[482] “Auckland Journals,” i, 112.
[483] B.M. Add. MSS., 28061. Letter of 19th May 1786.
[484] Ibid. Letter of 12th December 1786.
[485] Ibid.
[486] Pitt MSS., 333.
[487] This letter of 6th June has no date of the year, and it has been bound up in vol. 28064 of the Add. MSS. in the British Museum for the year 1789 of the Auckland MSS. Internal evidence shows that the year should be 1786.
[488] Their memorial, dated 22nd February 1786, is from the London silk trade (B.M. Add. MSS., 34420). It states that “no alteration or modification whatsoever, short of the present prohibition of all foreign wrought silks, can ensure the silk trade to this country.”
[489] Pitt MSS., 110.
[490] “Pitt-Rutland Corresp.,” 158; “Beaufort Papers” (Hist. MSS. Commission), 353.
[491] Pitt MSS., 110. Eden to Pitt, 23rd August.