:33,801
Has he?

1200
01:28:36,714 --> 01:28:38,200
It's too late anyway.

1201
01:28:38,229 --> 01:28:40,866
The roses have done very badly but
the vegetables are all right.

1202
01:28:40,899 --> 01:28:44,200
The country is still half asleep
but it is not too late to rouse it.

1203
01:28:44,235 --> 01:28:47,800
- They must hear your voice, William.
- They heard it for 17 years, Grenville.

1204
01:28:47,849 --> 01:28:49,400
And they nearly always listened to it.

1205
01:28:49,446 --> 01:28:52,551
At Westminster they are crying for
the pilot that weathered the storm.

1206
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:54,900
That's what Carring has called you.
It has caught on everywhere.

1207
01:28:54,938 --> 01:28:57,363
They sang it the other night
at the Merchant Taylor's Hall.

1208
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,600
- How was it perceived?
- With cheers by all at the table.

1209
01:29:01,639 --> 01:29:03,900
I've plenty to do here in Kent,
you know.

1210
01:29:03,992 --> 01:29:08,734
William, the country is in
mortal danger of an invasion now.

1211
01:29:10,706 --> 01:29:12,812
Addington has stuck his head
into the sand.

1212
01:29:13,163 --> 01:29:15,246
And he's too scared to
take it out again.

1213
01:29:16,294 --> 01:29:17,992
We need a call to arms.

1214
01:29:18,668 --> 01:29:20,410
And you alone can make it.

1215
01:29:23,394 --> 01:29:25,110
Will you speak, Billy?

1216
01:29:33,398 --> 01:29:34,943
Well, doctor...

1217
01:29:35,409 --> 01:29:38,235
You know as well as I do,
Billy, I've told you before.

1218
01:29:38,412 --> 01:29:42,230
No more responsibility,
no more politics.

1219
01:29:42,483 --> 01:29:45,500
You must go slow, Billy,
you must go slow.

1220
01:29:58,244 --> 01:30:01,295
It is not enough for us to say
that Bonaparte is a mad man...

1221
01:30:01,315 --> 01:30:04,300
...and will pay the price of
his madness and folly.

1222
01:30:04,353 --> 01:30:08,030
We must take care that
we do not pay first!

1223
01:30:08,322 --> 01:30:10,678
We are called to struggle for
the destiny...

1224
01:30:10,698 --> 01:30:15,091
...not of this country alone
but of the civilized world!

1225
01:30:15,414 --> 01:30:18,250
Once roused the spirit of this country,

1226
01:30:18,385 --> 01:30:21,305
and give that spirit a just
and powerful direction,

1227
01:30:21,412 --> 01:30:24,079
and you'll see it catching from
town to town, from village to village...

1228
01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:28,634
until soon the whole kingdom will be
alight with one unquenchable flame!

1229
01:30:28,834 --> 01:30:34,673
Our highest exaltation ought to be
that we hold out to countries...

1230
01:30:34,699 --> 01:30:37,666
now bending under the iron
yoke of tyranny...

1231
01:30:38,433 --> 01:30:42,970
...in prospects of what the exertions
of a free people can effect.

1232
01:30:42,990 --> 01:30:48,436
For the benefit of Europe, for the
benefit of the world at large,

1233
01:30:48,990 --> 01:30:54,121
and for the honor of mankind, I say
that the spirit of Bonaparte...

1234
01:30:54,181 --> 01:30:59,500
and the principles he cherishes
must be extinguished...

1235
01:30:59,541 --> 01:31:02,999
...and that other principles
shall prevail!

1236
01:31:11,656 --> 01:31:12,999
William Pitt.

1237
01:31:20,857 --> 01:31:22,406
You must come back.

1238
01:31:23,202 --> 01:31:26,558
I'm ready to serve under you in
any capacity you may think useful.

1239
01:31:27,655 --> 01:31:31,593
How much that might have
meant in the past, Charles.

1240
01:31:31,613 --> 01:31:33,900
It will mean something
in the future.

1241
01:31:34,113 --> 01:31:37,024
Pitt and Fox speaking on
the same side?

1242
01:31:37,427 --> 01:31:40,296
Today has been worthwhile
if only to hear you say that.

1243
01:31:40,496 --> 01:31:42,579
The King will send for you.

1244
01:31:42,622 --> 01:31:44,400
You'll accept of course?

1245
01:31:57,198 --> 01:31:58,241
Very well.

1246
01:32:10,602 --> 01:32:12,030
Boney is busy enough.

1247
01:32:13,458 --> 01:32:15,253
Tents springing up like mushrooms.

1248
01:32:26,747 --> 01:32:30,553
His Majesty's preparing to bathe. He's now
in the machine but will see you at once.

1249
01:32:36,641 --> 01:32:38,850
Mr. Pitt and Mr. Dundas, Sir.

1250
01:32:39,074 --> 01:32:41,198
Ah, urgency overcomes
formality, eh?

1251
01:32:41,213 --> 01:32:44,200
I'm just about to take a modest dip
in the sea which my doctors advised,

1252
01:32:44,220 --> 01:32:45,888
but it must wait. Well, Mr. Pitt?

