1 R.I. and S.W. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III, p.21
2 Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. I. p.331
3 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.184
4 Aspinall, The Later Correspondence of George III, Vol. III, p.xix
5 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.78
6 Rose to Pretyman, 18 October 1801, Pretyman Mss 435/44, quoted in Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.534
7 Pretyman to Rose, 27 August 1801, quoted in Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon.. George Rose, Vol. I, p.424
8 Diary, 19 March 1801, ibid., p.338
9 Ibid., p.215
10 Ibid., p.406
11 Coutts to Pitt, 22 February 1800, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/4, n18
12 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.363
13 Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.540n
14 Holland, Memoir of the Whig Party, Vol. I, p.175
15 Canning to Pitt, 28 August 1801, Rose, Pitt and Napoleon, pp.325–6, quoted in Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.225
16 Auckland, Journal and Correspondence. William Eden Auckland, Vol. IV, p.132
17 Dean Milman to Lewis, 27 January 1858, in Lewis, Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain from 1783 to 1830, p.272
18 Southey, Letters from England, April 1802, no. 12, p.75
19 Ziegler, Addington, p.111
20 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.321
21 Fremont-Barnes, The French Revolutionary Wars, p.84
22 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.360
23 Barnes, George III and William Pitt, P.398
24 Fremont-Bames, The French Revolutionary Wars, p.88
25 Malmesbury’s diary, 3 October 1801, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.62
26 Grenville to Tom Grenville, 25 February 1802, Grenville Papers, Vol. II, Add Mss 41852, fol.99, 100
27 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.208
28 Ibid., p.212
29 Festing, John Hookham Frere and His Friends, p.58
30 Pretyman Mss 108/44, 45, quoted in Reilly, Pitt the Younger, p.311
31 Pretyman to Rose, 23 December 1801, quoted in Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. I, p.442
32 Pitt to Canning, c.September 1801, Canning Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
33 Canning to Leveson Gower, 3 January 1802, Granville (ed.), Lord Granville Leveson Gower, First Earl Granville: Private Correspondence. 1781–1821, Vol. III, p.315
34 Pitt to Addington, 10 February 1802, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.369
35 Addington to Pitt, 11 February 1802, quoted in ibid., p.370
36 Ibid., p.379
37 Canning to Sneyd, 10 February 1802, Bagot, George Canning and His Friends, Vol. I, p.188
38 Pitt to Addington, 26 June 1802, quoted in Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. II, p.71
39 Canning to Frere, 27 August and 7 September 1802, quoted in Festing, John Hookham Frere and His Friends, p.86
40 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.33
41 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.393
42 Tomline, draft account for his Life of Pitt, BL Add Mss 45107
43 Grenville to Thomas Grenville, 19 October 1802, BL Add Mss 41852, fol.126
44 Ibid., fol.131
45 Pretyman to Rose, 11 November 1802, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.406
46 Ibid., p.426
47 Ibid., p.424
48 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.159
49 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.429
50 Ibid., p.421
51 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.119
52 Pitt to Rose, 28 January 1803, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. III, p.434
53 Ibid., pp.431–2
54 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, p.35
55 Fox Mss, BL Add Mss 47575, fol.23
56 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.20
57 Mellville (Dundas) to Addington, 22 March 1803, quoted in Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. II, p.116
58 Harcourt, Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.30
59 Melville (Dundas) to Pitt, Dacres Adams Mss, 16 June 1803, quoted in Ziegler, Addington, p.179
TWENTY-FIVE: The Old Addiction
1 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.309
2 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.52
3 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.38
4 Ibid., p.39
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid., p.40
7 Ziegler, Addington, p.178
8 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.40
9 Redesdale to Pitt, 16 April 1803, Chatham Papers, PRO 30/8/170, fol.200–1
10 George III, quoted in Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, pp.90, 92
11 Pitt to Addington, 15 April 1803, quoted in Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. II. p.123
12 Colchester’s diary, 19 April 1803, Colchester (ed.), The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, Vol. I, p.416
13 Wilberforce’s diary, 26 April 1803, quoted in R.I. and S.W. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III, pp.95–6
14 Creevey to Currie, 21 May 1803, Maxwell, The Creevey Papers, p.15
15 Pretyman Mss T108/42, quoted in Reilly, Pitt the Younger, p.321
16 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.47
17 Rt Hon. J.W. Ward to the Rev. E. Copleston, 30 May 1803, quoted in ibid., pp.48–9
18 Creevey to Currie, 24 May 1803, Maxwell, The Creevey Papers, p.15
19 Rt Hon. J.W. Ward to the Rev. E. Copleston, 30 May 1803, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.50
20 Malmesbury’s diary, 8 June 1803, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.270
21 George III to Addington, 4 June 1803, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.56
22 Canning to Leigh, 8 June 1803, Canning Mss 15, quoted in Hinde, George Canning, p.118
23 Malmesbury’s diary, 8 June 1803, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.270
24 Pitt to Dundas, 19 June 1803, Melville Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
25 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.52
26 Ibid., p.63
27 Ziegler, Addington, p.196
28 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, pp.35–6
29 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.47
30 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, pp.85–7
31 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, pp.52–3
32 Mulgrave to Phipps, 3 September 1803, quoted in Phipps, Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward, Vol. I, p.143
