[461] J. Corbett, "England in the Seven Years' War," i, 191.
[462] "Malmesbury Diaries," iii, 259–368; "Dropmore P.," iii, 239–42, 256, 287, 290.
[463] Pitt MSS., 102. See Stanhope, iii, App., for the letters of the King and Pitt; "Dropmore P.," iii, 310 et seq.; also C. Ballot, "Les Négociations de Lille," for an excellent account of these overtures and the European situation.
[464] See Pitt's letter of 16th June to the King and new letters of Grenville in "Pitt and Napoleon Miscellanies"; "Windham's Diary," 368; C. Ballot, op. cit., ch. v and App.; Luckwaldt (vice Huffer) "Quellen," pt ii, 153, 161, 176, 183.
[465] On 1st August 1797 Wilberforce wrote to Pitt a letter (the last part of which is quoted in Chapter XX of my former volume) urging him, even if the negotiation failed, to declare on what terms he would resume it. In Mr. Broadley's library is a letter of Lord Shelburne to Vergennes, dated 13th November 1782, which makes it clear that Pitt in 1782–3 was wholly against the surrender or the exchange of Gibraltar.
[466] Ballot, op. cit., 302, who corrects Thiers, Sorel, and Sciout on several points.
[467] "Dropmore P.," iii, 377, 380–2; "Malmesbury Diaries," iii, 590.
[468] "Parl. Hist.," xxxiii, 1076; "The Early Married Life of Lady Stanley," 149.
[469] Pitt MSS., 193. Mr. Abbott, afterwards Lord Colchester, differed from his patron, the Duke of Leeds, on this question. See "Lord Colchester's Diaries," i, 124–31.
[470] B.M. Add. MSS., 34454.