[171]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Nov. 20, 1745. Add. MSS. 32705.[172]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 292.[173]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 293.[174]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 142.[175]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 133.[176]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746.[177]Orford, i. 110. Walpole to Mann, April 2, 1750.[178]Cartwright to Pitt, Feb. 27, 1745 (Chatham MSS.). We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.'Hibernia, smile!Thrice happy isle,On thy blest groundTwelve thousand poundFor Stanhope's found,Three thousand clearFor Pitt a year;So shalt thou thrive,Industrious hive,While these and moreIncrease thy store.'Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.[179]Camelford.[180]Cf. Underwood MSS. (Hist. MSS.), p. 405.[181]He avowed this to Newcastle (Orford, George III. i. 82 note). But it was otherwise patent.[182]Parl. Hist. xiv. 103.[183]See the debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 204.[184]Gibbs' History of Aylesbury, 502.[185]Torrens says (History of Cabinets, ii. 119) that this speech was revised by Pitt, but gives no authority. Almon (i. 172) specifically declares that it was written by Gordon.[186]Parl. Hist. xiv. 502.[187]Grenville Papers, i. 93-5.[188]Parl. Hist. xiv. 664.[189]Parl. Hist. xiv. 692-6.[190]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 370.[191]Add. MSS. 32721.[192]July 20, 1750. Add. MSS. 32721.[193]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 131, 370.[194]Ib. ii. 396.[195]Parl. Hist. xiv. 801.[196]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 225, 359.[197]Parl. Hist. xiv. 967.[198]Stone to Newcastle, Feb. 22, 1750/1. Add. MSS. 32724.[199]Parl. Hist. xiv. 970.[200]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 144.[201]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 165.[202]Holland House MSS.[203]Colebrooke's Memoirs, i. 63.[204]Earl of Rochester. Ib. 73.[205]Wilkins, Political Ballads, ii. 312.[206]Parl. Hist. xv. 154.[207]September, 1749.[208]Almon, i. 195.[209]Pitt to Newcastle, July 25, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.[210]Pitt to Newcastle, March 6, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.[211]Feb. 11, o.s. 1751. Letters, ii. 97.[212]Climenson's Mrs. Montague, ii. 51. Kielmansegge's Diary, 131.[213]Meehan's Famous Houses of Bath, 112.[214]Meehan, 111.[215]Climenson.[216]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 235.[217]Memorials of Lord Gambier, i. 61. Cf. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 240.[218]Pitt to Newcastle. Tunbridge, Aug. 14, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.[219]Phillimore, 265.[220]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 388 n. See too Harris's Hardwicke, ii. 456.[221]Timbs, Anecdote Biography, 156, quoting from The Ambulator (1820).[222]Legge to Pitt. Berlin, July 10, 1748. Chatham MSS.[223]Climenson, ii. 9-10. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 181.[224]Nuthall to Lady Chatham, March 25, 1768. Chatham MSS.[225]Chatham to Nuthall, Oct. 7, 1772. Chatham MSS.[226]October 6, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.[227]October 13, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.[228]Pitt to Newcastle, March 7, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.[229]Grenville Papers, i. 109.[230]Ib. i. 111.[231]Pitt to Newcastle, March 11, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.[232]Murray.[233]This seems an allusion either to Leicester House, or, less probably, to Newcastle.[234]Grenville Papers, i. 106.[235]Granville Papers, i. 110.[236]Pitt was member for Aldborough, one of Newcastle's boroughs.[237]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 449.[238]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 453.[239]Grenville Papers, i. 112.[240]Add. MSS. 32734. f. 322.[241]Grenville Papers, i. 116.[242]Pitt to Newcastle, April 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32735. The more elaborate draft of this letter is given with a wrong date in the Chatham Corr. i. 85.