[ [!-- Note Anchor 74 --][Footnote 74: In Lord Chatham's or the Duke of Grafton's ministry of 1766, and in the later administration of Lord Rockingham.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 75 --][Footnote 75: It may be convenient to take this opportunity of pointing out that, in this administration, Lord Shelburne altered the old, most unreasonable, and inconvenient arrangement by which the departments of the two Secretaries of State were distinguished by the latitude, and called Northern and Southern. By a new division, one took charge of the home affairs, the other of the foreign affairs. And in 1794 a third Secretary was added for War, who, by a very singular arrangement, which continued till very recently, had charge also of the colonies. But, in the year 1855, the Colonial-office was intrusted to a separate minister; and in 1858 a fifth Secretary of State, that for India, was added, on the transfer of the government of that country from the East India Company to the Crown. When there were only two Secretaries of State, the rule was that one should sit in each House. At present it is not necessary that more than one should be a peer, though it is more usual for two to be members of the Upper House. And it is usual also for the Under-secretaries to be members of the House to which the Chief-secretaries do not belong, though this rule is not invariably observed.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 76 --][Footnote 76: "Parliamentary History," xxiii., 163.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 77 --][Footnote 77: The divisions were: 224 to 208, and 207 to 190.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 78 --][Footnote 78: Lord Stanhope, quoting from an unpublished "Life of Lord Barrington," compiled by the Bishop of Durham (meaning, I suppose, Bishop Shute Barrington).—History of England, v., 174.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 79 --][Footnote 79: Even with the first flush of triumph, the night after the second defeat of Lord Shelburne in the House of Commons, Fox's great friend, Mr. Fitzpatrick, writes to his brother, Lord Ossory: "To the administration it is cila mors, but not victoria loeta to us. The apparent juncture with Lord North is universally cried out against."—Lord J. Russell's Memorials and Correspondence of C.J. Fox, ii., 18.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 80 --][Footnote 80: Lord J. Russell's "Memorials and Correspondence of C.J. Fox," ii., 90.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 81 --][Footnote 81: Ibid., p. 118.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 82 --][Footnote 82: In one division (161 to 137) they had only a majority of twenty-four.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 83 --][Footnote 83: In a letter to Lord Northington (Lord-lieutenant of Ireland), dated July 17, Fox himself mentions that not one of his colleagues, except the Duke of Portland and Lord Keppel (First Lord of the Admiralty), approved of it.—Memoirs of Fox, ii., 116.]