[94] “Reminiscences of Charles Butler,” i, 172.
[95] Wraxall, “Memoirs,” ii, 62; G. Rose, “Diaries,” i, 28.
[96] Lecky, “Hist. of England in the XVIIIth Cent.,” iv, 228–34, does not absolve Shelburne of the charge of duplicity in the matter of the negotiations for peace; but Sir G. C. Lewis, “Administrations of Great Britain,” 31–48, minimizes the importance of the point at issue.
[97] Fitzmaurice, “Shelburne,” iii, 118–21.
[98] “Private Papers of W. Wilberforce,” 79.
[99] Cartwright, “Take your Choice” (1776). In 1780 Cartwright founded “The Society for promoting Constitutional Information,” the first of the modern clubs that was purely political.
[100] “The Speeches of William Pitt” (4 vols., 1806), i, 1–7.
[101] “George Selwyn: his Letters and his Life,” p. 132 (Storer to Lord Carlisle, Feb. 28, 1781). He adds that Woodfall reported the debates “almost always faithfully.” I therefore see no reason for refraining, as Earl Stanhope did, from citing many passages of his speeches, on the ground that they were very imperfectly reported.
[102] Ibid., p. 143.
[103] These images are curiously like those used by Lord Shelburne on 25th January 1781. See Fitzmaurice, “Shelburne,” iii, 120.