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[258] Duke of Buckingham: Court and Cabinets of George III.
[259] "Edmund Burke arose a little after four and is speaking yet. He has been wilder than ever, and laid himself and party open more than ever speaker did. He is folly personified, but shaking his cap and bells under the laurel of genius.... He finished his wild speech in a manner next to madness," so Sir W. Young wrote to Lord Buckingham; and, indeed, throughout the debates Burke, as Pitt put it scathingly, "displayed a warmth that seemed to have arisen from his entertaining wishes different from the rest of the House."
[260] Duke of Buckingham: Courts and Cabinets of George III.
[261] Papendiek: Court and Private Life.
[262] Ray: The Insanity of King George III.
[263] Georgiana.
[264] Diaries of a Lady of Quality. Edited by Abraham Hayward.
[265] Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, daughter of Charles, second Duke of Marlborough.
[266] Reminiscences of the fifth Earl of Carlisle.