[81] His first wife having divorced him, he married a daughter of the Rev. Richard Wriothesley.
[82] Nicholls: Recollections, Personal and Political.
[83] "The account of the Cabinet Council being put off—first for a match at Newmarket, and secondly because the Duke of Grafton had company in his house—exhibits a lively picture of the present administration."—George Grenville to Whately, October 20, 1767.
[84] Letter signed "Philo-Junius," June 22, 1769.
[85] "At length the clouds which had gathered over his mind broke and passed away. His gout returned, and freed him from a more cruel malady. His nerves were newly braced. His spirits became buoyant. He woke as from a sickly dream. It was a strange recovery. Men had been in the habit of talking of him as of one dead, and, when he first showed himself at the King's levée, started as if they had seen a ghost. It was more than two years and a half since he had appeared in public."—Macaulay: The Earl of Chatham.
[86] See ante vol. I, pp. 266-7.
[87] Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[88] "We have independent mobs that have nothing to do with Wilkes, and who only take advantage of so favourable a season. The dearness of provisions incites—the hope of increase of wages allures—and drink puts them in motion. The coal-heavers began; and it is well it is not a hard frost, for they have stopped all coals coming to town. The sawyers rose, too, and at last the sailors, who have committed great outrages in merchant-ships and prevented their sailing."—Horace Walpole, May, 1768.
[89] Lord Camden was a poor man, and would have been much inconvenienced by his dismissal, had not Chatham earlier secured to him a pension of £1,500.
[90] Albemarle: Memoirs of Rockingham.