is of first-rate importance. The editing is often inaccurate.
_Diaries and Correspondence of the First Earl of Malmesbury_ (4 vols.,
1844), edited by the third earl (vol. iv. extends from February, 1801,
to July, 1809), authoritative and useful, especially for the crisis of
1807. _Correspondence of Marquis Cornwallis_ (3 vols., 1859), edited by
C. Ross, valuable for the negotiations at Amiens and for Cornwallis's
brief second governor-generalship of India. The notes are full of useful
biographical material concerning the persons mentioned in the
correspondence. _Diaries and Correspondence of George Rose_ (2 vols.,
1860), edited by L. V. Harcourt. _The Diary and Correspondence of
Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester_, edited by his son (3 vols., 1861,
extending from 1795 to 1829), with interesting notices of Perceval, and
generally useful from 1802-1817, when Abbot was Speaker. Lord HOLLAND,
_Memoirs of the Whig Party_ (2 vols., 1852), edited by his son, Lord
Holland. These memoirs do not extend beyond the year 1807. Volume ii.,
which covers the period during which Holland was a member of the
Grenville cabinet, is of special importance. His memory is not always
accurate, and he writes with a whig bias which makes him a harsh judge
of George III. Holland's _Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, 1807-1821_,
edited by Lord Stavordale, the present Lord Ilchester (1905),
interesting, and, like the earlier volumes, full of personal detail, but
of less value, since Holland was not in office again till 1830.

Similar in character to the above, but only of importance after 1801 are
the following: _Life of Perceval_ (2 vols., 1874), by his grandson, Sir
Spencer Walpole, written largely from the Perceval papers, especially
valuable for the ministerial crisis of 1809. The _Memoirs and
Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh_ (12 vols., 1850-1853), edited by
his brother the third Marquis of Londonderry, consisting mainly of
military and diplomatic correspondence. Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, _Lives of
Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, the Second and Third
Marquesses of Londonderry_ (3 vols., 1861), much more political than
biographical; valuable and appreciative, but not rich in documents. _The
Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington during his various Campaigns in
India, Denmark [etc.], from 1799 to 1818_ (12 vols., 1834-1838),
compiled by Lieut.-Colonel GURWOOD (really extending to 1815 only);
_Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of the Duke