[243]Chatham Corr. i. 89.[244]Chatham Corr. i. 95.[245]Add. MSS. 32735. f. 21.[246]Harris's Hardwicke, iii. 8.[247]The sense shows clearly that Pitt intended to write 'unwilling'.[248]Phillimore, 466.[249]Holland House MSS.[250]Holland House MSS.[251]H. Fox to Argyll, Sept. 26, 1755 (H.H. MSS.).[252]H. Fox to the Duke of Marlborough, March 22, 1754 (H.H. MSS.).[253]Wingfield MSS. 224b in Hist. MSS.[254]Walpole to Bentley, March 17, 1754.[255]Colebrooke, i. 18.[256]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 230.[257]Newcastle to Pitt, April 2, 1754, Chatham Corr.[258]Supra, p. 335.[259]Add. MSS. 32733. Pitt to Newcastle, April 22, 1754.[260]Bubb, 304.[261]Aug. 29, 1754. H.H. MSS.[262]Bubb, 317.[263]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.[264]Hardwicke to Newcastle, Oct. 3, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.[265]Orford, i. 78.[266]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, p. 154.[267]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 273.[268]Orford, i. 406-7.[269]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 26, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 146. Orford, i. 408. Cf. Calcraft to Digby, Nov. 26, 1754, in Wingfield MSS.[270]Butler's Rem. i. 144.[271]Waldegrave, 149-50[272]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 28, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 150. Orford, i. 142.[273]Butler's Reminiscences, i. 145.[274]Table Talk of S. Rogers, p. 100.[275]Orford, i. 417.[276]Ib. 418.[277]See Pitt's obscure note in Chatham Corresp. i. 130, and the interpretation in Orford, i. 419.[278]Orford, i. 420.[279]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 406.[280]Bubb, 319-21. Orford, ii. 37.[281]The accession of Fox to the Cabinet is beset with small difficulties of chronology. Horace Walpole in his Memoirs (i. 147) tells us that the King sent for Fox on November 29, 1754, and in a letter of January 9, 1755, announces that Fox had been admitted to the Cabinet. Yet we have Fox's own letter to Pitt of April 26, 1755, announcing that the King that afternoon had signified to him his admission to the Cabinet. (Chatham Corresp. i. 132). It is evident that Horace Walpole believed, prematurely, that the matter was settled early in January. Strangely enough our surest authority in all these transactions, except Waldegrave, who is vague and dateless, is the corrupt and perfidious Bubb.[282]Thackeray gives a different account of this interview and of that with Charles Yorke, we know not whence derived. The account in the text is that of Charles Yorke and Hardwicke themselves (Harris, iii. 29-34) and in part Bubb, on the authority of James Grenville (p. 340).[283]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 3, 1755. Add. MSS. 32858. See too Orford, ii. 40.[284]Add. MSS. 32858.[285]These two sentences are transposed for the sake of clearness.[286]Italics ours.[287]Italics ours.[288]There was some family connection between Bubb and the Grenvilles, though it is not easy to trace. Bubb's property indeed, to his disgust, was entailed on Temple.[289]Bubb, 370.[290]Add. MSS. 32859, f. 86.[291]Orford, ii. 45.[292]Orford, ii. 7-9.[293]Orford, ii. 17.[294]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 483.[295]Ib. i. 510.[296]Ib. i. 54, 66.[297]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 214-26.[298]Souvenirs de Moreau, i. 62.[299]Moreau, i. 58.[300]Waddington. Louis XV. et le Renversement des Alliances, pp. 471-6.[301]Baumer, Frederick II. and his Times, 227.[302]Ibid. 233.[303]Carlyle, Frederick, iv. 509.[304]Orford, ii. 55-62.[305]Fox to Ellis. Holland House MSS.[306]Camelford.[307]Walpole here professes to give Pitt's words exactly.[308]I.e., suppose any man should have purposely put off bringing hither troops from Ireland, with the object of making this country appear so unprotected as to require foreign mercenaries.[309]Orford, ii. 67-76.[310]Parl. Hist. xv. 544-616.[311]Bedford Corr. ii. 179.[312]Bedford Corr. ii. 180.[313]Orford, ii. 86-97.[314]Orford, ii. 98-101.