76 THE INFLUENCE OF GRENVILLE ON PITT’S FOREIGN POLICY. 
Burke’s Works. The works of Edmund Burke. Bohn edition. 6 vols. London: 
1868. 
Charlemont MSS. 
Vol. I. British Historical Ma?iuscripts Commission. Twelfth Report. 
Appendix, Part X. 
Vol. II. British Historical Manuscripts Commission. Thirteenth Report. 
Appendix, Part VIII. 
The first volume covers the period from 1745 to 1783, while the second extends to 1799. The 
Earl of Charlemont’s letters cover a wide range of subjects, but are chiefly literary and political, 
while his correspondents included many of the most distinguished men of his time. These 
volumes are mainly valuable in the present study for the side-lights thrown on men and events 
and in the description of conditions and parties in Ireland during the earlier years of the French 
Revolution. This latter consideration is of importance in a study of Cabinet difficulties in 
England. 
Court and Cabinets. Memoirs of the court and cabinets of George III. By the 
Duke of Buckingham. 4 vols. London : 1853-1855. 
Consists almost wholly of letters between Grenville and his brother, the Duke of Buckingham. 
These are of great value as frequently indicating Grenville’s real opinion and purpose, where 
official letters are expressed in more guarded language. 
C roker . The correspondence and diaries of the late Right Honourable fohn Wilson 
Croker. Edited by Louis J. Jennings. 2 vols. New York : 1884. 
After his retirement from active political life, Croker was much given to collecting from men 
of prominence narratives of obscure incidents in the diplomatic history of the French Revolution. 
A few of these have been cited in the study as supplementary evidence. 
DEbrett. A collection of state papers relative to the war against France. 11 vols., 
first edition. Published at London from 1794 to 1802. 
This collection was issued as a private enterprise, and contains many documents not elsewhere 
obtainable, together with many private letters from the scene of war. The documents cannot be 
taken as authoritative without comparison with official sources, some wholly fictitious pieces 
being included. Some of these very fictitious pieces are, however, important, as explaining refer¬ 
ences in memoirs and letters by men who drew their information from Debrett. 
-. The despatches of Earl Gozver. June, 1790, to August, 1792. Edited 
by Oscar Browning. 1 vol. Cambridge, England : 1885. 
Earl Gower was the English representative at Paris in the period indicated. His despatches 
are therefore valuable in a study of the events leading to war, and have also been used in con¬ 
nection with the Nootka Sound controversy. 
Dropmore. Volume I. British Historical Manuscripts Commission. Thirteenth 
Report. Appendix, Part III. 
Volume II. British Historical Manuscripts Commission. Fourteenth 
Report. Appendix, Part V. 
Volume III. British Historical Manuscripts Commission. Fifteenth Re¬ 
port. “J. B. Fortescue MSS., III.” 
The collection appears as a “ Report on the Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq., preserved at 
Dropmore.” It contains principally the private and secret letters passing between Grenville and 
diplomatic agents at foreign courts, letters between Grenville and Pitt on government questions, 
and letters between Grenville and George III. Very few of these have been previously published, 
and all of them are of the greatest importance in a study of English diplomacy during the period 
covered. Volume I, published in 1892, covers the period from 1698 to 1790 and is chiefly concerned 
with the affairs of Thomas Pitt, governor of Madras, though it contains the first part of the Gren¬ 
ville letters. Volume II appeared in 1895 and carries the correspondence up to 1795, while in vol¬ 
ume III, published in 1899, these letters are continued to December 31, 1797. As the report 
numbers and titles of the publications follow no uniform system, the references here given are 
to volume and page of the subtitle used, “The Dropmore Manuscripts.” 
