78 THE INFLUENCE OF GRENVILLE ON PITT’S FOREIGN POLICY. 
- Miles. The correspondence of IV. A. Miles on the French Revolution, 1789-1817. 
Edited by C. P. Miles. 2 vols. London : 1890. 
Miles’s importance lies in his secret use by Pitt in the Nootka Sound controversy of 1790, and 
his enthusiasm for the French Revolution. This enthusiasm made him desirous of peace with 
France, and constituted him an influence upon Pitt in that direction. Miles held no official posi¬ 
tion, but was an influential publicist, though not always a correct exponent of public opinion. 
Morris. The diary and letters of Gouvemeur Morris. Edited by Anne Cary 
Morris. 2 vols. New York : 1888. 
These letters, written from Paris in the earlier years of the French Revolution, and later from 
various European courts, furnish brilliant descriptions of contemporary men and events. They 
are not wholly trustworthy, for Morris had a vivid imagination ; but in this study Morris plays 
an important though brief part as confidential adviser and agent of Grenville in the latter’s 
effort to secure a Prussian alliance in 1796. 
Oscar Browning. “England and France in 1793.” By Oscar Browning. 
Fortnightly Review. February, 1883. 
A critical examination of the diplomatic incidents preceding the French declaration of war, 
I based on the documents in the English archives. 
Pare. Hist. The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to 
the year iSoj. 36 vols. London: 1806-1820. 
Records Austria. 49. Volume 49 of British Foreign Office Records for Austria. 
The Records themselves being inaccessible, no use of them has been attempted in general, and 
in fact the letters given in Dropmore amply supply the necessary information for a purely per¬ 
sonal study of the relations of Pitt and Grenville. But in one instance the references in the 
letters were so blind as to require a transcript of the actual instructions. This was in the case 
of Hammond’s mission to Vienna and Berlin in 1797. 
Rose. Diaries and correspondence of the Hon. George Rose. 2 vols. Loudon : 
i860. 
Rose acted for many years as Pitt’s confidential secretary, but the inexactness with which his 
papers have been edited greatly limits their usefulness. Dates are frequently lacking and the 
letters are usually merely extracts. Rose has therefore been used in this study only as sup¬ 
plementary evidence. 
Schlosser. History of the eighteenth century. By F. C. Schlosser. Translated 
by D. Davison. 8 vols. London : 1843-1852. 
Schlosser is violently anti-British and his sources are limited, but he is of value in depicting 
conditions in the minor German states. 
Smith MSS. British Historical Manuscripts Commission. Twelfth Report. Ap¬ 
pendix, Part IX. 
The notes and letters comprised in this brief collection consist of the papers of Joseph Smith, at 
one time private secretary to Pitt. They are of value in elucidating Pitt’s secret diplomacy in the 
case of Nootka Sound, and in the steps leading to Malmesbury’s peace mission of 1796. 
Sorel. IT Europe et la revolution frangaise. Par Albert Sorel. 5 vols. Paris: 
1885-1903. 
Sorel is justly regarded as the great authority on the diplomacy of Europe during the French 
Revolution. In this study, however, he has been cited only in support of statements of fact in 
non-English diplomacy, for his knowledge of English documents is apparently very limited. In 
many cases, where he is guilty of absolute error in his statement of English purposes and acts, it 
has been thought worth while to prove that error in the foot-notes. And in general the entire 
thesis maintained by Sorel in regard to the relations of England and France in 1796 and 1797 is 
denied by the conclusions reached in this study. 
