“Downing Street, Tuesday morning, Feb. 23, 1790.
“I cannot help begging to remind your Grace of the wish expressed that the answer to the Spanish ambassador should if possible be circulated before our meeting to-day. I am the more anxious about this, as no one would like to give a final opinion on the terms of a paper of so much delicacy and importance without having had an opportunity of considering them beforehand.”
[917] See del Campo’s note of 20th April, in Manning, 374, 375.
[918] “Dropmore P.,” i, 579, 580; “F. O.,” Spain, 17.
[919] “Journals of Sir T. Byam Martin” (Navy Records Soc.), iii, 381, 382.
[920] “The Barham P.” (Navy Records Soc.), ii, 337–47.
[921] Manning, 408.
[922] “Parl. Hist.,” xxviii, 785.
[923] “Wealth of Nations,” bk. iv, ch. vii, pt. 2.
[924] B.M. Add. MSS., 35542. Miranda’s relations with Pitt were renewed in 1804. On 13th June 1805 he sought to dispel some suspicions which Pitt had formed of him, and added: “Je n’ai jamais départi un instant des principes politiques et moraux qui formèrent notre première liaison politique en 1790.” See, too, an interesting article on Miranda in the “Amer. Hist. Rev.,” vol. vi, for proofs of the dealings of Pitt with Miranda at that time. On 12th September 1791 Pitt wrote to him stating that he could not grant him the pension he asked for, or the sum of £1,000: £500 must suffice for the expenses incurred during his stay in London (Pitt MSS., 102).