[907] “Private Papers of Wilberforce,” 71.
[908] Burke, “Corresp.” iii, 344.
[909] “Life of Wilberforce,” i, 284.
[910] Burke, “Corresp.,” iii, 238, 239, 255, 267, 274, 275, 278, 291, 302, 308, 336, 342.
[911] The following narrative is founded mainly on documents in “F. O.,” Spain, 17, 18, 19; but I have found a monograph by Dr. W. R. Manning, “The Nootka Sound Controversy” (Washington, 1905), most serviceable.
[912] I cannot agree with Dr. Manning (p. 360) that there were no signs of a British occupation of Nootka when Martinez arrived. The reverse is antecedently probable, and is asserted in Meares’ “Memorial.”
[913] The “Memorial” is among the British archives in “F. O.,” Spain, 17. For a critique of it see Manning.
[914] Liston to Auckland, 14th September 1790 (B.M. Add. MSS., 34433).
[915] “F. O.,” Spain, 16.
[916] Ibid. That this resolve was that of the whole Cabinet appears in the following letter in the Pitt MSS. It is from Pitt to Leeds: