[169] Walpole: Last Journals.
[170] Mahon: History of England.
[171] "I had the fortune [at Paris] to be treated with the sight of what, next to Mr. Pitt, has occasioned most alarm in France, the Beast of the Gévandon."—Walpole to Lady Mary Coke, 1765.
[172] Lecky: History of England.
[173] In 1778 Sir George Saville introduced a Bill to enable Catholics in England who abjured the temporal jurisdiction of the Pope to purchase and inherit land, and to free their priests from liability to imprisonment. The outcome of this was the Gordon Riots.
[174] "My subjects! My army! My dominions! My colonies! the odds, however, even at St. James's are, that we shall hear no more of my colonies from the same quarter."—Note by the author of the lampoon.
[175] Peregrine the Elder: An Heroic Epistle to an Unfortunate Monarch.
[176] Correspondence of George III with Lord North.
[177] Last Journals, March, 1778.
[178] Albemarle: Memoirs of Rockingham.