[315]Orford, ii. 107.[316]Holland House MSS.[317]Orford, ii. 135-9.[318]Orford says that Sackville moved for them on April 29. The Parliamentary History says that Fox moved for them on March 29 (xv. 702).[319]Parl. Hist. xv. 702.[320]Orford, ii. 185-6.[321]Orford, ii. 188-90.[322]Orford, ii. 193-7.[323]The Consul at Genoa had warned Newcastle early in February that a surprise attack on Minorca was meditated. Mr. Corbett, who states this, (England in the Seven Years War, i. 97) excuses Newcastle for neglecting the information, one does not see why. More attention was paid to an intercepted despatch of the Swedish minister at Paris, dated February 25, 1756.[324]Walpole to Chute, June 8, 1756.[325]'So also we find it recorded during the siege of Malta, that some hesitation having displayed itself on the part of the slaves in exposing themselves, during their pioneering labours, to a fire more than ordinarily deadly, the Grand Master directed some to be hanged and others to have their ears cut off, "pour encourager les autres" as the chroniclers quaintly and simply record.' Porter's 'History of the Knights of Malta,' ii. 272.[326]Fox to Ellis, July 12, 1756. Holland House MSS.[327]Chatham Corr. i. 158.[328]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 413.[329]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 2, 1756. Add. MSS. 35416.[330]Fox to Kildare. This, an undated narrative among the Holland House MSS., seems to me the best statement from Fox's point of view. From Lord Kildare's reply it is evident that it was written and despatched towards the end of Nov. 1756.[331]Narrative to Kildare.[332]Fox to Stone, October 7, 1756. Holland House MSS.[333]Ib.[334]Fox to Ellis. H.H. MSS., Oct. 12, 1756.[335]Newcastle to Fox, Oct. 12, 1756. H.H. MSS.[336]Newcastle to Lady Yarmouth, Oct. 13. Add. MSS. 32868.[337]Fox to Digby, Oct. 1756. Wingfield MSS. in Hist. MSS.[338]Orford, ii. 253.[339]Narrative to Kildare.
[171]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Nov. 20, 1745. Add. MSS. 32705.
[171]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Nov. 20, 1745. Add. MSS. 32705.
[172]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 292.
[172]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 292.
[173]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 293.
[173]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 293.
[174]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 142.
[174]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 142.
[175]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 133.
[175]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 133.
[176]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746.
[176]Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746.
[177]Orford, i. 110. Walpole to Mann, April 2, 1750.
[177]Orford, i. 110. Walpole to Mann, April 2, 1750.
[178]Cartwright to Pitt, Feb. 27, 1745 (Chatham MSS.). We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.'Hibernia, smile!Thrice happy isle,On thy blest groundTwelve thousand poundFor Stanhope's found,Three thousand clearFor Pitt a year;So shalt thou thrive,Industrious hive,While these and moreIncrease thy store.'Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.
[178]Cartwright to Pitt, Feb. 27, 1745 (Chatham MSS.). We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.
'Hibernia, smile!Thrice happy isle,On thy blest groundTwelve thousand poundFor Stanhope's found,Three thousand clearFor Pitt a year;So shalt thou thrive,Industrious hive,While these and moreIncrease thy store.'Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.
'Hibernia, smile!Thrice happy isle,On thy blest groundTwelve thousand poundFor Stanhope's found,Three thousand clearFor Pitt a year;So shalt thou thrive,Industrious hive,While these and moreIncrease thy store.'Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.
[179]Camelford.
[179]Camelford.
[180]Cf. Underwood MSS. (Hist. MSS.), p. 405.
[180]Cf. Underwood MSS. (Hist. MSS.), p. 405.
[181]He avowed this to Newcastle (Orford, George III. i. 82 note). But it was otherwise patent.
