[935] Ibid. Fitzherbert to Leeds, 12th July.
[936] Ibid. Leeds to Fitzherbert, 17th August.
[937] Manning, 405, 406; “Dropmore P.,” i, 603, 606.
[938] “Despatches of Earl Gower (1790–1792),” 23, edited by Mr. Oscar Browning. Gower succeeded Dorset as ambassador at Paris on 20th June 1790.
[939] “Travaux de Mirabeau,” iv, 24–49, which shows that this was not the work of the Assembly, but the proposal of Mirabeau. W. A. Miles reported (“Corresp.,” i, 255), that Mirabeau received from the Spanish ambassador one thousand louis d’or for carrying this proposal.
[940] “F. O.,” Spain, 18. Fitzherbert to Leeds, 17th August.
[941] “Gower’s Despatches,” 29; “Corresp. of W.A. Miles,” i, 162, 163.
[942] Ibid., i, 41–8, 150.
[943] In the Pitt MSS. there is a packet (No. 159) of Miles’s letters to Pitt, beginning with 1785. On 13th May 1790 Miles wrote to Pitt that George Rose had informed him he could not see how Pitt could employ him. Miles begged Pitt for a pension as a literary man. There is no other letter to Pitt until 10th December 1790, dated Paris:—“My attachment to your interest and a sincere desire to give every possible support to your Administration induced me to engage without difficulty in the enterprise proposed by Mr. Rose, and to accept of a salary inadequate to the expenses of the most frugal establishment,” viz., £400 a year. He adds that he has trenched on his private property, and concludes by asking for the consulate at Ostend.
[944] “Corresp. of W. A. Miles,” i, 171, 172, 199.