[18] The American Journal of Ambrose Serle ... 1776-1778, ed. Edward H. Tatum, Jr., San Marino, California, 1940, p. 296.
[19] Walpole, Last Journals, II, 117; Fox, Speeches, 1815, I, 116-118.
[20] Letters, ed. Toynbee, X, 195.
[21] Private Letters, I, 338.
[22] Last Journals, II, 115n. In a debate on the navy estimates, 2 December 1778, Temple Luttrell said of North:
Whenever the noble lord found himself closely pressed in argument, or fact, it was his known practice to get rid of the question by a joke. His manner was no less curious than his matter; when he was half asleep, or seemingly quite asleep, he collected a store of wit and humour, from Æsop, Phædrus, or Joe Miller, or some other book equally distinguished for such species of drollery; and, instead of reasoning, was sure to treat the House with a laugh (The Parliamentary History of England ... to the Year 1803 [compiled by William Cobbett], 1806-20, XIX, 1388).
[23] John Taylor, Records of My Life, 1832, I, 144.
[24] Last Journals, II, 206.
[25] Altercation; Being the Substance of a Debate ... on a Motion to Censure the Pamphlet of Anticipation [1778], p. 10; The Pamphleteer, XIX, 1822, 310.