1253
01:32:45,900 --> 01:32:50,700
The armies of Bonaparte are amassing along
the coast, especially by Boulogne and Calais.

1254
01:32:50,809 --> 01:32:53,400
The shipping is concentrating in
all the ports from Maas to Laurent.

1255
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:56,400
Yes, just one moment and I'm with you.
Albert, my wrap!

1256
01:32:56,582 --> 01:32:59,888
Hasten fellow, hasten, the country is
being invaded. Well, Mr. Pitt?

1257
01:32:59,918 --> 01:33:01,576
We must take every possible step, Sir.

1258
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:05,400
Bonaparte is a rogue. Take your steps, Sir,
take them. What are they?

1259
01:33:05,513 --> 01:33:08,480
The arming of the round bulk
of the whole people of Britain.

1260
01:33:08,540 --> 01:33:11,302
We must call for volunteers to defend
every town and every village.

1261
01:33:11,407 --> 01:33:14,220
An excellent idea, each
man to guard his own home.

1262
01:33:14,290 --> 01:33:17,509
Exactly, Sir, but it will cost money.

1263
01:33:17,530 --> 01:33:18,530
Oh.

1264
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:20,900
We shall need every penny
that can be raised

1265
01:33:20,948 --> 01:33:23,384
Every citizen must give as much
as he can afford.

1266
01:33:26,755 --> 01:33:28,984
- Gentlemen, I can see it in your eyes.
- I admit it, Sir.

1267
01:33:29,009 --> 01:33:31,025
- How much?
- 20,000 from your pretty purse.

1268
01:33:31,045 --> 01:33:34,107
- 20,000 is nothing, better be 50,000.
- Your Majesty is very generous.

1269
01:33:34,127 --> 01:33:36,750
- Proceed immediately, Mr. Pitt.
- The orders are already drafted.

1270
01:33:36,770 --> 01:33:38,003
Issue them at once.

1271
01:33:38,028 --> 01:33:40,538
If that man Bonaparte's troops,
dare to take a landing

1272
01:33:40,540 --> 01:33:43,554
I shall certainly place myself at the head
of my armed subjects and repel him.

1273
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:46,752
- It is now high tide, Sir.
- A special high tide, eh, gentlemen?

1274
01:33:47,052 --> 01:33:49,134
It seems as though I should breast it.

1275
01:33:49,844 --> 01:33:51,110
Mr. Pitt.

1276
01:33:51,341 --> 01:33:53,565
I look to you to valor
the spirit of our country.

1277
01:33:54,810 --> 01:33:57,500
I'm heartily glad to see
you back in the saddle again.

1278
01:34:26,986 --> 01:34:28,443
To France.

1279
01:34:36,849 --> 01:34:40,457
So under the threat of invasion
Britain awakes.

1280
01:34:40,562 --> 01:34:44,800
All over the country young men and old
flock to join the home defense forces.

1281
01:34:44,939 --> 01:34:49,437
Loyal Londoners, Bath volunteers,
the Highland brigades.

1282
01:34:49,537 --> 01:34:51,449
Old feuds are forgotten.

1283
01:34:51,549 --> 01:34:54,700
Charles Fox too is a private
in the Chancellery volunteers.

1284
01:34:54,974 --> 01:34:58,303
While in Downing Street the fingers
of a sick man...

1285
01:34:58,469 --> 01:35:02,100
...grasp all these threads in
the growing web of Britain's defense.

1286
01:35:02,242 --> 01:35:04,423
His lamp of life is already flickering,

1287
01:35:04,877 --> 01:35:08,983
but he struggles on with the desperate
energy of a man who has much to do...

1288
01:35:09,183 --> 01:35:10,999
...and little time to do it in.

1289
01:35:11,163 --> 01:35:14,352
Roused from sleep with a
dispatch from the First Lord,

1290
01:35:14,502 --> 01:35:17,721
then with a little bottle of cordial
confection in his pocket,

1291
01:35:17,938 --> 01:35:20,727
off to the House till three or
four in the morning.

1292
01:35:20,831 --> 01:35:22,904
Scarcely up next day,

1293
01:35:23,109 --> 01:35:26,700
went rat-tat-tat, 20 or 30 people,
one after another.

1294
01:35:26,981 --> 01:35:29,763
And wine and wine

1295
01:35:29,997 --> 01:35:34,572
The horses walking before the door
from two till sunset waiting for him.

1296
01:35:34,955 --> 01:35:37,102
It was enough to kill a man.

1297
01:35:37,113 --> 01:35:38,999
It was murder.

1298
01:35:39,666 --> 01:35:43,700
Once Admiral Villeneuve has disposed
of the British fleet, the coast is clear.

1299
01:35:43,756 --> 01:35:47,125
My combined fleets appear
suddenly off the coast of Boulogne...

1300
01:35:47,237 --> 01:35:49,100
commanding the deserted Channel...

1301
01:35:49,282 --> 01:35:53,159
and ready to cover way for
120,000 men of my army of England...

