Note 247 — Chapter XIV

Mr. Fuller, no doubt, was a hearty well-wisher of the repeal. He was a sensible man, and his opinion carried additional weight from the decided and independent tone in which he delivered it; and Almon says, that after his death it was discovered that he had been for many years in the receipt of a pension from the Government of 500l. a year, a fact that explains the sudden decline of his zeal mentioned by Burke, Correspondence, ii. 8.—E.