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Vyner, Mr., i. 8, 30, 63, 124, 145, 211, 218, 243, 257; ii. 110, 124,
178; iii. 184.

Wager, Sir Charles, i. 21, 36.

Waldegrave, James, Earl of, i. 91, 291, 328, 417, 418, 420; ii. 41,
207, 222, 258, 259; iii. 16, 26, 28, 30, 34, 307.

Waldegrave, Colonel, i. 188.

Waldegrave, General, iii. 76, 77, 170, 171, 191, 198, 214.

Waldegrave, Lady Elizabeth, i. 242; iii. 68, 69.

Waldo, General, ii. 170.

Wales, H. R. H. Frederick, Prince of, i. 12, 39, 47, 48, 68, 71, 72,
73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96, 201, 223, 226, 227,
432, 434, 438; ii. 205.

Wales, H. R. H. the Princess Dowager of, i. 69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77,
78, 80, 83, 86, 87, 89, 96, 99, 104, 114, 153, 182, 201, 434,
284, 288, 289, 379, 380, 418, 421, 433, 434; ii. 36, 38, 39,
40, 53, 204, 205, 206, 223, 257, 258, 276, 374, 389; iii. 6,
28, 38, 59, 121, 137, 266, 269, 274, 304.

Wall, General, i. 204, 398; ii. 1.

Walmoden, Baron of, i. 177.

Walpole, Sir Robert, i. 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21, 23, 32, 33, 36, 49, 52,
60, 67, 70, 74, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 105, 118, 119,
129, 140, 142, 159, 160, 163, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 179,
181, 182, 184, 191, 196, 205, 220, 221, 222, 225, 226, 228,
229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 276, 345, 350, 338,
398, 401; ii. 82, 83, 109, 131, 145, 213, 272; iii. 85, 86,
106.

Walpole, Horace, senior, i. 8, 11, 45, 70, 139, 140, 141, 153, 196,
220, 236, 241, 242, 254, 342, 364, 437; ii. 22, 37, 49, 54,
107, 169, 175, 202.

Walpole, Horace, junior, i. 8, 196, 298, 384, 414, 415; ii. 163, 254,
255, 268, 327; iii. 28, 29, 159, 160.

Walpole, Mary, i. 173, 191.

Walsingham, Melusina Schulemburgh, Countess of, i. 53.

Walsingham, Lady, iii. 308.

Walter, Mr., ii. 409.

Warburton, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, iii. 239.

Ward, Lord, i. 116, 275.

Warren, Sir Peter, i. 243, 293.

Warton, Dr. Joseph, i. 438.

Washington, Major, i. 399.

Watson, Admiral, iii. 57, 89, 90.

Wedel, General, iii. 200.

Weir, Mr. Hope, i. 60.

Wells, Paul, i. 175.

Wentworth, General, i. 100.

Wentworth, Lord, i. 275.

Werner, General, iii. 296.

Wesley, iii. 98.

West, Admiral, ii. 228, 274, 296, 297, 306.

West, Mr., ii. 272.

Westmoreland, Earl of, i. 10; ii. 99, 160; iii. 87, 166, 167.

Whitehead, Paul, i. 201; iii. 81.

Whitfield, iii. 97, 98, 278.

Wilbraham, Mr., i. 343.

Willes, Lord Chief Justice, i. 70, 89, 169, 172, 176; ii. 273;
iii. 33, 117.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, i. 21, 67, 94, 168, 194, 204, 205,
230, 385, 442, 448; ii. 393, 416; iii. 111.

Williams, Sir William, iii. 230, 233.

Willoughby, Lord, i. 208; ii. 285.

Wilmington, Spencer Compton, Earl of, i. 74, 102, 141, 163, 178, 179.

Wilmot, Dr., i. 71.

Wilmot, Judge, ii. 273; iii. 119.

Winchelsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, i. 47, 173, 191, 255, 260; ii. 186;
iii. 2, 20, 22, 25, 31, 32, 105.

Windham, Sir William, i. 80, 222; iii. 106.

Winnington, Thomas, i. 33, 93, 173, 174, 183, 205, 439; iii. 67.

Winton, Lord, i. 288.

Wintzenrode, General, iii. 270.

Wolfe, General, iii. 50, 55, 56, 75, 91, 134, 171, 172, 217, 218, 219,
227, 229, 285.

Wolfenbuttle, Duke of, iii. 64, 308, 309.

Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, i. 438, 441.

Wynne, Sir John, ii. 44.

