[168] Repertory 164, fos. 367-369. [169] Repertory 164, fos. 370, 379; Journal 62, fos. 159, 162. This address of the Common Council, as well as similar addresses from 1760 downwards, will be found in a volume printed by order of the Corporation in 1865. [170] Parliament was dissolved 20 March (1761), and a new Parliament summoned for May. Of the old city members three out of the four were again returned: but the place of Barnard, now getting advanced in years, was taken by Thomas Harley, a brother of the Earl of Oxford. [171] When, speaking on the address, Alderman Beckford proposed to push the war with more vigour than formerly, Pitt is recorded as having fired up and to have asked his friend what new piece of extravagance he wished for?--Walpole, "Memoirs of the reign of George III," i, 24. [172] Chatham Correspondence, ii, 158. [173] Journal 62, fos. 298, 299. [174] Journal 62, fo. 302. [175] A schedule of the different "services" at the various tables and particulars of the cost (£6,898 5_s._ 4_d._) of the entertainment are entered on record.--Journal 62, fos. 337-340b. [176] Walpole, "Memoirs of reign of George III," i. 89, 90; Walpole to Mann.--Letters, iii, 459. [177] Journal 62, fo. 303. [178] _Id._, fos. 298b-299. [179] Horace Walpole was indignant at the Common Council presuming to speak on behalf of the City of London, and to "usurp the right of making peace and war." At the same time he could not shut his eyes to the fact that the City held the purse-strings, and that without its assistance supplies would run short.--Walpole to Conway, 26 Oct., 1761. The same to Horace Mann, 14 Nov.--Letters, iii, 457, 459. [180] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 91-93. [181] Almon, "Correspondence of Wilkes," i, 65, 66. [182] Journal 62, fos. 330b, 334b. [183] Repertory 167, fo. 184. [184] Repertory 167, fos. 280, 286, 291. [185] Journal 62, fos. 72-73b, 75-76, 87b-88b, 131-131b, 134-134b [186] Journal House of Commons, xxix, 666. [187] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 332. [188] Journal House of Commons, xxix, 668, 685. [189] Journal House of Commons, xxix, 690. [190] Journal House of Lords, xxx, 437. [191] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 331; see also Grenville Papers, ii, 235. [192] Journal House of Lords, xxx, 438; Journal House of Commons, xxix, 698. [193] Journal 63, fo. 146b; Grenville Papers, ii, 237. [194] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 309-314. [195] Journal House of Commons, xxix, 723. [196] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 385, ii, 35. [197] Journal 63, fos. 166-167, 171. [198] Walpole, Memoirs, i, 391. [199] Walpole to Mann, 1 Aug., 1766. Letters, v, 8. "The city of London"--he writes elsewhere--"had intended to celebrate Mr. Pitt's return to employment, and lamps for an illumination had been placed round the Monument. But no sooner did they hear of his new dignity, than the festival was counter-ordered." Memoirs, ii, 359. [200] Walpole. Memoirs, ii, 394. [201] Journal 64, fos. 142b, 204. Before the freedom could be conferred, Townshend had died (4 Sept.).