1302
01:35:53,259 --> 01:35:56,300
...to plant the imperial Eagle on
the Tower of London.

1303
01:35:56,460 --> 01:35:59,121
- Boney is bringing up more men.
- Yes, Sir.

1304
01:35:59,221 --> 01:36:01,265
- Give the ready.
- Signal sea.

1305
01:36:03,108 --> 01:36:09,559
To Admiralty, Charing Cross.
Enemy activity increasing.

1306
01:36:09,737 --> 01:36:14,156
Reported more troops have arrived Calais.

1307
01:36:14,329 --> 01:36:17,094
There can be no doubt that
Napoleon intends to combine...

1308
01:36:17,198 --> 01:36:20,900
...the French and Spanish fleets at present
at Cadiz to prepare the way for invasion.

1309
01:36:21,617 --> 01:36:25,972
If you can crush them, these
shores are safe for a generation.

1310
01:36:26,008 --> 01:36:31,982
My Lord this country already
owes you a great, great debt.

1311
01:36:33,300 --> 01:36:34,800
We shall do our best.

1312
01:36:34,839 --> 01:36:37,000
Permit me, My Lord, to see
you to your carriage.

1313
01:36:37,117 --> 01:36:40,008
Portsmouth to Admiralty, London.

1314
01:36:40,009 --> 01:36:44,609
HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson
sailed this morning.

1315
01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:55,883
Give me command of the Channel
for six hours and the business is settled.

1316
01:37:05,550 --> 01:37:09,300
The enemy are in sight, My Lord.
10 miles to east heading southern.

1317
01:37:09,596 --> 01:37:11,801
- Make the signal to prepare for action.
- Yes, My Lord.

1318
01:37:33,856 --> 01:37:37,564
I wonder... I wonder if we'll
hear anything tonight.

1319
01:37:39,264 --> 01:37:43,000
If only we could be reading about
this instead of waiting for it.

1320
01:37:47,854 --> 01:37:50,605
Here's your supper, Mr. Billy,
before you go to bed.

1321
01:37:51,247 --> 01:37:52,461
What is that?

1322
01:37:52,853 --> 01:37:54,296
Gruel.

1323
01:37:54,986 --> 01:37:56,795
Do you call that a supper?

1324
01:37:56,882 --> 01:37:59,600
If you manage to keep even
that down, it'll be an improvement.

1325
01:37:59,744 --> 01:38:02,013
Here's your medicine, drink that first.

1326
01:38:14,501 --> 01:38:15,850
Good health.

1327
01:38:22,624 --> 01:38:26,281
You know, William, I allow myself
only one hope.

1328
01:38:28,143 --> 01:38:31,755
To live to see the prospects
of victory.

1329
01:38:32,356 --> 01:38:34,211
It's all I ask.

1330
01:38:37,605 --> 01:38:40,240
The whole of England waited
for news.

1331
01:38:47,512 --> 01:38:50,787
Till at last a frigate arrived
off Plymouth.

1332
01:39:12,904 --> 01:39:16,700
Partial firing continued until 4 pm.

1333
01:39:17,869 --> 01:39:22,914
When a victory having been reported to
Admiral Lord Nelson,

1334
01:39:22,999 --> 01:39:25,615
he died of his wounds.

1335
01:39:44,891 --> 01:39:47,170
You say this is the second
attack in four days?

1336
01:39:47,190 --> 01:39:48,190
Yes.

1337
01:39:48,210 --> 01:39:50,670
You must not allow no visitors
whatsoever. Cancel all his appointments.

1338
01:39:50,700 --> 01:39:52,280
- He won't like that, Sir Walter.
- I don't doubt it.

1339
01:39:52,300 --> 01:39:54,607
I know how anxious he was to attend
the dinner at Guildhall today.

1340
01:39:54,624 --> 01:39:55,933
That's out of the question.

1341
01:39:56,305 --> 01:40:00,765
He's more than a sick man.
I can't put it plainer than that.

1342
01:40:01,282 --> 01:40:04,143
You know what the consequences
would be as well as I do.

1343
01:41:01,860 --> 01:41:06,261
It is to this pilot, whose
courage and foresight...

1344
01:41:06,376 --> 01:41:12,900
...have been our salvation and indeed
the salvation of the entire civilized world,

1345
01:41:12,999 --> 01:41:15,600
that we pay tribute today.

1346
01:41:16,057 --> 01:41:18,693
Mr. William Pitt.

1347
01:41:35,618 --> 01:41:39,700
My Lord Mayor, My Lords.

1348
01:41:40,828 --> 01:41:42,462
Ladies and gentlemen.

1349
01:41:44,478 --> 01:41:48,144
I return you many thanks
for the honour you have done me.

1350
01:41:49,442 --> 01:41:55,700
But Europe is not to be saved
by any single man.

1351
01:41:57,950 --> 01:42:03,186
England has saved herself
by her exertions.

1352
01:42:04,586 --> 01:42:09,999
And will, as I trust, save Europe...

1353
01:42:11,886 --> 01:42:13,731
...by her example

1354
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:49,000
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