[181]He avowed this to Newcastle (Orford, George III. i. 82 note). But it was otherwise patent.
[182]Parl. Hist. xiv. 103.
[182]Parl. Hist. xiv. 103.
[183]See the debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 204.
[183]See the debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 204.
[184]Gibbs' History of Aylesbury, 502.
[184]Gibbs' History of Aylesbury, 502.
[185]Torrens says (History of Cabinets, ii. 119) that this speech was revised by Pitt, but gives no authority. Almon (i. 172) specifically declares that it was written by Gordon.
[185]Torrens says (History of Cabinets, ii. 119) that this speech was revised by Pitt, but gives no authority. Almon (i. 172) specifically declares that it was written by Gordon.
[186]Parl. Hist. xiv. 502.
[186]Parl. Hist. xiv. 502.
[187]Grenville Papers, i. 93-5.
[187]Grenville Papers, i. 93-5.
[188]Parl. Hist. xiv. 664.
[188]Parl. Hist. xiv. 664.
[189]Parl. Hist. xiv. 692-6.
[189]Parl. Hist. xiv. 692-6.
[190]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 370.
[190]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 370.
[191]Add. MSS. 32721.
[191]Add. MSS. 32721.
[192]July 20, 1750. Add. MSS. 32721.
[192]July 20, 1750. Add. MSS. 32721.
[193]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 131, 370.
[193]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 131, 370.
[194]Ib. ii. 396.
[194]Ib. ii. 396.
[195]Parl. Hist. xiv. 801.
[195]Parl. Hist. xiv. 801.
[196]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 225, 359.
[196]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 225, 359.
[197]Parl. Hist. xiv. 967.
[197]Parl. Hist. xiv. 967.
[198]Stone to Newcastle, Feb. 22, 1750/1. Add. MSS. 32724.
[198]Stone to Newcastle, Feb. 22, 1750/1. Add. MSS. 32724.
[199]Parl. Hist. xiv. 970.
[199]Parl. Hist. xiv. 970.
[200]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 144.
[200]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 144.
[201]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 165.
[201]Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 165.
[202]Holland House MSS.
[202]Holland House MSS.
[203]Colebrooke's Memoirs, i. 63.
[203]Colebrooke's Memoirs, i. 63.
[204]Earl of Rochester. Ib. 73.
[204]Earl of Rochester. Ib. 73.
[205]Wilkins, Political Ballads, ii. 312.
[205]Wilkins, Political Ballads, ii. 312.
[206]Parl. Hist. xv. 154.
[206]Parl. Hist. xv. 154.
[207]September, 1749.
[207]September, 1749.
[208]Almon, i. 195.
[208]Almon, i. 195.
[209]Pitt to Newcastle, July 25, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.
[209]Pitt to Newcastle, July 25, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.
[210]Pitt to Newcastle, March 6, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[210]Pitt to Newcastle, March 6, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[211]Feb. 11, o.s. 1751. Letters, ii. 97.
[211]Feb. 11, o.s. 1751. Letters, ii. 97.
[212]Climenson's Mrs. Montague, ii. 51. Kielmansegge's Diary, 131.
[212]Climenson's Mrs. Montague, ii. 51. Kielmansegge's Diary, 131.
[213]Meehan's Famous Houses of Bath, 112.
[213]Meehan's Famous Houses of Bath, 112.
[214]Meehan, 111.
[214]Meehan, 111.
[215]Climenson.
[215]Climenson.
[216]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 235.
[216]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 235.
[217]Memorials of Lord Gambier, i. 61. Cf. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 240.
[217]Memorials of Lord Gambier, i. 61. Cf. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 240.
[218]Pitt to Newcastle. Tunbridge, Aug. 14, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.
[218]Pitt to Newcastle. Tunbridge, Aug. 14, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.
[219]Phillimore, 265.
[219]Phillimore, 265.