Xavier, Prince of Saxony, ii. 401.

Yarmouth, Amelia Sophia, Countess of, i. 42, 77, 82, 171, 177, 380;
ii. 21, 252, 253, 256, 259; iii. 12, 58, 61, 305, 306, 307.

Yonge, Sir William, i. 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 34, 50, 54, 106, 112, 141,
143, 153, 243, 254, 257, 342, 364, 369; ii. 141.

York, Cardinal of, i. 285; iii. 131.

Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, i. 115, 116, 120,
121, 128, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 268, 273, 309, 316,
321, 337, 339, 343, 346, 348, 350, 352, 360, 363, 379, 380,
382, 384, 389, 392, 409; ii. 10, 11, 16, 41, 49, 62, 140, 184.

Yorke, Philip, i. 115.

Yorke, Charles, i. 125, 130, 145, 343; iii. 115, 183.

Yorke, Colonel, ii. 150; iii. 110, 111.

Yorke, General, iii. 190, 235, 236.

Young, Rev. Dr., i. 439.

Ysenberg, Prince of, iii. 128.

Zelle, George William, Duke of, i. 92; iii. 309, 314.

Zelle, Eleonora D’Esmurs, Duchess of, i. 92; iii. 314.

Zelle, Sophia Dorothea, Princess of, i. 92.

INDEX OF MATTERS.

Act of Grace, curious reasoning on, i. 106.

Addresses from counties, numerous, on the loss of Minorca, ii. 230.

Admiralty. First appointment of the Earl of Sandwich, i. 2;
diminished number of seamen voted, 13, 17;
Lord Anson proposes a severe naval code, but fails, 38;
refusal to send ships to Nova Scotia, avoiding offence to France,
62;
dismissal of Lord Sandwich, and the re-appointment of Lord Anson,
190, 192;
proposition of hard labour in the dock-yards, to commute
transportation, 255;
war with France, ii. 1;
careful selection of officers by Lord Anson, 33;
debates on prize bill, 78;
defended in the Commons by George Granville, 195;
circumstances connected with Byng’s sentence, 306;
affair of the navy bill, iii. 105.

Albemarle, Lord, his diplomatic character, and anecdotes of, i. 82;
death and political character, 422.

Amelia, Princess, her conduct towards Frederick Prince of Wales,
i. 73;
political character and anecdotes, 182;
her law-suit as ranger of Richmond Park, 401, 402;
most extraordinary anecdote respecting Byng’s execution, ii. 371.

America, North, state of, and politics respecting, previous to the
war of 1756, i. 394, et seq.;
commencement of the war and first services of General (then major)
Washington, 399, et seq.;
first naval operations of the war, ii. 27;
military operations commence in Nova Scotia, 30;
Braddock’s unfortunate expedition, 30, et seq.;
Sir William Johnson’s victory in Canada, 46;
grant of money to colonies and to individuals, 153, 154;
review of military affairs in the House of Commons, 157, 158;
debates on the raising of Swiss regiments for service there,
_ibid._, 170, et seq.;
affairs in 1757, iii. 39;
campaign of 1758, 91, 134;
attack on Quebec, and invasion of Canada, 171, 217, et seq.;
the French driven thence, 283, 289.

Amherst, General, biographical notice of, iii. 285, et seq., _notes_;
takes command in America, 91;
takes Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 211;
proceeds towards Quebec to assist Wolfe, 212;
takes Montreal, 288.

Andrews, Dr., parliamentary anecdote of, in Ireland, i. 367.

