[640] W. Sichel, “Sheridan,” ii, 400.
[641] T. Moore, “Life of Sheridan,” ii, 31–5; Campbell, “Lives of the Lord Chancellors,” vii, 248, 239 (edit. of 1857).
[642] T. Moore, op. cit., p. 29.
[643] Campbell, op. cit., p. 251, who had the story from Thomas Grenville. See, too, Wilberforce, i, 386, 387.
[644] Dr. W. Hunt, “Political Hist. of England,” x, 64–5.
[645] This letter fixes the date of Pitt’s letter to Grenville, headed merely “Tuesday morning,” in “Dropmore P.” (i, 361). Pitt quotes the phrase “perfectly maniacal,” and adds “I begin to fear the physicians have been more in the right than we thought.”
[646] Pretyman MSS.
[647] Chevening MSS.
[648] “Buckingham P.,” ii, 9.
[649] G. Rose, “Diaries,” i, 87.