[134] Fitzmaurice, “Shelburne,” vol. iii, chs. iv-vi.
[135] “Buckingham Papers,” i, 76.
[136] Fitzmaurice, “Shelburne,” iii, 305; Stanhope, “Pitt,” i, 86.
[137] “Parl. Hist.,” xxiii, 265.
[138] Keppel resigned on the question of the terms of peace; the Duke of Richmond disapproved them; Grafton was lukewarm. See their speeches, 17th February 1783 (“Parl. Hist.,” xxiii, 392–6). W. W. Grenville refused to move the resolution in the Commons in favour of the peace, as Pitt urged him to do (“Dropmore P.,” i, 194).
[139] “Memorials of Fox,” ii, 33.
[140] “Memorials of Fox,” ii, 37, 38; “Auckland Journals,” i, 40–5. Lord John Townshend, Adam, Eden, Lord Loughborough, and George North helped to bring about the Coalition. Burke favoured the plan, also Sheridan, though later on he vehemently declared the contrary (ibid., pp. 21–4).
[141] Mr. Le B. Hammond, “Life of Fox,” pp. 57, 58.
[142] “My friendships are eternal, my hatreds can be appeased.”
[143] “Parl. Hist.,” xxiii, 541.