[352] “Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council,” 50–55.
[353] Ibid., 68.
[354] Ibid., 78, 79.
[355] “The Proposed System of Trade with Ireland explained” (1785).
[356] Letter of 6th April to Duke of Rutland in “Rutland P.,” iii, 197.
[357] T. Moore, “Life of Sheridan,” i, 424.
[358] Wraxall, iv, 127–38.
[359] Lord Morley (“Burke,” 125) allows that Burke was wrong in following Fox’s factious opposition, and that he “allowed his political integrity to be bewildered.”
[360] The actual authors of these amusing poems were Tickell, General Fitzpatrick, Lord John Townsend, Richardson, George Ellis, and Burke’s friend and literary executor, Dr. Lawrence, who contributed the prose parts. (T. Moore, “Sheridan,” i, 421.)
[361] “The Rolliad,” 90, 370.