[142:1] This letter is not dated. It may be questioned whether it be either the one referred to in the preceding, or in the following letter by Hume.
[143:1] MS. R.S.E.
[144:1] MS. R.S.E.
[146:1] The alteration of the customs duties by the authority of the crown.
[146:2] The case of Sir George Markham, who was fined £10,000 in the Star-chamber, for rudeness to a peer, is not stated in the first edition. In the latest editions, the case is stated as it had been set down on Lansdowne's authority, and there is merely a note mentioning that Hobart gives a different account of it. See Hobart, p. 120.
[147:1] Minto MSS.
[147:2] MS. R.S.E.
[148:1] The quarrel between Wilkes and Armstrong excited much interest. They had been close friends, and Wilkes had advanced money to Armstrong in his need. The latter had ventured to pass a slight sarcasm on Churchill, who returned it ten-fold, taking Wilkes to his assistance, who abused Armstrong among the other Scots, in some letters in The Public Advertiser . A very amusing and dramatic dialogue between them will be found in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1782.
[148:2] MS. R.S.E.
[149:1] MS. R.S.E.