Note 176 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Cent. (iii. 324). Mahon (v. 86) quotes Burke's speech of 1774 as proving the small interest in the debate of 1765, and thinks that Walpole's failure to mention the debate in his letters proves the truth of Burke's recollections. Adolphus had earlier relied on Burke. Mahon even intimates that Barré's famous speech was an interpolation in the later accounts; but the Letters printed by Jared Ingersoll show that it was delivered. (Cf. Palfrey's Review of Mahon.) The Parliamentary History says that Barré's speech was in reply to Grenville; but Ingersoll says Charles Townshend was the speaker who provoked it. Cf. Frothingham's Rise of the Republic (p. 175); Ryerson's Loyalists (i. 294); H. F. Elliot on "Barré and his Times" in Macmillan's Mag., xxxv. 109 (Dec., 1876); and Hist. MSS. Com. Report, viii. pp. 189, 190.