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

364 notes. (Pp. 270-272)

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, whatever were the subjects, was the more honourable to the head of it, as he reigned alone. A party which, by mère weight of réputation, told in the balance against the great aristocracy of the country. It was then, as they say al cricket, Shelburne against ail England.

102. M<s. Univ. Coll., n° 132 (Parliamentary Reform) : Defence of the People against lord Erskine, 1815 ; Letter XI : Romilly's principles, what. — « To Constitutional Law it le principe de l'utilité) had been applied by him before we met. To Constitutional Law he had recognized its applicabilité' before I myself had made any application of it. Sprung from a race of expelled French Protestants, nurtured in the most illustrious of Commonwealths, he had from earliest youth been wont to see that principle applied to practice, applied as closely as, before the rise of the American Commonwealth, it ever had been applied. Before he had ever seen me, the companions of bis studies had been of the Republican cast. By réputation at least, if not by person, your Lordship must bave known Brand Hollis, the fond amateur of Republicanism, tliemagnificent publi-her, and bountiful distributor of Republican books. Romilly had received from him I know not how many : one of them in particular I remember seeing, and hearing from him whence and how it came. — C'est chez Brand Hollis que Romilly connut Dumont.