[220]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 388 n. See too Harris's Hardwicke, ii. 456.
[220]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 388 n. See too Harris's Hardwicke, ii. 456.
[221]Timbs, Anecdote Biography, 156, quoting from The Ambulator (1820).
[221]Timbs, Anecdote Biography, 156, quoting from The Ambulator (1820).
[222]Legge to Pitt. Berlin, July 10, 1748. Chatham MSS.
[222]Legge to Pitt. Berlin, July 10, 1748. Chatham MSS.
[223]Climenson, ii. 9-10. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 181.
[223]Climenson, ii. 9-10. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 181.
[224]Nuthall to Lady Chatham, March 25, 1768. Chatham MSS.
[224]Nuthall to Lady Chatham, March 25, 1768. Chatham MSS.
[225]Chatham to Nuthall, Oct. 7, 1772. Chatham MSS.
[225]Chatham to Nuthall, Oct. 7, 1772. Chatham MSS.
[226]October 6, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.
[226]October 6, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.
[227]October 13, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.
[227]October 13, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.
[228]Pitt to Newcastle, March 7, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[228]Pitt to Newcastle, March 7, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[229]Grenville Papers, i. 109.
[229]Grenville Papers, i. 109.
[230]Ib. i. 111.
[230]Ib. i. 111.
[231]Pitt to Newcastle, March 11, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[231]Pitt to Newcastle, March 11, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.
[232]Murray.
[232]Murray.
[233]This seems an allusion either to Leicester House, or, less probably, to Newcastle.
[233]This seems an allusion either to Leicester House, or, less probably, to Newcastle.
[234]Grenville Papers, i. 106.
[234]Grenville Papers, i. 106.
[235]Granville Papers, i. 110.
[235]Granville Papers, i. 110.
[236]Pitt was member for Aldborough, one of Newcastle's boroughs.
[236]Pitt was member for Aldborough, one of Newcastle's boroughs.
[237]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 449.
[237]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 449.
[238]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 453.
[238]Phillimore's Lyttelton, 453.
[239]Grenville Papers, i. 112.
[239]Grenville Papers, i. 112.
[240]Add. MSS. 32734. f. 322.
[240]Add. MSS. 32734. f. 322.
[241]Grenville Papers, i. 116.
[241]Grenville Papers, i. 116.
[242]Pitt to Newcastle, April 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32735. The more elaborate draft of this letter is given with a wrong date in the Chatham Corr. i. 85.
[242]Pitt to Newcastle, April 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32735. The more elaborate draft of this letter is given with a wrong date in the Chatham Corr. i. 85.
[243]Chatham Corr. i. 89.
[243]Chatham Corr. i. 89.
[244]Chatham Corr. i. 95.
[244]Chatham Corr. i. 95.
[245]Add. MSS. 32735. f. 21.
[245]Add. MSS. 32735. f. 21.
[246]Harris's Hardwicke, iii. 8.
[246]Harris's Hardwicke, iii. 8.
[247]The sense shows clearly that Pitt intended to write 'unwilling'.
[247]The sense shows clearly that Pitt intended to write 'unwilling'.
[248]Phillimore, 466.
[248]Phillimore, 466.
[249]Holland House MSS.
[249]Holland House MSS.
[250]Holland House MSS.
[250]Holland House MSS.
[251]H. Fox to Argyll, Sept. 26, 1755 (H.H. MSS.).
[251]H. Fox to Argyll, Sept. 26, 1755 (H.H. MSS.).
[252]H. Fox to the Duke of Marlborough, March 22, 1754 (H.H. MSS.).
[252]H. Fox to the Duke of Marlborough, March 22, 1754 (H.H. MSS.).
[253]Wingfield MSS. 224b in Hist. MSS.
[253]Wingfield MSS. 224b in Hist. MSS.
[254]Walpole to Bentley, March 17, 1754.
[254]Walpole to Bentley, March 17, 1754.
[255]Colebrooke, i. 18.
