'Hibernia, smile!
Thrice happy isle,
On thy blest ground
Twelve thousand pound
For Stanhope's found,
Three thousand clear
For Pitt a year;
So shalt thou thrive,
Industrious hive,
While these and more
Increase thy store.'
Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.
[179] Camelford.
[180] Cf. Underwood MSS. (Hist. MSS.), p. 405.
[181] He avowed this to Newcastle (Orford, George III. i. 82 note). But it was otherwise patent.
[182] Parl. Hist. xiv. 103.
[183] See the debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 204.
[184] Gibbs' History of Aylesbury, 502.
[185] Torrens says (History of Cabinets, ii. 119) that this speech was revised by Pitt, but gives no authority. Almon (i. 172) specifically declares that it was written by Gordon.
[186] Parl. Hist. xiv. 502.
[187] Grenville Papers, i. 93-5.