[20] Jefferson to Colonel Taylor, Aug. 1, 1807; Works, v. 148. [21] Turreau to Talleyrand, July 18, 1808; Archives des Aff. Étr. MSS. [22] Erskine to Canning, July 21, 1807; MSS. British Archives. [23] Madison to Monroe, July 6, 1807; State Papers, iii. 183. [24] Canning to Monroe, July 25, 1807; State Papers, iii. 187. [25] Monroe to Madison, Aug. 4, 1807; State Papers, iii. 186. [26] Canning to Monroe, Aug. 3, 1807; American State Papers, iii. 188. [27] Monroe to Madison, Oct. 10, 1807; State Papers, iii. 191. [28] Monroe to Canning, Sept. 7, 1807; State Papers, iii. 189. [29] Canning to Monroe, Sept. 23, 1807; State Papers, iii. 199. [30] Monroe to Canning, Sept. 29, 1807; State Papers, iii. 201. [31] Monroe and Pinkney to Canning, July 24, 1807; State Papers, iii. 194. [32] Canning to Monroe and Pinkney, Oct. 22, 1807; State Papers, iii. 198. [33] American State Papers, iii. 25. [34] The Times, Aug. 26, 1807. [35] The Morning Chronicle, Aug. 6, 1807. CHAPTER III. The new Ministry which succeeded “All the Talents” and took seat in Parliament April 8, 1807, represented everything in English society that was most impervious to reason. In its origin a creature of royal bigotry trembling on the verge of insanity, before it had been a few short weeks in office every liberal or tolerant Englishman was shocked to find that this band of Tories, whose prejudices were such as modern society could scarcely understand, and who had been forced into office by the personal will of an almost imbecile King, did in reality represent a great reaction of the English people against tolerant principles, and reflected the true sense of the nation as it had never been reflected by Grenville or Fox. Parliament was dissolved April 27, though only four months old; and June 22, when the “Leopard” was firing into the “Chesapeake,” the new Parliament met at Westminster Hall, with a ministerial majority of more than two hundred country squires, elected on the cry that the Church was in danger.