ed to her position of influence in
the affairs of Europe. Harris was created Baron Malmesbury as a reward
for his services at the Hague.

FOOTNOTES:

[186] George III. to Pitt, March 30, 1790, MS. Pitt Papers, 103.

[187] May, _Constitutional History_, i., 277-80, 321.

[188] George III. to Pitt, April 13 and May 1, 1784, MS. Pitt Papers,
103.

[189] George III. to Pitt, March 4, 1785, MS. Pitt Papers, 103, quoted
in Stanhope's _Life of Pitt_, i., App. xv.

[190] Pulteney to Rutland, Feb. 10, 1785, _Hist. MSS. Comm., Rutland
Papers_, iii., 177-78; Earl of Rosebery, _Pitt_, pp. 64-66.

[191] _Parl. Paper, Accounts_, xxxiii. (July, 1858).

[192] Rutland to Pitt, June 16, 1784, _Correspondence of Pitt and
Rutland_, p. 17; see also pp. 76-79.

[193] _Ibid._, p. 19.

[194] _Parl. Hist._, xxv., 586.

[195] Pitt to Rutland, Jan. 6, 1785, _Corr._, p. 73.

[196] Rutland to Pitt, June 16, 1784, _Corr._, p. 22.

[197] Pitt to Rutland, May 21, 1785, _Corr._, p. 105; Stanhope, _Life of
Pitt_, i., 275, 288-89.

[198] Count de Butenval in his _Precis du Traite de Commerce_, 1786,
endeavours to prove that in the initiation of negotiations Pitt was
acting in obedience to the will of Vergennes.

[199] F. Salomon, "England und der deutsche Furstenbund," _Historische
Vierteljahrsschrift_, 1903, ii., 221-42.

[200] Malmesbury, _Corr._, ii., 102-6, 112-15, 116-18.

[201] Carmarthen to Ewart, May 14, 1785, MS. Prussia, R.O.; _Political
Memoirs of the Duke of Leeds_, pp. 111-13; Salomon, _u.s._, pp. 231-33.

[202] Ewart to Carmarthen, May 26, 1785, MS. Prussia, R.O.

[203] Carmarthen to Fitzherbert, June 23, MS. Russia, Supplementary,
R.O.

[204] George III. to Pitt, August 7 and 10, 1785, with Woronzow's
(Vorontsov) statement, MS. Pitt Papers, 103, partially copied in
Stanhope's _Life of Pitt_, i., App. xviii.

[205] Cornwallis, _Corr._, i., 199-211.

[206] George III. to Pitt, Sept. 22, 1786, and Jan. 8, 1787, MS. Pitt
Papers, 103.

[207] Pitt to Eden, Sept. 14, 1787, _Auckland Corr._, i., 194-96; George
III. to Pitt, Sept. 16, MS. Pitt Papers, 103.

CHAPTER XV.

THE REGENCY QUESTION.

The affairs of India, which played so large a part in raising Pitt to
power, brought him a question fraught with embarrassment. Annoyed by
reproofs sent out by the directors, and harassed by opposition in his
council, by the independent attitude of the Madras gov