[255]Colebrooke, i. 18.
[256]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 230.
[256]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 230.
[257]Newcastle to Pitt, April 2, 1754, Chatham Corr.
[257]Newcastle to Pitt, April 2, 1754, Chatham Corr.
[258]Supra, p. 335.
[258]Supra, p. 335.
[259]Add. MSS. 32733. Pitt to Newcastle, April 22, 1754.
[259]Add. MSS. 32733. Pitt to Newcastle, April 22, 1754.
[260]Bubb, 304.
[260]Bubb, 304.
[261]Aug. 29, 1754. H.H. MSS.
[261]Aug. 29, 1754. H.H. MSS.
[262]Bubb, 317.
[262]Bubb, 317.
[263]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.
[263]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.
[264]Hardwicke to Newcastle, Oct. 3, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.
[264]Hardwicke to Newcastle, Oct. 3, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.
[265]Orford, i. 78.
[265]Orford, i. 78.
[266]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, p. 154.
[266]An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, p. 154.
[267]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 273.
[267]Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 273.
[268]Orford, i. 406-7.
[268]Orford, i. 406-7.
[269]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 26, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 146. Orford, i. 408. Cf. Calcraft to Digby, Nov. 26, 1754, in Wingfield MSS.
[269]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 26, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 146. Orford, i. 408. Cf. Calcraft to Digby, Nov. 26, 1754, in Wingfield MSS.
[270]Butler's Rem. i. 144.
[270]Butler's Rem. i. 144.
[271]Waldegrave, 149-50
[271]Waldegrave, 149-50
[272]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 28, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 150. Orford, i. 142.
[272]Fox to Hartington, Nov. 28, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 150. Orford, i. 142.
[273]Butler's Reminiscences, i. 145.
[273]Butler's Reminiscences, i. 145.
[274]Table Talk of S. Rogers, p. 100.
[274]Table Talk of S. Rogers, p. 100.
[275]Orford, i. 417.
[275]Orford, i. 417.
[276]Ib. 418.
[276]Ib. 418.
[277]See Pitt's obscure note in Chatham Corresp. i. 130, and the interpretation in Orford, i. 419.
[277]See Pitt's obscure note in Chatham Corresp. i. 130, and the interpretation in Orford, i. 419.
[278]Orford, i. 420.
[278]Orford, i. 420.
[279]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 406.
[279]Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 406.
[280]Bubb, 319-21. Orford, ii. 37.
[280]Bubb, 319-21. Orford, ii. 37.
[281]The accession of Fox to the Cabinet is beset with small difficulties of chronology. Horace Walpole in his Memoirs (i. 147) tells us that the King sent for Fox on November 29, 1754, and in a letter of January 9, 1755, announces that Fox had been admitted to the Cabinet. Yet we have Fox's own letter to Pitt of April 26, 1755, announcing that the King that afternoon had signified to him his admission to the Cabinet. (Chatham Corresp. i. 132). It is evident that Horace Walpole believed, prematurely, that the matter was settled early in January. Strangely enough our surest authority in all these transactions, except Waldegrave, who is vague and dateless, is the corrupt and perfidious Bubb.
[281]The accession of Fox to the Cabinet is beset with small difficulties of chronology. Horace Walpole in his Memoirs (i. 147) tells us that the King sent for Fox on November 29, 1754, and in a letter of January 9, 1755, announces that Fox had been admitted to the Cabinet. Yet we have Fox's own letter to Pitt of April 26, 1755, announcing that the King that afternoon had signified to him his admission to the Cabinet. (Chatham Corresp. i. 132). It is evident that Horace Walpole believed, prematurely, that the matter was settled early in January. Strangely enough our surest authority in all these transactions, except Waldegrave, who is vague and dateless, is the corrupt and perfidious Bubb.