33 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.87
34 Haslip, Lady Hester Stanhope, p.44
35 Ibid.
36
Lord Mulgrave to Major General Phipps, Curzon, The Personal History of Walmer Castle and its Lords Warden, p.106
37 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.54
38 Undated, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/7, n53
39 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.70
40 Ibid., p.71
41 Pitt to Rose, 2 December 1803, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.102
42 Bryant, Years of Victory 1802–1812, p.77
43 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.65
44 Ibid., p.64
45 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, pp.56–7
46 Grenville to Pitt, 31 December 1803, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/4, m117
47 Grenville to Buckingham, Buckingham, Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III, Vol. III, p.342, quoted in Jupp, Lord Grenville, p.328
48 Pitt to Grenville, 4 February 1804, quoted in Fortescue, The Manuscripts of J.B. Fortescue, Esq., Preserved at Dropmore, Vol. V, p.213
49 Grenville to Pitt, 31 January 1804, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.116
50 Ibid., p.138
51 Pitt to Dundas, 29 March 1804, Melville Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
52 Fox to Lauderdale, BL Add Mss 47564, fol.184
53 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.59
54 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.260
55 Ibid.
56 15 March 1804, Parliamentary Debates, 1st Series, Vol. I, p.926
57 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.288
58 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.261
59 For the letter of acceptance see Pitt to Eldon, 20 March 1804, quoted in Twiss, The Private and Public Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, Vol. I, p.438
60 Pitt to Dundas, 11 April 1804, Melville Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
61 Pitt to Melville, 29 March 1804, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.142
62 Pitt to Dundas, 17 April 1804, Melville Mss, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
63 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.305
64 Ibid., p.310
65 Ibid., p.326
66 Earl Bathurst, ‘Negotiations between Pitt, Fox, Grenville and the King’, Report on the Manuscripts of Earl Bathurst, Preserved at Cirencester Park, P.34
67 23 April 1804, Colchester, The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, pp.496–7
68 Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.648
69 Melville to Pitt, 3 April 1804, Stanhope, Secret Correspondence connected with Mr Pitt’s return to Office in 1804, pp.20–1
70 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.116
71 George III, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/5, n16a
72 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.118
73 Pitt to George III, 6 May 1804, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.xii
74 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.122
75 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.171
76 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.125
77 Ibid., pp.127–8
78 Lord Eldon to Perceval, undated, Twiss, The Private and Public Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, Vol. I, p.449
TWENTY-SIX: Back, But Never the Same
1 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.361
2 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, pp.36–7
3 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.147
4 C.J. Fox to T. Coutts, 31 December 1805, Bodleian Library Mss North c.12, fol.8
5 20 May 1804, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.318
6 Wilberforce’s diary, 6 July 1804, quoted in R.I. and S.W. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III, p.187
7 Grey to Lady Grey, 8 May 1804, Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, p.137
8 Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.753n
9 Meryon (ed.), Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope …, p.65, quoted in Duffy, The Younger Pitt, p.220
