FOOTNOTES:

[68] Lord Londonderry in Twiss, Life of Eldon, ii., 432.

[69] Harriet Martineau, History of England During the Thirty Years' Peace, i., 274.

[70] Letters to Copleston, p. 295.

[71] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times (edit. 1903), pp. 756-59. Compare Dicey, Law and Opinion in England, pp. 190-200.

[72] The graphic description of this crisis in Harriet Martineau's History of the Thirty Years' Peace, i., 355-66, deserves to be studied and remembered as a masterpiece of social portraiture by a contemporary.

[73] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times, p. 823.

[74] Walpole's History of England, vol. ii., p. 187.

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