[104] Both letters are among the Chevening MSS.

[105] “Life of Wilberforce,” i, 17.

[106] Ibid., v, 292.

[107] Ashbourne, p. 159.

[108] “Private Papers of Wilberforce,” 68.

[109] Lord Waldegrave’s “Memoirs,” p. 63.

[110] Pitt MSS., 103.

[111] Nicholl, “Recollections of George III,” i, 389.

[112] Porritt, i, 409–15.

[113] See May’s “Const. History,” i, 315 et seq. for the increase of the Secret Service Fund under George III.