[401] See Vol. I, page 42, note 4 {24}.
[402] See Vol. II, page 249, note [398].
[403] John Palmer (1742-1818) was a theatrical manager. In 1782 he set forth a plan for forwarding the mails by stage coaches instead of by postmen. Pitt adopted the plan in 1784. Palmer was made comptroller-general of the post office in 1786 and was dismissed six years later for arbitrarily suspending a deputy. He had been verbally promised 2½% on the increased revenue, but Pitt gave him only a pension of £3000. In 1813 he was awarded £50,000 in addition to his pension.
[404] Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of natural philosophy in London University (now University College). His Cabinet Cyclopædia (1829-1849) contained 133 volumes. De Morgan wrote on probabilities, and Lardner on various branches of mathematics, and there were many other well-known contributors. Lardner is said to have made $200,000 on a lecture tour in America.
[405] Thomas Fysche Palmer (1747-1802) joined the Unitarians in 1783, and in 1785 took a charge in Dundee. He was arrested for sedition because of an address that it was falsely alleged that he gave before a society known as the "Friends of Liberty." As a matter of fact the address was given by an uneducated weaver, and Palmer was merely asked to revise it, declining to do even this. Nevertheless he was sentenced to Botany Bay (1794) for seven years. The trial aroused great indignation.
[406] See Vol. I, page 80, note 5 {119}.
[407] See Vol. II, page 244, note [394].
[408] See Vol. I, page 352, note 1 {731}.
[409] See Vol. I, page 332, note 4 {709}.
[410] "The lawyers are brought into court; let them accuse each other."