10 Bruce, Life of General Sir William Napier, p.28
11 Ibid., pp.31–2
12 Ibid., p.32
13 Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.62
14 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.151
15 30 May 1804, Parliamentary Debates, 1st series, Vol. II, p.472
16 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.360
17 Ibid., p.361
18 Thiers, Vol. V, p.189, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.215
19 Ibid., p.225
20 Ibid.
21 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, pp.401–2
22 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, p.176
23 Ibid., p.156
24 24 December 1804, Colchester, The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester, p.538
25 Addington to his brother, Lord Ellenborough, the Speaker, and Mr Yorke, 24 December 1804, quoted in Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. II, p.331
26 Wilberforce’s diary, 1 February 1805, quoted in R.I. and S.W. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III
27 Addington to Hiley Addington, 6 October 1804, Sidmouth Mss, quoted in Ziegler, Addington, p.228
28 Hawkesbury to Addington, 19 December 1804, Sidmouth Mss, quoted in ibid., p.232
29 Moore, Sheridan, Vol. II, p.330
30 State Paper FO 65/60, fol.6–7 (originals are in Pitt’s hand and are in the Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/8)
31 Temperley, Foundations of British Foreign Policy, from Pitt–1792 to Salisbury–1902, p.9
32 Pitt to George III, quoted in Aspinall, The Later Correspondence of George III, Vol. II, no. 3014, p.283
33 Bishop of Bristol to Pitt, 8 February 1805; Pitt to Bishop of Bristol, 8 February 1805, Dacres Adams Manuscripts, formerly PRO 30/58/6, nos 24 and 25
34 Barnes, George III and William Pitt, p.455
35 Wilberforce’s diary, 18 March 1804, quoted in R.I. and S.W. Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III, p.218
36 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.423
37 Pitt to Coutts, 29 December 1785, Pitt Papers, William L. Clements Library, Michigan
38 J.W. Ward to Ivy, 9 April 1805, quoted in Romilly, Letters to Ivy from the First Earl of Dudley, p.27
39 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.281
40 Notebook of Lord Fitzharris, 1806, Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.355n
41 Rosebery, Letters Relating to the Love Episode of William Pitt, pp.36–7
TWENTY-SEVEN: Too Many Enemies
1 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.346
2 Grenville to Buckingham, 27 May 1805, Buckingham, Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III, Vol. III, p.422
3 Henry Addington to Hiley Addington, 16 April 1805, Sidmouth Mss 152M/C1805/OZ75
4 Sidmouth to Pitt, 22 April 1805, Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. II, p.358
5 Henry Addington to Hiley Addington, 28 April 1805, Sidmouth Mss 152M/C1805/OZ63
6 Hathawa
y, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.435
7 Ibid., p.461
8 Parliamentary Debates V, pp.418–19, quoted in Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.762
9 12 March 1805, quoted in MacDermot (ed.), The Diary of Denys Scully, pp.81, 86
10 Hathaway, The Speeches of the Right Honourable William Pitt …, Vol. IV, p.438
11 Ibid., p.441
12 Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.355
13 Ibid., p.347
14 7 November 1804, Farington, The Farington Diary, Vol. III, p.14
15 R.I. and S.W Wilberforce, The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. III, pp.232–3
16 Pretyman to Pitt, 4 July 1801, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/4, n40; Wellesley to Pitt, 1 January 1804, Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/5, n1; Malmesbury, Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury, Vol. IV, p.321
17 Lady Hester Stanhope to W.D. Adams, 1805, quoted in Cleveland, Life and Letters of Lady Hester Stanhope, p.65
18 Dacres Adams Mss, formerly PRO 30/58/7.56
19 Canning to Joan Canning, 9 July 1805, Canning Mss 20
20 Henry Addington to Hiley Addington, 1 July 1805, Sidmouth Mss 152M/C1805/OZ59
21 Sidmouth Mss, Mary Anne’s Notebook
22 Fox to O’Bryen, 7 July 1805, Russell, Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox, p.89
23 Marshall, The Rise of Canning, p.287
24 Harcourt, The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. George Rose, Vol. II, pp.199–200
25 Ibid., p.201
26 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.369
27 Pellew, The Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Addington, Vol. I, p.371
28 Sidmouth to Hiley Addington, 29 September 1805, quoted in Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.337
29 Pitt to Harrowby, 27 September 1805, Harrowby Mss XII, quoted in Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.805
30 Coleman, Nelson, p.314
31 Stanhope, Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Vol. IV, p.330
32 Notes by Pitt in 1805, Dacres Adams Mss 30/58/8, quoted in Ehrman, The Younger Pitt, Vol. III, p.797
33 25 October 1805, Diaries and Letters of Sir George Jackson, Vol. I, p.348
34 Fortescue, British Statesmen of the Great War, p.180
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