[219] Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[220] Walpole: Last Journals.
[221] Recollections and Reflections.
[222] "The present King [George IV]," Lord Holland wrote, "told me a story of his father's plan of retiring to Hanover, and described, with more humour than filial reverence, his arrangement of the details, and especially of the liveries and dresses, about which he was so earnest that it amounted almost to insanity."—Memorials of Fox.
[223] Wraxall: Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[224] "It is said and believed that Lord Temple used the King's name and got many votes by it; even at the last critical moment, Lord Graham did all he could to bring the old Duke of Montrose to the House against the Bill; but the old soul nobly resisted, and told him he was too old to turn fool or knave, having as yet deserved neither of these epithets during a long life. But poor pitiful changelings who tremble at the King's name were soon found, and as you know they carried it on Wednesday."—Lady Sarah Napier to Lady Susan O'Brien, December 19.
[225] Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox.
[226] Quoted in Massey's History of the Reign of George III.
[227] Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[228] The Rolliad.