[282]Thackeray gives a different account of this interview and of that with Charles Yorke, we know not whence derived. The account in the text is that of Charles Yorke and Hardwicke themselves (Harris, iii. 29-34) and in part Bubb, on the authority of James Grenville (p. 340).
[282]Thackeray gives a different account of this interview and of that with Charles Yorke, we know not whence derived. The account in the text is that of Charles Yorke and Hardwicke themselves (Harris, iii. 29-34) and in part Bubb, on the authority of James Grenville (p. 340).
[283]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 3, 1755. Add. MSS. 32858. See too Orford, ii. 40.
[283]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 3, 1755. Add. MSS. 32858. See too Orford, ii. 40.
[284]Add. MSS. 32858.
[284]Add. MSS. 32858.
[285]These two sentences are transposed for the sake of clearness.
[285]These two sentences are transposed for the sake of clearness.
[286]Italics ours.
[286]Italics ours.
[287]Italics ours.
[287]Italics ours.
[288]There was some family connection between Bubb and the Grenvilles, though it is not easy to trace. Bubb's property indeed, to his disgust, was entailed on Temple.
[288]There was some family connection between Bubb and the Grenvilles, though it is not easy to trace. Bubb's property indeed, to his disgust, was entailed on Temple.
[289]Bubb, 370.
[289]Bubb, 370.
[290]Add. MSS. 32859, f. 86.
[290]Add. MSS. 32859, f. 86.
[291]Orford, ii. 45.
[291]Orford, ii. 45.
[292]Orford, ii. 7-9.
[292]Orford, ii. 7-9.
[293]Orford, ii. 17.
[293]Orford, ii. 17.
[294]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 483.
[294]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 483.
[295]Ib. i. 510.
[295]Ib. i. 510.
[296]Ib. i. 54, 66.
[296]Ib. i. 54, 66.
[297]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 214-26.
[297]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 214-26.
[298]Souvenirs de Moreau, i. 62.
[298]Souvenirs de Moreau, i. 62.
[299]Moreau, i. 58.
[299]Moreau, i. 58.
[300]Waddington. Louis XV. et le Renversement des Alliances, pp. 471-6.
[300]Waddington. Louis XV. et le Renversement des Alliances, pp. 471-6.
[301]Baumer, Frederick II. and his Times, 227.
[301]Baumer, Frederick II. and his Times, 227.
[302]Ibid. 233.
[302]Ibid. 233.
[303]Carlyle, Frederick, iv. 509.
[303]Carlyle, Frederick, iv. 509.
[304]Orford, ii. 55-62.
[304]Orford, ii. 55-62.
[305]Fox to Ellis. Holland House MSS.
[305]Fox to Ellis. Holland House MSS.
[306]Camelford.
[306]Camelford.
[307]Walpole here professes to give Pitt's words exactly.
[307]Walpole here professes to give Pitt's words exactly.
[308]I.e., suppose any man should have purposely put off bringing hither troops from Ireland, with the object of making this country appear so unprotected as to require foreign mercenaries.
[308]I.e., suppose any man should have purposely put off bringing hither troops from Ireland, with the object of making this country appear so unprotected as to require foreign mercenaries.
[309]Orford, ii. 67-76.
[309]Orford, ii. 67-76.
[310]Parl. Hist. xv. 544-616.
[310]Parl. Hist. xv. 544-616.
[311]Bedford Corr. ii. 179.
[311]Bedford Corr. ii. 179.
[312]Bedford Corr. ii. 180.
[312]Bedford Corr. ii. 180.
[313]Orford, ii. 86-97.
[313]Orford, ii. 86-97.
[314]Orford, ii. 98-101.
[314]Orford, ii. 98-101.
[315]Orford, ii. 107.
[315]Orford, ii. 107.
[316]Holland House MSS.
[316]Holland House MSS.
[317]Orford, ii. 135-9.
[317]Orford, ii. 135-9.
[318]Orford says that Sackville moved for them on April 29. The Parliamentary History says that Fox moved for them on March 29 (xv. 702).
