[Footnote 76:  “Parliamentary History,” xxiii., 163.]

[Footnote 77:  The divisions were:  224 to 208, and 207 to 190.]

[Footnote 78:  Lord Stanhope, quoting from an unpublished “Life of Lord Barrington,” compiled by the Bishop of Durham (meaning, I suppose, Bishop Shute Barrington).—­History of England, v., 174.]

[Footnote 79:  Even with the first flush of triumph, the night after the second defeat of Lord Shelburne in the House of Commons, Fox’s great friend, Mr. Fitzpatrick, writes to his brother, Lord Ossory:  “To the administration it is cila mors, but not victoria loeta to us.  The apparent juncture with Lord North is universally cried out against.”—­Lord J. Russell’s Memorials and Correspondence of C.J.  Fox, ii., 18.]

[Footnote 80:  Lord J. Russell’s “Memorials and Correspondence of C.J.  Fox,” ii., 90.]

[Footnote 81:  Ibid., p. 118.]

[Footnote 82:  In one division (161 to 137) they had only a majority of twenty-four.]

[Footnote 83:  In a letter to Lord Northington (Lord-lieutenant of Ireland), dated July 17, Fox himself mentions that not one of his colleagues, except the Duke of Portland and Lord Keppel (First Lord of the Admiralty), approved of it.—­Memoirs of Fox, ii., 116.]

[Footnote 84:  November 22 he writes to the Duke of Rutland:  “The bill ... is, I really think, the boldest and most unconstitutional measure ever attempted, transferring at one stroke, in spite of all charters and compacts, the immense patronage and influence of the East to Charles Fox, in or out of office.”—­Stanhope’s Life of Pitt, i., 140.]

[Footnote 85:  The whole paper is given by the Duke of Buckingham, “Courts and Cabinets of George III,” i., 288, and quoted by Lord Russell in his “Memorials and Correspondence of C. J. Fox,” ii., 251.  It is endorsed, “Delivered by Lord Thurlow, December 1, 1783.  Nugent Temple.”]

[Footnote 86:  “Life of Pitt,” i., 148.  Lord Stanhope does not pledge himself to these being “the exact words of this commission, but as to its purport and meaning there is no doubt.”  They are, however, the exact words quoted by Fox in his speech in support of Mr. Baker’s resolutions on the 17th.—­Parliamentary History, xxiv., 207.]

[Footnote 87:  “Parliamentary History,” xxiv., 151-154.]

[Footnote 88:  95 to 76.  “Strange to say, one of the cabinet ministers, Lord Stormont, president of the council, formed part of the final majority against the bill.”—­Life of Pitt, ii., 154.]

[Footnote 89:  “Life of Pitt,” i., 155.]

[Footnote 90:  “Lives of the Chancellors,” c. clix.  Lord Thurlow.]

[Footnote 91:  “The Grenville Papers,” iii., 374.  It may, however, be remarked, as tending to throw some doubt on Mr. Grenville’s statement, that Lord Campbell asserts that “Lord Mansfield, without entering into systematic opposition, had been much alienated from the court during Lord Rockingham’s first administration.”—­Lives of the Chief-justices, ii., 468.]