[13] Burnet's "History of His Own Time," vol. i. p. 184.
[14] "Public affairs vex no man," said Dr. Johnson, when asked whether he were not annoyed by this vote. "I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head, to be sure; but I was not vexed."
[15] Boswell's "Life of Johnson," p. 731. (Cromwell had already stigmatized Scotland as corrupt. He had been told, he said, that it was a poor country inhabited by honest people, but found that the country was not poor and the people anything but honest.)
[16] Dr. King's "Anecdotes of His Own Time," p. 44.
[17] "History of His Own Time," vol. ii. p. 76.
[18] "History," vol. iii. p. 545.
[19] "Correspondence of George III. and Lord North," vol. ii. p. 425.
[20] Bell's "Life of Canning," p. 347.
[21] Mark Boyd's "Social Gleanings," p. 246.
[22] Russell's "Recollections," p. 35.