[516] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 246. [517] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 246b. [518] Journal 69, fos. 67, 128. The gold box was not presented until the 5th Feb., 1785. _Id._, fos. 265b-266b. [519] Alderman Bull had died during the Christmas recess, and his place had been taken by Brook Watson.--Annual Register xxvii, 179. [520] Wraxall, Memoirs iii, 433, 434. [521] Parliamentary History xxiv, 975-1006. [522] The votes against Sawbridge's motion had been 199 to 125, whilst those against Pitt were 248 to 174, or a majority of 74 in each case.--Journal House of Commons, xl, 216, 863. [523] Journal 69, fo. 223b. [524] _Id._, fos. 248-249. [525] Journal 69, fos. 249b-250. [526] Journal House of Commons, xl, 1000, 1032. [527] Journal 69, fo. 250b. [528] _Id._, fos. 288b-290. [529] Journal 69, fos. 330, 338b-339, 355. Journal House of Commons, xli, 151. [530] Journal 69, fos. 297b-298, 302-305. [531] Repertory 191, fos. 74-79. [532] Journal 70, fos. 132-133. [533] Journal House of Commons, xlii, 289. [534] Journal 70, fos. 134, 134b. [535] Journal 71, fos. 48-49, 74b, 75, 93, 99-99b. [536] Journal House of Commons, xliv, 276. [537] Journal House of Commons, xlii, 266, 289. The city solicitor and comptroller were specially commended for their services in preserving the city's rights in the treaty.--Journal 71, fos. 17b-18b. [538] Journal 70, fo. 303b. [539] Journal 71, fo. 47b. Journal House of Commons, xliii, 166, 167. [540] Journal 73, fo. 87. [541] Journal 71, fos. 179b, 180, 188. [542] _Id._, fos. 190, 190b. [543] ID., fos. 186b-187, 190. [544] Journal 71, fos. 212-213b, 216-216b, 221. [545] Journal 71, fos. 221b, 222b-223b, 231b; Repertory 193, fos. 193-201, 206-215. [546] The picture was painted as a private speculation by the artist, and was offered for sale to the Corporation in 1791. The committee to whom the matter was referred suggested that the City might give 200 guineas for the picture, not so much on account of its intrinsic merit as because the artist was an industrious and promising man with a numerous family. This suggestion did not meet with the approval of the Common Council. It preferred to give the artist half that sum in acknowledgment of his pains and to allow him to keep the picture. Whether the artist thought himself thus sufficiently paid for his work is not clear, but the picture for many years stood in the Long Parlour at the Mansion House, where it served as a screen. It has recently been restored, and is now hung in the lobby of the Guildhall.--Journal 72, fos. 357b, 431-431b. [547] Journal 71, fos. 253, 272, 274b; Journal 72, fo. 55. [548] Repertory 191, fos. 363-364. [549] _Id._, fos. 381-383. [550] Repertory 192, fos. 201-203. [551] Repertory 192, fos. 296, 308, 344, 394. [552] Repertory, 193, fo. 34. [553] Repertory 194, fos. 128-132.