FOOTNOTES:
[56] See vol. iii. p. 416.
[57] Cobbett’s Debates, Feb. 4, 1807, viii. 620-656.
[58] Napoleon to Champagny, Aug. 19, 1807; Correspondance, xv. 509.
[59] Same to Same, Aug. 24, 1807; Ibid., p. 542.
[60] Parliamentary Inquiry, 1808; Evidence of Robert Shedden and Mr. Hadley.
[61] Castlereagh to Perceval, Oct. 1, 1807; Castlereagh Correspondence, viii. 87.
[62] Original Suggestions to the Cabinet, Oct. 12, 1807; Perceval MSS.
[63] Opinion of the Duke of Portland; Perceval MSS.
[64] Stapleton’s Canning, p. 411.
[65] Opinion of the Earl of Westmoreland; Perceval MSS.
[66] Opinion of Lord Hawkesbury; Perceval MSS.
[67] Opinion of Lord Castlereagh; Perceval MSS.
[68] Opinion of Mr. Canning; Perceval MSS.
[69] First Draft of Orders in Council, with remarks by Earl Bathurst; Perceval MSS.
[70] Opinion of Lord Bathurst in dissent to the Principle of Mr. Perceval’s proposed Order; Perceval MSS.
[71] Lord Bathurst to Spencer Perceval, Nov. 5, 1807; Perceval MSS.
[72] Spencer Perceval to Speaker Abbot; Diary and Correspondence of Lord Colchester, ii. 134.
[73] Erskine to Madison, Feb. 23, 1808; State Papers, iii. 209.
[74] Cobbett’s Debates, x. 328.
[75] Debate of Feb. 15, 1808; Cobbett’s Debates, x. 471.
[76] Debate of Feb. 15, 1808; Cobbett’s Debates, x. 485.
[77] Speech of James Stephen, March 6, 1809; Cobbett’s Debates, xiii., Appendix lxxvi.
[78] Debate of March 3, 1812; report in Times and Morning Chronicle of March 4, 1812.
[79] Erskine to Madison, Feb. 23, 1808; State Papers, iii. 209.
[80] Baring’s Inquiry, pp. 14, 15.