[15] See vol. x., p. 399.
[16] Pellew, Life of Sidmouth, ii., 145-47; Stanhope, Life of Pitt, iv., 88-93.
[17] For a list of Canning's squibs, belonging to this period, see Lewis, Administrations, p. 249, note.
[18] It was not fair to hold Addington entirely responsible for the promotion of his brother, who had been a junior lord of the treasury under Pitt. The taunt came with a particularly bad grace from Canning, who had himself been paymaster-general in the last administration.
[19] Pellew, Life of Sidmouth, ii., 250.
[20] Annual Register, xlvi. (1804), p. 34.
[21] Stanhope, Life of Pitt, iv., 135-44.
[22] See the letter in Stanhope, Life of Pitt, iv., appendix, pp. i.-iii.
[23] There is preserved a sketch in Pitt's handwriting of a combined administration with Melville, Fox, and Fitzwilliam as secretaries of state, and Grenville as lord president.
[24] Stanhope, Life of Pitt, iv., appendix, pp. xi., xii.