, p. 285), have been attributed to him. He, however, denied (Moore's
Journal and Correspondence
, vol. ii. p. 304) that he wrote any part of the
Rolliad
. A Whig, and an intimate friend and follower of Fox, he was in 1791 at St. Petersburg, where the Tories believed that he had been sent by his chief on "half a mission" to intrigue with Russia against Pitt. The charge was published by Dr. Pretyman, Bishop of Winchester, in his
Life of Pitt
(1821), who may have wished to pay off old scores, and to retaliate on one of the reputed authors of the
Rolliad
for the "Pretymaniana," and was answered in
Two Letters from Mr. Adair to the Bishop of Winchester