[50] The disposition of the naval force fit for service on Sept. 15, 1761, was: At home and within call, 54 ships of the line and 58 frigates; with Saunders, 11 of the line and 12 frigates; East Indies, 14 of the line; Jamaica, 6; Leeward islands, 8; North America, 6; other plantations, 2; convoys and cruisers, 4; total, 105 of the line. Men wanting to complete ships at home, 15,490 (Add. MS. 32,928, f. 185). France could not have had more than 42 ships of the line (Mahan, _Influence of Sea Power_, p. 312). Spain had 49 of the line fit for service, but insufficiently manned (Coxe, _Bourbon Kings of Spain_, iii., 245, ed. 1813). [51] Minutes of Council, Oct. 2, 1761, Add. MS. 32,929, ff. 18-28. [52] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Nov. 9, 1761, Add. MS. 32,929, f. 143. [53] _Annual Register_, iv. (1761), 48. [54] Bisset, _Memoirs of Sir A. Mitchell_, ii., 283, 286, 294 _sq._; _Buckinghamshire Correspondence_, i., 47-52; Adolphus, _Hist. of the Reign of George III._, i., App. 5, 79-83. [55] Newcastle to Devonshire, April 10, 1762, Add. MS. 32,937, ff. 11, 87. [56] Add. MS. 32,938, ff. 18, 50, 105 _sq._, 239, 262, 304, 425. [57] Newcastle to Cumberland, May 26, 1762, Add. MS. 32,939 f. 5. [58] Newcastle to Pitt, 1762, MS. Pitt Papers, 25, R.O.; Temple to Pitt, Oct. 3, 1762, _ibid._, 61. [59] As regards Manila, see _Hist. MSS. Comm. Rep._, vii., 316 _sq._ [60] Fox's Memoir in _Life and Letters of Lady Sarah Lennox_, i., 72-73. [61] A. von Ruville, _William Pitt und Graf Bute_, pp. 55-56. [62] _Parl. Hist._, xv., 1305; _History of the Late Minority_, p. 96; May, _Constitutional History_, i., 382-83. [63] Pitt to Newcastle, April 9, 1763, Add. MS. 32,948, f. 84. Bute resigned on the 11th. [64] Newcastle to Lord Kinnoul, June 3, 1763, Add. MS. 32,949, f. 15. CHAPTER III. THE GRENVILLE ADMINISTRATION.