[140] Recollections and Reflections.
[141] Correspondence between George III and Lord North.
[142] "Peregrine the Elder": An Heroic Epistle to an Unfortunate Monarch. 1778.
Other squibs will be found in the present writer's The First Gentleman of Europe, where the text of the Royal Marriage Act is given, à propos of the union of the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert.
[143] William Frederick succeeded his father as Duke of Gloucester, 1805; married Princess Mary, fourth daughter of George III, 1816.
[144] "In their boyhood each had manifested that serious, reserved and pious disposition which happily preserved them from plunging into those youthful irregularities which subsequently disgraced the careers of their brothers, the Dukes of York and Cumberland. Each had suffered from the effects of a faulty education; each, on reaching manhood, had happily had the sagacity to appreciate the grievous disadvantage which it imposed upon them, and each, by diligent study, had endeavoured to make up for the faults and deficiencies of the past."—Jesse: Memoirs of George III.
[145] Wraxall: Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[146] Memoirs of George III.
[147] Thackeray: Life of Chatham.
[148] Adolphus: History of England.