[318]Orford says that Sackville moved for them on April 29. The Parliamentary History says that Fox moved for them on March 29 (xv. 702).
[319]Parl. Hist. xv. 702.
[319]Parl. Hist. xv. 702.
[320]Orford, ii. 185-6.
[320]Orford, ii. 185-6.
[321]Orford, ii. 188-90.
[321]Orford, ii. 188-90.
[322]Orford, ii. 193-7.
[322]Orford, ii. 193-7.
[323]The Consul at Genoa had warned Newcastle early in February that a surprise attack on Minorca was meditated. Mr. Corbett, who states this, (England in the Seven Years War, i. 97) excuses Newcastle for neglecting the information, one does not see why. More attention was paid to an intercepted despatch of the Swedish minister at Paris, dated February 25, 1756.
[323]The Consul at Genoa had warned Newcastle early in February that a surprise attack on Minorca was meditated. Mr. Corbett, who states this, (England in the Seven Years War, i. 97) excuses Newcastle for neglecting the information, one does not see why. More attention was paid to an intercepted despatch of the Swedish minister at Paris, dated February 25, 1756.
[324]Walpole to Chute, June 8, 1756.
[324]Walpole to Chute, June 8, 1756.
[325]'So also we find it recorded during the siege of Malta, that some hesitation having displayed itself on the part of the slaves in exposing themselves, during their pioneering labours, to a fire more than ordinarily deadly, the Grand Master directed some to be hanged and others to have their ears cut off, "pour encourager les autres" as the chroniclers quaintly and simply record.' Porter's 'History of the Knights of Malta,' ii. 272.
[325]'So also we find it recorded during the siege of Malta, that some hesitation having displayed itself on the part of the slaves in exposing themselves, during their pioneering labours, to a fire more than ordinarily deadly, the Grand Master directed some to be hanged and others to have their ears cut off, "pour encourager les autres" as the chroniclers quaintly and simply record.' Porter's 'History of the Knights of Malta,' ii. 272.
[326]Fox to Ellis, July 12, 1756. Holland House MSS.
[326]Fox to Ellis, July 12, 1756. Holland House MSS.
[327]Chatham Corr. i. 158.
[327]Chatham Corr. i. 158.
[328]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 413.
[328]'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 413.
[329]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 2, 1756. Add. MSS. 35416.
[329]Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 2, 1756. Add. MSS. 35416.
[330]Fox to Kildare. This, an undated narrative among the Holland House MSS., seems to me the best statement from Fox's point of view. From Lord Kildare's reply it is evident that it was written and despatched towards the end of Nov. 1756.
[330]Fox to Kildare. This, an undated narrative among the Holland House MSS., seems to me the best statement from Fox's point of view. From Lord Kildare's reply it is evident that it was written and despatched towards the end of Nov. 1756.
[331]Narrative to Kildare.
[331]Narrative to Kildare.
[332]Fox to Stone, October 7, 1756. Holland House MSS.
[332]Fox to Stone, October 7, 1756. Holland House MSS.
[333]Ib.
[333]Ib.
[334]Fox to Ellis. H.H. MSS., Oct. 12, 1756.
[334]Fox to Ellis. H.H. MSS., Oct. 12, 1756.
[335]Newcastle to Fox, Oct. 12, 1756. H.H. MSS.
[335]Newcastle to Fox, Oct. 12, 1756. H.H. MSS.
[336]Newcastle to Lady Yarmouth, Oct. 13. Add. MSS. 32868.
[336]Newcastle to Lady Yarmouth, Oct. 13. Add. MSS. 32868.
[337]Fox to Digby, Oct. 1756. Wingfield MSS. in Hist. MSS.
[337]Fox to Digby, Oct. 1756. Wingfield MSS. in Hist. MSS.
[338]Orford, ii. 253.
[338]Orford, ii. 253.
[339]Narrative to Kildare.
[339]Narrative to Kildare.