[42] "Lord Rockingham afterwards declared that he had never enjoyed such distinguished marks of the royal kindness as during a period when the influence of Great Britain was paralysed; every foreign capital had the knowledge that the existing Prime Minister would not remain in office ten minutes after a successor could be found for him."—Trevelyan: Early Life of Fox.

[43] Albemarle: Memoirs of Rockingham.

[44] Ibid.

[45] Bedford Correspondence.

[46] Basil Fielding, sixth Earl of Denbigh.

[47] Walpole: Memoirs of George III.

[48] Albemarle: Memoirs of Rockingham.

[49] Walpole: Memoirs of George III.

[50] Albemarle: Memoirs of Rockingham.

[51] Walpole: Memoirs of George III.