[ [!-- Note Anchor 84 --][Footnote 84: November 22 he writes to the Duke of Rutland: "The bill ... is, I really think, the boldest and most unconstitutional measure ever attempted, transferring at one stroke, in spite of all charters and compacts, the immense patronage and influence of the East to Charles Fox, in or out of office."—Stanhope's Life of Pitt, i., 140.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 85 --][Footnote 85: The whole paper is given by the Duke of Buckingham, "Courts and Cabinets of George III," i., 288, and quoted by Lord Russell in his "Memorials and Correspondence of C. J. Fox," ii., 251. It is endorsed, "Delivered by Lord Thurlow, December 1, 1783. Nugent Temple.">[
[ [!-- Note Anchor 86 --][Footnote 86: "Life of Pitt," i., 148. Lord Stanhope does not pledge himself to these being "the exact words of this commission, but as to its purport and meaning there is no doubt." They are, however, the exact words quoted by Fox in his speech in support of Mr. Baker's resolutions on the 17th.—Parliamentary History, xxiv., 207.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 87 --][Footnote 87: "Parliamentary History," xxiv., 151-154.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 88 --][Footnote 88: 95 to 76. "Strange to say, one of the cabinet ministers, Lord Stormont, president of the council, formed part of the final majority against the bill."—Life of Pitt, ii., 154.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 89 --][Footnote 89: "Life of Pitt," i., 155.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 90 --][Footnote 90: "Lives of the Chancellors," c. clix. Lord Thurlow.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 91 --][Footnote 91: "The Grenville Papers," iii., 374. It may, however, be remarked, as tending to throw some doubt on Mr. Grenville's statement, that Lord Campbell asserts that "Lord Mansfield, without entering into systematic opposition, had been much alienated from the court during Lord Rockingham's first administration."—Lives of the Chief-justices, ii., 468.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 92 --][Footnote 92: Vol. ii., pp. 229-232.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 93 --][Footnote 93: It will be seen hereafter that this doctrine was admitted in the fullest degree by Sir Robert Peel in the winter of 1884, when he admitted that his acceptance of office made him alone responsible for the dismissal of Lord Melbourne, though, in fact, he was taken entirely by surprise by the King's act, being in Italy at the time.]