[174] Wraxall, iii, 122.
[175] “Early Life of Samuel Rogers,” 134.
[176] D’Haussonville, “The Salon of Mme. Necker,” ii, 50 (Eng. ed.).
[177] “Private Papers of W. Wilberforce,” 58. Strange to say, Horace Walpole does not mention the affair in his letters.
[178] Horace Walpole (24th Feb. 1783).
[179] Milton, “A Free Commonwealth.”
[180] See, too, “Memorials of Fox,” ii, 98. Probably the second Bill contained more of the suggestions of Burke.
[181] Wraxall, iii, 146, 155.
[182] Paper dated 4th Dec. 1783, in Pitt MSS., 354.
[183] “Parl. Hist.,” xxiii, 1187–1208.