[421] They were, after all, never appropriated to that purpose.
[422] The interests of commerce were too much at variance with this great cause of humanity not to oppose a long and persevering resistance to its progress in parliament. Though Mr. Pitt supported the measure, it was not made a government question.
[423] Thoughts on the Manners of the Great.
[424] Private correspondence.
[425] Private correspondence.
[426] For his version of Homer.
[427] Mr. Gregson was chaplain to Mr. Throckmorton.
[428] He alludes to engravings of these two characters, which had acquired much popularity with the public, especially Crazy Kate, beginning,
"There often wanders one, whom better days," &c. &c.
[429] Mrs. Montagu.