Stephens, life of Tooke, vol. II, p

101. Morellet, Mémoires. — Stephens, life of Tooke, vol. II, p. 390 ; life and correspotidence of Major Cartwright^ vol. I, pp. 95, 107, 112. — Bow-

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ring, vol. X, p. 236 : (lettre de Bentham à lord Lansdowne, 1790) : You had then at that time of day a Shelburne party, and which, whatevcr wcrc the subjects, was the more honourable to the head of il, as he rciîrned alone. A party which, by mère weight of réputation, told in the balance against the great aristocracy of the country. It vfdA then, as they say at cricket, Shelburne against ail England.

i02. Mss. Univ. Coll., n" 132 (Parliamenlary Reform) : Defenceofthe Peopie against lord Enkine, 1815 ; Letter XI : Romillifs principleSy what, — a To Constitutional Law it (le principe de Tutilité) had been applied by him before we met. To Constitutional Law he had recognizcd its applicability before I myself had made any application of it. Sprung from a race of expelled French Protestants, nurtured in the most illustrious of Çommonwealths, he had from earliest youth been wont to see that princii>le applied to practiec, applied as closely as, before the rise of the Am«v riran Commonwcalth, it ever had been applied. Before he had ever seen me, the couipanions of his studies had been of the Republican cast. By réputation at least, if not by person, your Lordship must hâve known Brand HoUi^, the fond amateur of Rcpublicanism, thcmagnificent publislier, and bountiful distributor of Republican books. Romilly had receiTed from him 1 know not how many : oue of them in particular 1 remember seeing, and hearing from him wlience and how it came. — C*esl chez Brand HoUis que Romilly connut Dumont.