[183a] Hay to Edgar, October 1752. In Browne, iv. 106.
[183b] ‘Mildmay’ to ‘Green,’ January 24, 1753.
[184] S. P. Poland. No. 81.
[196a] Carlyle’s Frederick, iv. 467. Compare, for the views of political circles, Horace Walpole’s Reign of George II. i. 333, 353, and his Letters to Horace Mann for 1753.
[196b] Reign of George II. i. 290.
[197] Add MSS. British Museum, 33,847, f. 271. ‘Private and most secret.’
[198a] Politische Correspondenz Friederichs des Grossen. Duncker. Berlin, 1879, ix. 356.
[198b] Can the Earl and the Doctor have approved of renewing the infamous Elibank plot?
[201] Many historians, such as Lord Campbell in his Lives of the Chancellors, condemn as cruel the execution of Cameron. But the Government was well informed.
[202] The Active Testimony of the Presbyterians of Scotland, 1749.