Anecdotes--
of Lord Sandwich, i. 3;
of Lord Harrington, 4;
of French players, 13;
of Lord Nugent, 20;
of Crowle, the well-known punster, 21;
of Sir William Yonge, 23;
of Sir Robert Walpole, 23;
of Speaker Onslow and Lord Coke, 28;
of Mr. Murray, before the House on the Westminster petition, 29;
of Sir John Cotton, 33;
of Lord Gower and Sir John Cotton, 34;
of Lord Egmont, 35;
of Colonel Lyttelton and family, 39;
of Lady Townshend, _ibid._;
of Colonel Conway, 41;
of Sir H. Erskine, _ibid._;
of Lord Granville in the council, 44;
of Lord Bute, 47;
of Lord Mansfield, 49;
of Lord Chesterfield, 51;
of Queen Caroline and Lady Suffolk, 52;
of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 53;
of Commissioner Oswald, 59, 60;
of Mr. Fox’s candour in parliament, 62;
of George II. and his ministers, _ibid._;
of Archbishop Secker, 65;
of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 70;
of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 71, 73, 74, 77;
of Lord Doneraile, 75;
of Lady Archibald Hamilton, _ibid._;
of Lady Middlesex, 76;
of Sir William Stanhope, 75;
of the Princess of Wales, 76;
of Doddington, 77, 87, 88;
of George II., 78;
of the Duke of Cumberland, 79;
of Dr. Ayscough, 79;
of Lord Albemarle, 82;
of Archbishop Blackburne, 87;
of Lord Chief Justice Willes, 89;
of Sir George Lee, 90;
of Pitt, 92;
of Fox, 93, 94;
of Old John Selwyn, 95;
of Lord Berkeley and the Duke of Dorset, 98;
of Admiral Vernon, 100, 101;
military one of the French and Duke of Cumberland, 103;
of the Duke and Prince George, 105, 106;
of Pulteney, Earl of Bath, 118;
of Sir Francis Dashwood, 123;
political, of the Regency Bill, 129, et seq.;
of George II., and the Regency Bill, 157, 158;
of the first Lord Hardwick, 159;
of the Duke of Newcastle, 163;
of Pelham, 167;
of Lord Granville, 168;
of the dismissed cabinet in 1745, 170;
amatory and avaricious one of George II., 176;
of Lady Suffolk, 177;
of Lady Yarmouth, _ibid._;
of Cheselden, the surgeon, _ibid._;
of Lord Chesterfield, 177;
of Queen Caroline, 179, 182;
of the Duke of Grafton, 182;
of Mr. Legge, 191;
of the Duke of Devonshire, 195;
of Paul Whitehead, 201;
of the Princess of Orange, 206, 207;
of the King and Mr. Fox, 212;
of Lord Stair and Queen Caroline, 221;
of Pope and Lord Bolingbroke, 224;
political, of the Duchess of Bedford, 242;
parliamentary, of Fox and Pelham, 254;
of Archibald, Duke of Argyle, 276;
of the education of the young princes, 284, 289;
of General Ligonier and the King, 292;
of Lewis XV. and Miss Murphy, 334;
of the marriage Bill, 339;
of Charles Townshend, 340;
parliamentary one, 341;
punning one of Jones, the Irish architect, 364;
of Newcastle’s geographical ignorance, 396;
of General Washington and George II., 400;
of Pitt and Murray, 412, 413;
of the quarrel between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414;
of Sir Thomas Robinson, ii. 44;
of old Horace Walpole and the Speaker, ii. 175;
of Madame Pompadour, 176;
of Doddington, 186;
of Lord Bute and Leicester-house, 205, et seq.;
of Queen Caroline, Princess Amelia, and Richmond Park, 220, 221;
of Charles Townshend respecting the squabbles of party, 224;
of caricatures and libels during Byng’s affair, 228, 229;
of Counts Bruhl and Kaunizt, 234;
of Fox’s rupture with Newcastle, 251, et seq.;
of Damiens’ tortures for stabbing the King of France, 283;
of Admiral Byng on his trial and condemnation, 286, 287;
most extraordinary one, 371;
of Archbishop Gilbert, 374;
of Dr. King, _ib._;
of Lord Temple and the King, 378;
of Harry Conway, iii. 54;
of the Princess Caroline, 82;
of the King and Archbishop Secker, 180;
of Pitt and Lord Shelburne, 227;
of Macklyn, Lord Bute, and Love à la Mode, 250, 251;
of Dr. Smollett, 259.

Anne, Princess Dowager, of Orange, death and politics, iii. 168.

Anson, Lord, proposes several articles of war, but fails, i. 38;
appointed to the Admiralty, in room of Lord Sandwich, 194;
character, 194, 195;
careful selection of officers, and pledge to the king on that
subject, ii. 33;
his feelings in regard to Byng’s execution, 317;
observations on him in regard to Byng’s sentence and execution,
343;
restored to the admiralty under Pitt and Newcastle, in 1757,
iii. 32;
his restoration to the admiralty, highly unpleasing to the city,
84.

Anspach, Margrave of, opposes English politics in Germany, i. 288.

Anstruther, General, parliamentary charges against, i. 42, 56, 64, 68;
further proceedings on his case, and motion of Lord Strange, 95,
106, et seq.

Archer, Lord, seconds address in the House of Lords, in 1751, i. 8.

Argyle, John, second Duke of, his political connexion with Sir Robert
Walpole, i. 164.

