The history of England, from the accession of George III. to the close of Pitt's first administration, 1760-1801

by William Hunt

[190] Pulteney to Rutland, Feb. 10, 1785, Hist. MSS. Comm., Rutland Papers, iii., 177-78; Earl of Rosebery, Pitt, pp. 64-66.

[191] Parl. Paper, Accounts, xxxiii. (July, 1858).

[192] Rutland to Pitt, June 16, 1784, Correspondence of Pitt and Rutland, p. 17; see also pp. 76-79.

[193] Ibid., p. 19.

[194] Parl. Hist., xxv., 586.

[195] Pitt to Rutland, Jan. 6, 1785, Corr., p. 73.

[196] Rutland to Pitt, June 16, 1784, Corr., p. 22.

[197] Pitt to Rutland, May 21, 1785, Corr., p. 105; Stanhope, Life of Pitt, i., 275, 288-89.

[198] Count de Butenval in his Précis du Traité de Commerce, 1786, endeavours to prove that in the initiation of negotiations Pitt was acting in obedience to the will of Vergennes.

[199] F. Salomon, "England und der deutsche Fürstenbund," Historische Vierteljahrsschrift, 1903, ii., 221-42.