41 Marx draws a parallel here between the 18th-century events and the actions of the British Admiralty in 1854 when an attempt was made to raise a blockade of the Russian harbours t)ii the Black Sea at the beginning of the Crimean war (1853-56). James Graham’s statement, report about his dispatch of April 3, 1854 and Admiral James Dundas’ replies are cited by Marx according to the material of the John Arthur Roebuck commission appointed to investigate the state of the British Army in the Crimea (“State of the Army before Sebastopol”, The No. 22054, May 15, 1855).
42 Marx quotes George III’s speech on October 26, 1775, the words of Lord Cavendish and North’s statement mentioned below from T. S. Hughes’ The History of England, Vol. If, pp. 191, 113.
43 Marx is referring to the Versailles Peace Treaty (see Note 36).
44 A reference to the retirement of Rockingham’s ministry after. his death on July 1, 1782.
45 Marx quotes Burke front T. S. Hughes’ The History of England..., Vol. III, pp. 148-49.
46 The Shelburne ministry (1782-83) succeeded Rockingham’s ministry (see Note 44).
47 [Ph. H.] Mahon, History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, Vol. I, London, 1839, p. 341.