---- Archibald, third Duke of, inefficient and disappointing speech
on the Scottish Colonization Bill, i. 273;
character, 275-278.

ARMY, British. Votes in 1751, i. 25;
debate on the staff, 31;
military reformation and improvement by the Duke of Cumberland, 38;
new Mutiny Bill, _ibid._;
half-pay officers first subjected to military law, _ibid._;
estimates proposed by Mr. Fox, 213;
proposed reduction, founded on the colonization of Scottish
forfeited estates, 264;
estimates in 1754, debate on, 410;
inefficient state of in England at the commencement of the war,
ii. 19;
estimates on the opening of the war, 67, 86;
affairs of the Militia Bill, of new-raised troops, of foreign
troops employed, 156-204;
camps formed and disturbances with the foreign troops, 248;
remarkable court of inquiry connected with General Fowke and Byng’s
affair, 285;
war in Germany, iii. 147;
extraordinary commissions granted, and debated on in Parliament,
233.

Army, Saxon, account of, ii. 410.

Articles of War, Naval, debates on the 12th, in the House of Commons,
in Byng’s case, ii. 318, et seq.

Ascendency, Protestant, in Ireland, in 1752, and before, i. 278,
et seq.

Ashton, Rev. Mr., a quaint preacher, anecdotes of, iii. 98, 99.

Atcheson, Sir Archibald, political insignificance in the Irish House
of Commons, iii. 73.

Austrians, defeat of, in the campaign of 1760, iii. 294, et seq.

Avarice, whimsical anecdote of, in George II., i. 176.

Ayscough, Dr., anecdotes of his tutorship of Prince George, i. 80.

Bacon, Lord, observations on, i. 374.

Baker, Alderman, a contractor, affair of, ii. 304.

Barnard, Sir John, political and civic character, i. 45, 46;
proposes a sinking fund, 218, 255;
moves a repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369.

Barri, Madame du, anecdotes and intrigues, iii. 245.

Barrington, Lord, moves a diminished number of seamen, i. 12;
proposes an increased vote of seamen, 211;
his political character, and parallel with Ellis, ii. 141, 142;
justifies the application of the 12th article of war to Byng’s case,
in the House of Commons, 320.

Bath, Lord, his political apostasy vindicated by Lord Egmont, i. 36;
parliamentary conduct on the committal of the Regency Bill, 116,
117, et seq.;
joins the Bedford Opposition on the Scottish Colonization Bill, 272;
originates the Marriage Bill in the House of Lords, and why, 337;
publishes his celebrated letter to two great men, iii. 250.

Bathurst, Henry, character of, i. 96.

Bavaria, treaty with, for securing the peace of Germany, i. 8;
subsidy to, 48, 49.

Beckford, Alderman, opposes the Regency Bill, i. 153;
extraordinary declaration, caused by his jealousy of the army, 307;
attends at the first meeting of the Tories, at the Horn Tavern, as
a political party, ii. 13;
absurd boasting, 95;
opposite opinions of the Commons, and of Pitt, upon his merits,
iii. 177, 178.

BEDFORD, Duke of, disagreement with the Duke of Newcastle, i. 1;
political and sporting connexion with Lord Sandwich, 3;
political duplicity on the Naturalization Bill, 55;
increase of popularity, 61;
fails of support in the Nova Scotia affair, 69;
interferes with the establishment of the young princes, on the
death of the Prince of Wales, 79;
conduct on the Regency question, on the demise of the Prince of
Wales, 99;
proposed opposition to the Bill prevented by the gout, 122;
political neglect of, by his coadjutors in the Cabinet, 161;
party intrigues of the Pelhams after the Prince’s demise, 183, 184,
185;
his political character, 186;
change of ministry and resignation of office, 194;
spirited and judicious conduct towards the Duke of Newcastle, 193;
conduct in opposition to Walpole, 241;
his intended quiescent politics on the meeting of Parliament after
the recess, 242;
but is led into Opposition on the Saxon Treaty, _ibid._;
speaks against it in the Lords, 244;
political connexion formed with the Duke of Cumberland, 263;
opposes the Bill for the colonization of the Scottish forfeited
estates, 264;
interferes in the charges against the Prince’s tutors, 309, et seq.,
313;
opposition to the Marriage Bill, 347;
projects of re-union with the Court party, 414;
receives proposals from the Lyttelton party on the part of
Ministers, but rejects them, and sends for Pitt, 416;
declining power of the Duke of Newcastle, and overtures from Fox,
ii. 45;
coalesces, approves of the German Treaties, but refuses office, 47;
defends himself in the Lords, 49;
objects to the proposed New road, out of jealousy to the Duke of
Grafton, but afterwards sees his error, 186, 187;
courageous conduct on the change of ministry, and Pitt’s accession
to power, 266;
but accepts the Lieutenancy of Ireland, 271;
applies to the King in favour of Admiral Byng, but without success,
326;
objects to the coalition of Pitt and Fox, iii. 34;
attacked by the rioters on the Militia Bill, 41;
difficulties in his Irish government, 66-73;
new connexion formed with the Duke of Newcastle, 181;
policy during the tumults in Dublin, in opposition to a suspected
union, 243, et seq.;
conduct towards Lord G. Sackville, 254.

