Grenville); the letters of the last named are of much value;
they are supplemented by the _Dropmore MSS._ (see sec. 2). _Diaries and
Correspondence of the First Earl of Malmesbury_, 4 vols., 1844, edited
by the third earl, chiefly concerned with the foreign relations of Great
Britain; his despatches, letters, and journal while minister at St.
Petersburg, 1770-80, at the Hague, 1784-88, at Berlin, 1793, and during
his mission to Paris in 1796, and to Lille in 1797, are of first-rate
importance. In vol. ii. are reports of two conferences with the Prince
of Wales on the subject of his debts in 1785. Malmesbury (Sir James
Harris) was one of the Portland whigs, joined in their secession, and
was much trusted by Pitt. _Correspondence of Marquis Cornwallis_, 3
vols., 1859, well edited by C. Ross, has several letters relating to the
war with America, an account of his interview with Frederick of Prussia
in 1785, many despatches and letters written by him as governor-general
of India, 1786-92, and a large mass of correspondence during his
vice-royalty of Ireland, 1798-1801. _Journal and Correspondence of Lord
Auckland_, 4 vols., 1861-62, edited feebly by Lord Auckland, Bishop of
Bath and Wells. Auckland (Eden) was a personal friend of Pitt until
1801. His letters while ambassador at Paris, 1785-87; correspondence
relating to the regency question, 1788; his letters from the Hague,
1792-93; some on the course of the war, and those referring to the
recall of Fitzwilliam and to the catholic question in 1801, are to be
noted. He was chief secretary for Ireland in 1780, and was closely
allied with Beresford and the protestant ascendency party. _Political
Memoranda of the Duke of Leeds_, edited by Mr. O. Browning for the
Camden Soc., 1884, specially valuable for its account of the whig scheme
for a coalition in 1792. Also edited by Mr. Browning, _Despatches of
Earl Gower_, 1885. Gower was ambassador at Paris, 1790-92. Lady MINTO,
_Life of Sir Gilbert Elliot, afterwards Lord Minto, to 1806_, 3 vols.,
1874; vol. i. contains information as to the illness of the king and the
regency question; vol. ii. as to the secession of the Portland whigs;
Elliot, whose sister married Lord Auckland, and whose wife was a sister
of Lady Malmesbury, was one of the party. His letters, while he was
employed on a diplomatic mission at Toulon during the siege, as viceroy
of Corsica, at Naples, and as minister at Vienna, 1799-1801, are worthy
of attention. Sir