[760] Pitt MSS., 12.
[761] “Parl. Hist.,” xxix, 250–359.
[762] “Hist. de la Rév. à Saint Domingue,” by A. M. Delmas. 2 vols. Paris, 1814; “Hist. Survey of ... San Domingo,” by Bryan Edwards. 1797.
[763] “Life of Wilberforce,” i, 295–6, 340, 342.
[764] Ibid., i, 344.
[765] Virg. “Georg.,” i, 250: “On us the rising sun first breathed with panting steeds, there ruddy Vesper full late kindles his fires.”
[766] “Parl. Hist.,” xxix, 1133–58.
[767] “Life of Wilberforce,” i, 346. Lord Auckland (who, as Mr. Eden, had been a philanthropist) referred sarcastically to Pitt’s speech: “Mr. Pitt has raised his imagination to the belief that the trade ought, at all events and risks, to be instantly discontinued.... Some people are urging this business upon a mischievous principle” (“Auckland Journals,” ii, 400).
[768] Chevening MSS.
[769] Clarkson, op. cit., ii, 460.