in this volume to
GOLDWIN SMITH, _The United Kingdom, a Political History_ (2 vols.,
1899), but the work is too slight to be regarded as an authority. Sir T.
E. MAY'S (Lord Farnborough) _Constitutional History of England from 1760
to 1860_ (3 vols., 10th ed., 1891) is also useful.

(2) The _Annual Register_ is probably the most useful authority for this
period. In addition to more general information, it contains a very full
report of the more important parliamentary debates and the text of the
principal public treaties and of numerous other state papers. The
narrative is not often coloured by the political partisanship of the
writer, but allowance must be made for the strong tory bias of the
volumes dealing with the reign of William IV. The _Parliamentary
History_ closes in 1803, at which date Cobbett's _Parliamentary
Debates_ had begun to appear. After 1812 Cobbett ceased to superintend
the work and his name was dropped, and in 1813 and afterwards the
title-page acknowledged that the work was "published under the
superintendence of T. C. Hansard," who had also been the publisher of
Cobbett's series and of the _Parliamentary History_.

[Pageheading: _MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE._]

(3) Political and other memoirs and printed correspondence. The
following have been noticed among the authorities for volume x.: PELLEW,
_Life and Correspondence of H. Addington, Viscount Sidmouth_ (3 vols.,
1847), very full wherever Sidmouth was directly concerned, written with
a strong bias in favour of the subject of the biography. Lord STANHOPE,
_Life of Pitt_ (4 vols., 3rd ed., 1867). The appendix to the last volume
contains Pitt's correspondence with the king in the years 1804-1806.
Lord ROSEBERY, _Pitt_ (Twelve English Statesmen Series, 1891), brilliant
but not always sound. Lord JOHN (Earl) RUSSELL, _Memorials and
Correspondence of C. J. Fox_ (4 vols., 1853-1854), and _Life and Times
of C. J. Fox, 1859-1866_. _Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George
III._ (4 vols., 1853-1855; 1801 falls in vol. iii.), continued in
_Memoirs of the Court of England during the Regency_ (2 vols., 1856),
_Memoirs of the Court of George IV._ (2 vols., 1859), and _Memoirs of
the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria_ (2 vols., 1861;
1837 is reached in vol. i.); these volumes, edited by the Duke of
Buckingham, contain the correspondence of the Grenville family. The
first series alone, which contains many important letters of Lord
Grenville,