[22] T. Walker, "Review of ... political events in Manchester (1789–1794)," 452–79. I cannot agree with Mr. J. R. le B. Hammond ("Fox," 76) that Pitt now spoke as the avowed enemy of parliamentary reform. Indeed, he never spoke in that sense, but opposed it as inopportune.
[23] Rutt, "Mems. of Priestly," ii, 25. As is well known, Burke's "Reflections on the Fr. Rev.," was in part an answer to Dr. Price's sermon of 4th November 1789 in the Old Jewry chapel, to the Society for celebrating the Revolution of 1688.
[24] It was more of a club than the branches of the "Society for Constitutional Information," which did good work in 1780–4, but expired in 1784 owing to the disgust of reformers at the Fox–North Coalition—so Place asserts (B.M. Add. MSS., 27808).
[25] T. Walker, op. cit., 18, 19.
[26] "Parl. Hist.," xxix, 488–510.
[27] Ibid., 113–9.
[28] M. D. Conway, "Life of T. Paine," i, 284.
[29] Burke's Works, iii, 76 (Bohn edit.).
[30] Ibid., iii, 12. So, too, on 30th August 1791 Priestley wrote that Pitt had shown himself unfavourable to their cause (Rutt, "Life of Priestley," ii, 145).
[31] Prior, "Life of Burke," 322, who states very incorrectly that not one of them has survived.