William Pitt the Younger provinces: the predominantly French Lower Canada and the predominantly English Upper Canada. In August 1792, coincident with the capture of Louis XVI by the French revolutionaries, George III appointed Pitt as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, a position whose incumbent was responsible for the coastal defences of the realm. The King had in 1791 offered him a Knighthood of the Garter, but he suggested the honour go to his elder brother, the second Earl of Chatham. An early favourable response to the French Revolution encouraged many in Great Britain to reopen the issue of parliamentary reform, which had been
William Pitt (1803 ship) and arrived at the Downs on 14 September. Butler sailed "William Pitt" from Torbay on 25 March 1813, bound for Batavia. She was homeward bound when she was lost in a gale while east of Algoa Bay at about midnight on 16 December 1814; there were no survivors. The EIC valued its loss on her cargo at £4502. Citations References William Pitt (1803 ship) William Pitt was a three-decker sailing ship, built in Liverpool in 1803. She made three complete voyages for the British East India Company (EIC), and on the first of these she transported convicts to New South