[347] Dalling's "Historical Characters," vol. ii. p. 175.
[348] Barrow's "Mirror of Parliament" (1830).
[349] Sir J. Mackintosh's "Memoirs," vol. ii p. 192.
[350] Grattan used to walk about the park at Windsor haranguing the oaks in a loud voice. A passer-by once found him apostrophising an empty gibbet. "How did you get down?" asked the stranger politely. O'Flanagan, "Irish Chancellors," vol. ii. p. 416.
[351] Letters, vol. ii. pp. 328-9.
[352] "Lord Colchester's Diary," vol. i. p. 23.
[353] "Pitt spoke like ten thousand angels," wrote Richard Grenville to George Grenville in November, 1742 ("Grenville Papers," vol. i. p. 19).
[354] "Memoirs," vol. i. p. 490.
[355] Prior's "Life of Malone," p. 361.
[356] Samuel Roger's "Recollections," p. 80.