B.

[Footnote 1:]

For Byron's speech, February 27, 1812, see

[Appendix II. (1)]

.] Grenville said,

"There never was a maxim of greater wisdom than that uttered by the noble lord [Byron] who had so ably addressed their lordships that night for the first time"

(

Hansard

, vol. xxi. p. 977). Moore quotes a passage from Byron's