Power upon History_, pp. 318-19.

[2] Earl Waldegrave's _Memoirs_, p. 36.

[3] See, for example, "Memorandum of what past at Sir R. Walpole's
house," Sept. 9, 1725, Add. MS. 32,687 (Duke of Newcastle's Papers), f.
155.

[4] _Engl. Historical Rev._, xvii. (1902), 678 _sqq._, an interesting
article by Mr. Winstanley to which I am indebted.

[5] Add. MS. 32,914, ff. 171, 189; the order in the text is that of the
manuscript, the names and offices within parentheses are supplied.

[6] His appointment about Nov. 16, Add. MS., _u.s._, f. 369; he appears
as a "lord of the cabinet," Jan. 8, 1761, Add. MS. 32,917, f. 180.

[7] Add. MS. 32,929, f. 143; see also _Engl. Hist. Rev._, _u.s._

[8] _Dropmore Papers_, iii., 337-38, 341-43 (Hist. MSS. Comm.); Earl of
Malmesbury, _Diaries_, etc., iii., 465.

[9] J. Morley, _Walpole_, p. 157.

[10] From the Revolution the two principal secretaries of state took one
the southern, the other the northern department. Both were responsible
for home affairs. Foreign affairs were divided between them, the
southern department including France, Spain, etc., the northern,
Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. A third
secretaryship was established for the colonies in 1768, and abolished in
1782, when the distinction between northern and southern was
discontinued and the secretaryships were divided into home and foreign.

[11] Newcastle to Hardwicke, March 6, 1764, Add. MS. 32,919, f. 481.

[12] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 26, 1760, quoted in Harris's _Life of
Hardwicke_, iii., 215-16.

[13] Memoranda, Nov. 13, 1760, Add. MS. 32,914, f. 277.

[14] Bute to Newcastle, Nov. 16, _ibid._, f. 345.

[15] Add. MSS. 32,684 (Royal family), f. 121, and 32,914, f. 359.

[16] G. Rose, _Diaries and Correspondence_, ii., 189.

[17] Burke, "_Present Discontents_," _Works_, iii., 143, ed. 1852; May,
_Constitutional History_, i., 236.

[18] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Nov. 7, 1760, Add. MS. 32,914, ff. 171-72.

[19] _Chatham Correspondence_, ii., 90.

[20] Newcastle to Duke of Manchester, Dec. 14, 1760, Add. MS. 32,916, f.
173; see also f. 322.

[21] _Seasonable Hints from an Honest Man_, 1761.

[22] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Dec. 7, 1760, Add. MS. 32,915, f. 332.

[23] Secret Memorandum, C. V. [Count de Viri], Add. MS. 32,917, f. 461.

[24] Parliamentary Paper, xxxiii. (July, 1858), 165, National Debt.

[25] MS. Admiralty Miscell., 567, The Progress of the Navy, R.O.

[26] Al