Bedford, Duchess of, her political ascendency over the Duke, i. 186;
her ingenious _ruse_ to draw the Duke again into politics, 242;
her vice-regal state in Ireland, during the Duke’s government,
iii. 66.

Berkeley, Earl of, political anecdote, i. 98.

Berlin captured by the Austrians and Russians, iii. 295.

Bernis, Cardinal de, political disgrace, iii. 158.

Besborough, Lord, his share in Irish politics, ii. 19.

Bishops, Bench of, their inactivity on the marriage clause of the
Regency Bill, i. 146;
their characters, 148, 149.

Blackbourn, Archbishop, curious anecdote of, i. 87.

Blackiston, a spurious patriot and Jacobite, and why, i. 36.

Blakeney, General, defence of Minorca, ii. 226;
gets a red riband, 275.

Board of Trade, attempt of Lord Halifax to subject the West Indian
Colonies to that Board, i. 199.

Bolingbroke, Lord, tortuous politics of, at the Prince of Wales’s
court, i. 73;
his death, character, and anecdotes of him, 220;
ingratitude towards Sir Robert Walpole, 220;
political ingenuity and infamy, 222, 223;
courtly anecdote, 223;
contrasted with Walpole, 225.

Boscawen, Admiral, character and political rise, i. 194;
extraordinary conduct during Byng’s trial, ii. 286;
defeats the French fleet under De la Clue, off Lagos, iii. 211.

Boscawen family, their contest with the Sandwich interests in
Cornwall first led to the formation of a Tory party, for
general purposes, ii. 13.

Boyle, Mr. (Speaker of the Irish House of Commons), his character and
politics, i. 279.

Braddock, General, his unfortunate expedition, ii. 31.

Bribery Oath, motion for its repeal, i. 369.

Brick Tax proposed, but dropped, ii. 178.

Bristol, extraordinary surrender of election liberties to the King,
i. 355.

Broglio, Marshal, affair of Minden, iii. 199.

Brown, Marshal, the Austrian General, defeated by the King of Prussia,
iii. 14.

Bruhl, Count, his politics and magnificence, ii. 234;
his political character, 404-407.

Brunswick, Duchess of, anecdote of her birth, i. 73.

Burdett, Sir Robert, a Tory member; extreme kindness of the Whigs to,
on a breach of privilege, i. 95.

Burgundy, Duke of: born, an important event to France, i. 203.

Bute, Lord, his political debut, i. 47;
anecdotes of his favouritism at Leicester House, ii. 221-3, et seq.;
vide _Wales_.

Butler, Bishop, political and ecclesiastical character, i. 148.

Byng, Admiral, sent to relieve Minorca, ii. 190, 212, 214;
public clamour, 217, 228;
trial of, 229, 246, et seq. 284, 291;
unfair political trick, 285;
is sentenced, 287;
representation of the Court, 292;
observations, 295;
extraordinary circumstances connected with the sentence of
execution, 306, et seq.;
debates in the Commons, 312, et seq.;
mercy refused by the King, 326;
solicitation of the court martial refused, 327;
case before Parliament, 328, 351-366;
dies, 369.

Calcraft, Mr., his political connexion with Lord Holland, ii. 42.

Calcutta, affair of the Black Hole at, iii. 57.

Camden, Lord, vide _Pratt_.

Cameron, Dr. Archibald, romantic story of his capture as a rebel,
i. 333;
executed, 353.

Campbell, A. H., parliamentary conduct and anecdotes, i. 19.

Campbell, Mr. Hume, is brought forward again by the Duke of Newcastle
in support of the German treaties, ii. 107, 108;
quarrel with Pitt, 112;
pensioned, 143;
anecdote of his political modesty on a change of ministers, iii. 23.

