[431] "Corresp. of Sir John Sinclair," i, 124.
[432] Pitt MSS., 193. Sinclair raised two corps of Fencibles. The list of his works, pamphlets, etc., fills thirty-two pages at the end of his Memoirs.
[433] "Mems. of Sir John Sinclair," ii, 106–9.
[434] "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies."
[435] "Lord Colchester's Diary," i, 82.
[436] "Mems. of Lady Hester Stanhope," i, 177–81. Tomline asserted that a lady of the highest rank desired to marry Pitt. Various conjectures have been made on this topic. Lord Rosebery suggests that the Duchess of Gordon was hinted at.
[437] "Auckland Journals," iii, 356, 363, 369, 373–4.
[438] Wordsworth, "Prelude," bk. xiv.
[439] Pretyman MSS. Quoted in full, with Pitt's second letter and one of Auckland, by Lord Ashbourne ("Pitt," 241–4).
[440] Pellew, i, 183.