[8] Mr. Nisbet Bain (_op. cit._, ii, 129) accuses Pitt and his colleagues of waiving aside a proposed visit of Gustavus III to London, because "they had no desire to meet face to face a monarch they had already twice deceived." Mr. Bain must refer to the charges (invented at St Petersburg) that Pitt had egged Gustavus on to war against Russia, and then deserted him. In the former volume (chapters xxi-iii) I proved the falsity of those charges. It would be more correct to say that Gustavus deserted England. [9] B.M. Add. MSS., 34438. [10] Martens, v, 236-9; "F.O.," Prussia, 22. Ewart to Grenville, 4th August. [11] On 15th August Prussia renounced her alliance with Turkey (Vivenot, i, 225). [12] Sybel, bk. ii, ch. vi; Vivenot, i, 235, 243. [13] "Dropmore P.," ii, 192. [14] G. Rose, "Diaries," i, 111. [15] Arneth, 206, 210; Vivenot, i, 270. [16] Burke ("Corresp.," iii, 308, 342, 346) shows that Mercy d'Argenteau, after his brief mission to London, spread the slander. Pitt and Grenville said nothing decisive to him on this or any other topic. Kaunitz partly adopted the charge. (See Vivenot, i, 272.) [17] "F.O.," Russia, 22. Grenville to Whitworth, 27th October, and W. to G., 14th October 1791. [18] Lariviere, "Cath. II et la Rev. franc.," 88-90, 110-17. [19] Burke's "Works," iii, 8, 369 (Bohn edit.). [20] "Parl. Hist.," xxviii, 1-41. [21] T. Walker, "Review of ... political events in Manchester (1789-1794)." [22] T. Walker, "Review of ... political events in Manchester (1789-1794)," 452-79. I cannot agree with Mr. J. R. le B. Hammond ("Fox," 76) that Pitt now spoke as the avowed enemy of parliamentary reform. Indeed, he never spoke in that sense, but opposed it as inopportune. [23] Rutt, "Mems. of Priestly," ii, 25. As is well known, Burke's "Reflections on the Fr. Rev.," was in part an answer to Dr. Price's sermon of 4th November 1789 in the Old Jewry chapel, to the Society for celebrating the Revolution of 1688. [24] It was more of a club than the branches of the "Society for Constitutional Information," which did good work in 1780-4, but expired in 1784 owing to the disgust of reformers at the Fox-North Coalition--so Place asserts (B.M. Add. MSS., 27808). [25] T. Walker, _op. cit._, 18, 19. [26] "Parl. Hist.," xxix, 488-510. [27] _Ibid._, 113-9. [28] M. D. Conway, "Life of T. Paine," i, 284. [29] Burke's Works, iii, 76 (Bohn edit.). [30] _Ibid._, iii, 12. So, too, on 30th August 1791 Priestley wrote that Pitt had shown himself unfavourable to their cause (Rutt, "Life of Priestley," ii, 145). [31] Prior, "Life of Burke," 322, who states very incorrectly that not one of them has survived. [32] "H. O.," Geo. III (Domestic), 19.