the
eyes of Europe. The despicable proceedings of the national assembly
saved England from a war, and dissolved the alliance which had so long
threatened her.[228]

FOOTNOTES:

[208] _Parl. Hist._, xxv., 1094.

[209] George III. to Pitt, June 14, 1786, MS. Pitt Papers, 103, quoted
in Stanhope's _Life of Pitt_, i., App. xix.

[210] _Parl. Hist._, xxvi., 287.

[211] Bulkeley to Buckingham, March 10, 1788, _Court and Cabinets of
George III._, i., 360-61; _Parl. Hist._, xxvii., 115-27.

[212] Copies of correspondence relating to the Prince of Wales given by
the king to Pitt in Jan., 1787, MS. Pitt Papers, 105; Malmesbury,
_Diaries_, ii., 126-31.

[213] Holland, _Memoirs of the Whig Party_, ii., 123-42; Langdale,
_Memoirs of Mrs. Fitzherbert_, pp. 28-30; _Parl. Hist._, xxvi., 1019,
1048-56, 1070, 1080.

[214] _Court and Cabinets_, i., 363-64; _Auckland Corr._, i., 456.

[215] Grenville to Buckingham, Nov. 13, 1788, _Court and Cabinets_, i.,
448-49.

[216] Same to same, Nov. 30, _ibid._, ii., 23; _Administrations of Great
Britain_, p. 122 n.

[217] Grenville to Buckingham, Dec. 9, 1788, _Court and Cabinets_, ii.,
41.

[218] _Parl. Hist._, xxvii., 1010.

[219] Compare Massey, _Hist._, iii., 383-84, 388, with Jesse, _Memoirs
of George III._, iii., 85 _sqq._, and Lecky, _Hist._, v., 147 _sqq._;
see also _Court and Cabinets_, ii., 12, 25, 122; _Auckland Corr._, ii.,
306.

[220] _Annual Register_, xxxii. (1790), 65.

[221] Despatches and Papers, MS. Pitt Papers, 345.

[222] Fitzherbert to Leeds, June 16, 1790, MS. Spain, R.O.

[223] Del Campo to Leeds, Feb. 10, 1790; Memorial, Spain, 18; Leeds to
Fitzherbert, Aug. 17, 1790, all MSS. Spain, R.O.

[224] Merry to Leeds, Feb. 8, 1790; Fitzherbert to Leeds, Nov. 8, 1790,
MSS. Spain, R.O.

[225] Fitzherbert to Leeds, June 16, 1790, MS. Spain, R.O.; Bond to
Leeds, Jan. 3, 1791, _Letters of P. Bond_.

[226] Leeds to Lord Gower, Sept. 1, 1790, MS. France, R.O.

[227] McDonald's Affidavit, Sept. 25, 1790, MS. For. var., 816, R.O.

[228] A. Sorel, _L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise_, ii., 84-95.

CHAPTER XVI.

DECLARATION OF WAR BY FRANCE.

For the sake of clearness it will be convenient in this chapter to
notice first some matters of domestic interest debated in parliament
from 1790 to 1792, next to take a general view of English foreign
policy, and, lastly, to trace the effects of the French re