Stephcns, life of Tooke, vol. II, p

101. Morellct, Mémoires, — Stephens, life of Tooke, vol. II, p. 390 ; life and correspofidence of Major Cartwright^ vol. I, pp. 9r), 107, 1 12. — Bow-

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ring, \ol. X, p. 236 : (lettre de Beniham à lord Lansdownc, 1790) : Yua had thon at that lime of daj' a Shelburne î>arly, and which, whatever were the subjects, was the more honourable lo the head of il, as ho rcij^ntMl alone. A party wliich, by mère wcight of réputation, told in the balance against the great aristooracy of the country. It was then, as th«\v say at cricket, Shelburne against ail Kngland.

102. Mss. Univ. Coll., n» 132 (Parliamcntary Reform) : Defenceofthe People ayainsl lord Erskine, 1815 ; Lctter XI : Romiih/s principles, u'/w/. — « To Conslitulional Law il (le principe de Vutilité) had beon applie»! by him before we met. To Constitutional Law he had recognized its applicability before l myself had made any application of it. Sprung from a race of cxpcUed Frcnch Proleslants, nurtured in the mosl illustrions of Commonwealths, he had from e^irliest youth been wont to sec that priuciple applied to practice, applied as closely as, before the rise of the American Comraonweallh, it ever had beon applied. Before he had ever seen me, the eonipanions of his studies had been of the Hepublican cast. By réputation at least, if not by person, your Lordship must hâve kno>\n Brand Holli?, the fond amateur of Rcpublicanism, thcmagnificent publisher, and bountiful distribulor of Republican books. Romilly had received from him I know not how many : one of them in parlicular l remcmber sceing, and hoaring from him whonce and how it came. — C'est chez Brand Hollis que Romilly connut Dumont.