Note 178 — Chapter XI
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Cartwright to Pitt, Feb. 27, 1745 (Chatham MSS.). We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.
'Hibernia, smile! Thrice happy isle, On thy blest ground Twelve thousand pound For Stanhope's found, Three thousand clear For Pitt a year; So shalt thou thrive, Industrious hive, While these and more Increase thy store.' Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.