[871] Fonblanque, p. 333, and Almon's Remembrancer, vi. 207; but they do not agree upon the name of the vessel by which he sailed.
[872] Walpole (Last Journals, ii. 278) describes Burgoyne's appearance in the Commons.
[873] Cf. Bancroft's character of Burgoyne, in his orig. ed., vii. 245. Fonblanque (p. 5) charges Bancroft with coarseness in speaking of alleged but unfounded statements of Burgoyne's shame of birth. A certain swagger about the man laid Burgoyne open to the stinging burlesques of the small writers of the day. Cf. The Lamentations of Gen. Burgoyne (Sabin, iii. 9,262); Calendrier de Philadelphie, 1779 (Ibid. xiv. 61, 511), Moore's Songs and Ballads of the Rev. (176, 185, 189); Stone, Campaign of Burgoyne (App. xvi.).
[874] There were six editions printed in London, and one in Dublin, in 1778 (Sabin, iii. no. 9,257; Menzies, no. 264). These speeches were in response to a motion of inquiry made by John Wilkes, whose copy of this pamphlet belongs now to Mr. Charles Deane; and, by Wilkes's annotations upon it, it seems that Wilkes recalled a good deal that Burgoyne said and did not print, and qualified other parts which he did print.
[875] Sabin, iii. no. 9,257. There were six editions the same year. Menzies, no. 266.
[876] Sabin, iii. no. 9,266,—three editions; Menzies, no. 268.
[877] Sabin, iii. no. 9,263; Menzies, no. 267.
[878] Sabin, iii. no. 9,258; Menzies, no. 265.
[879] Sabin, iii. no. 9,260; Sparks's Catal., no. 405. Menzies, no. 272.
[880] Sabin, iii. no. 9,261; Menzies, no. 273.