[ [!-- Note Anchor 158 --][Footnote 158: Ibid., iii., 187.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 159 --][Footnote 159: Campbell's "Lives of the Chief-justices," II., 139, life of Chief-justice Holt; and p. 418, life of Lord Mansfield.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 160 --][Footnote 160: "Life of Wilberforce," i., 158.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 161 --][Footnote 161: The division in the Lords was 100 to 36; in the Commons, 283 to 16.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 162 --][Footnote 162: Afterward the Earl Grey of 1831.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 163 --][Footnote 163: See especially his "Letters to Lord Castlereagh," p. 814; and "Life of Lord Liverpool," i., 512; ii., 35, 49, 127.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 164 --][Footnote 164: Lord Colchester's "Diary," ii., 49, dated April 3, 1806, says eighteen years. But Mr. Windham's speech, as reported in the "Parliamentary History," second series, vi., 685, says sixteen years; and as he divides the ages into three classes, the two latter of which, from twenty-four to thirty-two, and from thirty-two to forty, are of eight years each, it is probable that the younger class was of the same duration, i.e., from sixteen to twenty-four.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 165 --][Footnote 165: Lord Colchester's "Diary," ii., 300.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 166 --][Footnote 166: See "Diary of Lord Colchester" (Speaker at the time), c. xxxvi., p. 316. He gives the whole of the Prince's letter to Perceval (which had been composed by Sheridan), and of Perceval's reply. The Regency Bill became law February 5, 1811.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 167 --][Footnote 167: A letter of Lord Wellesley to Lord Grey, June 4 (given by Pearce, "Life of Lord Wellesley," iii., 270), shows that Lord Moira had been in communication with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville before Lord Wellesley had given up the idea of forming a ministry. And though Lord Grey in his reply (p. 272) expresses his conviction that Lord Moira's letter was not "an authorized communication," but only "a private communication," it is clear that it could not have been written without the privity of the Regent.]