N. W. WRAXALL, _Historical and Posthumous Memoirs_,
1772-84, 5 vols., 1884, carefully edited by Mr. H. B. Wheatley, diffuse
and amusing. Wraxall's inaccuracies, or worse, have been exaggerated,
and his work, which goes to 1789, together with some later
"reminiscences," is of value, specially as regards its portraiture of
public men of a secondary rank. Wraxall was a follower of North until
1783, and afterwards, until he resigned his seat in 1794, generally
supported Pitt. _Diaries and Correspondence of George Rose_, 2 vols.,
1860, edited by L. V. Harcourt. Rose was secretary to the treasury
during the whole of Pitt's first administration, and was intimate with
him. Vol. i. contains, among other matters, an account of Pitt's
resignation; vol. ii. has some reminiscences which the king communicated
to Rose in 1804. _The Diary and Correspondence of Abbot, Lord
Colchester_, edited by his son, 3 vols., 1861, vol. i. and PELLEW, _Life
of Lord Sidmouth_ (Addington), 3 vols., 1847, vol. i. should be
consulted for the circumstances of Pitt's retirement. Lord HOLLAND,
_Memoirs of the Whig Party_, 2 vols., 1852, edited by his son, Lord
Holland. As the writer was the nephew of Fox, who was much attached to
him, and by 1800 was himself a prominent member of the party, these
papers have great authority; many of them refer to events and persons
belonging to our period. Along with much else which does not concern
political history, the _Life of William Wilberforce_, by his sons, 5
vols., 1838, contains some interesting notices of public affairs before
1801, along with a record of Wilberforce's efforts in and out of
parliament for the abolition of the slave trade. See also _Private
Papers of W. Wilberforce_, 1897, with a character of Pitt by
Wilberforce.

(6) Miscellaneous books, pamphlets, etc. On public finance, see
HAMILTON, _Inquiry concerning ... the National Debt_, 1813; NEWMARCH,
_On the Loans Raised by Mr. Pitt_, 1793-1801, a highly valuable and
interesting treatise; _Parliamentary Report, Accounts_, xxxiii., 1858,
on the national debt, and S. DOWELL, _History of Taxation in England_, 4
vols., 1884. On the commercial treaty with France of 1786, see Count DE
BUTENVAL, _Precis du Traite de Commerce_, 1786, Paris, 1869, and
Auckland Corr. as above. Some of the articles by Sir G. C. LEWIS,
_Administrations of Great Britain_, 1783-1830, edited by Sir E. Head,
1864, are founded on Memoirs, etc., noted in sec. 5, and are excellent
comm