[18] It was not fair to hold Addington entirely responsible for the promotion of his brother, who had been a junior lord of the treasury under Pitt. The taunt came with a particularly bad grace from Canning, who had himself been paymaster-general in the last administration. [19] Pellew, _Life of Sidmouth_, ii., 250. [20] _Annual Register_, xlvi. (1804), p. 34. [21] Stanhope, _Life of Pitt_, iv., 135-44. [22] See the letter in Stanhope, _Life of Pitt_, iv., appendix, pp. i.-iii. [23] There is preserved a sketch in Pitt's handwriting of a combined administration with Melville, Fox, and Fitzwilliam as secretaries of state, and Grenville as lord president. [24] Stanhope, _Life of Pitt_, iv., appendix, pp. xi., xii. [25] The best account of Pitt's return to power is to be found in Stanhope, _Life of Pitt_, iv., 113-95; appendix, pp. i.-xiii. The story is told in a very spirited manner by Lord Rosebery, _Pitt_, pp. 238-44. [26] Rose, _Life of Napoleon I._, i., 450-53. [27] Napoleon actually crowned himself, although he had originally intended to be crowned by the pope. [28] Malmesbury, _Diaries_, iv., 338. [29] Nelson's tactics at Trafalgar are explained in a series of remarkable articles in _The Times_ of September 16, 19, 22, 26, 28, 30, and October 19, 1905. For incidents of the battle see Mahan, _Life of Nelson_, ii., 363 _sqq._ [30] Rose, _Life of Napoleon I._, ii., 53-57, 63-65. CHAPTER III. GRENVILLE AND PORTLAND.