[Footnote 18: Here there is a pencil note: "For he was one of the shyest men I ever knew."] [Footnote 19: Pencil note: "Wyndham."] [Footnote 20: A note: "Vary here."] [Footnote 21: A note:--"Dilate, and Figure."] [Footnote 22: Here is added in pencil, "2nd Nov. 1821."] [Footnote 23: Rosebery's "Life of Pitt," p. 233.] [Footnote 24: Then Clerk of Parliaments. Rose writes to Wilberforce later: "I shall never find words, either in speaking or writing, to express what I think of you."] [Footnote 25: Pitt.] [Footnote 26: About 1802.] [Footnote 27: Lecky, vol. vii. p. 32.] [Footnote 28: Dundas, who had been Treasurer to the Navy, was impeached on April 29, 1805, on a charge of misappropriating £10,000 worth of public money. He was acquitted June 12, 1805.] [Footnote 29: William Wilberforce married Barbara, daughter of Isaac Spooner; she was the seventh Barbara in her family, the name having been handed down from mother to daughter. The first Barbara was daughter of Viscount Fauconberg and wife of Sir Henry Slingsby, Bart., who was beheaded on Tower Hill June 8, 1658, by Oliver Cromwell, for loyalty.] [Footnote 30: She was second daughter of Sir Edward Walpole; her uncle Horace Walpole writes of her: "For beauty I think she is the first match in England, she has infinite wit and vivacity."] [Footnote 31: "Cœlebs in Search of a Wife," published 1809. Of her publishing experiences, Hannah More writes: "One effect of Cœlebs has pleased me. I always consider a bookseller in respect to a book as I do an undertaker with regard to death--one considers a publication as the other does a corpse, as a thing to grow rich by, but not to be affected with. Davies (Cadell's partner) seems deeply struck, and earnestly implores me to follow up some of the hints respecting Scripture in a work of which he suggests the subject."] [Footnote 32: "Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth," by Augustus J. C. Hare.] [Footnote 33: "Poor Burgh almost mad about the Union" ("Life of Wilberforce," vol. ii. p. 359).] [Footnote 34: Lord Redesdale was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ireland March 15, 1802; he resigned February, 1806.] [Footnote 35: Wilberforce to Henry Bankes. "Life of W. Wilberforce."] [Footnote 36: Brother to Mr. Pitt, of whom Lord Eldon gave it as his deliberate opinion that "the ablest man I ever knew in the Cabinet was Lord Chatham."] [Footnote 37: Part of this letter only is printed in "Life of William Wilberforce."] [Footnote 38: The third Lord Holland was Fox's nephew, and converted his palace at Kensington into a sort of temple in honour of Fox's memory.] [Footnote 39: Charles Manners Sutton, Speaker of the House of Commons, 1817-1834; created Viscount Canterbury 1835; died 1845.] [Footnote 40: Mr., afterwards Lord, Brougham.] [Footnote 41: Mr. Manning became bankrupt in the winter of 1830-31.] [Footnote 42: Mr. James Stephen married Wilberforce's sister.] [Footnote 43: Mr. Wilberforce's second daughter.]