Canada, conquest of, iii. 169, 219.

Candour, political and paternal, of Horace Walpole, and why, i. 237,
et seq.

Cape Breton taken, iii. 133.

Caprice, public, various instances of, i. 358.

Cardigan, Lord, appointed governor of Windsor Castle, i. 255.

Cards and Dice taxed, ii. 177.

Caricatures on cards invented by George Townsend, on Byng’s affair,
ii. 228.

Caroline, Queen, anecdote of, and Lord Chesterfield, i. 52;
her influence over the King, and politic juggling with Sir Robert
Walpole, 65.

Caroline, Princess, death, and anecdotes, iii. 82, 83.

Carpenter, Lord, disgraceful conduct of, on the Westminster petition,
i. 26.

Carrickfergus taken by Thurot’s squadron, iii. 264.

Carter, Mr. (Master of the Rolls in Ireland), his character and
factious politics, i. 281, 282.

Chairmen and footmen of the metropolis, Colonel Hale offers to lead
them against the best troops of France, iii. 234.

Charles III., King of Spain, observations on, and character, iii. 205,
210.

Chatham, Lord, vide _Pitt_.

Cherbourg, capture of, iii. 133.

Cheselden, the surgeon, anecdote of, i. 177.

Chesterfield, Lord, brings in a bill for the reformation of the
calendar, i. 50, 51;
anecdotes and political intrigues, 51, et seq.;
whimsical and courtly anecdote of, 177, 178;
engages to negotiate between Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, at the
Princess Dowager’s instigation, iii. 30.

Cholmondeley, Earl of, character and anecdotes, i. 173.

Circular letters to members of parliament, censured in the House,
ii. 63.

Clandestine marriages, inactivity of the bench of Bishops on a
proposed bill to restrain, i. 146.

Clarke, Mr., a military adventurer, plans the siege of Rochfort,
iii. 43.

Cleland, Mr., secretary to the Admiralty, his shameful conduct on
Byng’s affair, ii. 295.

Clive, Lord, early military services in India, iii. 57, 90.

Closter Seven, convention of, iii. 59.

Cobham, Lord, speech and party interest on the Regency Bill, i. 134,
135;
political character, 136.

Cobham party described, i. 136.

Coke, Lord, parliamentary conduct on the Westminster petition, i. 16,
20;
clears the gallery, and quarrels with Speaker Onslow, 27, 28;
his political character, 208;
moves the re-committal of Murray for contempt to the House, _ibid._;
hated by the Scotch, and why, 209, 259;
opposes the bill for purchasing the forfeited estates, _ibid._

Colchester petition, proceedings on, alarm the Newcastle party in the
House, i. 409.

Colley Cibber, death and character, iii. 81, 82.

Cologne, Elector of, joins France in opposition to British interests,
i. 81.

Colonies totally neglected by the Duke of Newcastle, when Secretary
of State, i. 396.

Comines, character of, as an historian, i. 375.

COMMONS, House of, session of 1751, i. 8, et seq.;
affair of the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham, 14,
et seq.;
contumacy of Mr. Murray, 29, 30;
libels against the House, 31;
inefficient opposition to the three shilling land-tax, 32;
opposition to the Mutiny Bill, 39;
attack on General Anstruther, 42;
committee for the suppression of vice and reform of the police, 44;
proposed subsidy to Bavaria, 48;
debate on Murray’s close confinement, 49, 50;
debates on the Naturalization Bill, 54;
debate on Anstruther’s business, 56;
the House adjourns to see Othello at Drury Lane, 61;
proceedings on the Gin Bill, 66, 67;
relaxation in proceedings against Murray, 84;
Naturalization Bill thrown out, 92;
proceedings on a breach of privilege, 95;
further proceedings on Anstruther’s case, 106;
Habeas Corpus granted by the King’s Bench for Murray, 114;
he is remanded, and the committal of the House acknowledged to be
valid, 115;
question of privilege, as to members on the Prince’s establishment,
negatived, 116;
the Regency Bill returned from the Lords, and proceedings thereon,
122, et seq.;
Regency Bill passes the House, 153;
close of the session, release and petty triumph of Murray, 200, 201;
a new session, 208;
Murray remanded to Newgate by the House, _ibid._;
debate on the same, 209;
reward voted for the apprehension of Murray, who had absconded, 212;
army estimates proposed by Mr. Fox, 213;
land-tax proposed by Pelham, accompanied by an extraordinary system
of national policy, 218;
adjournment, and cessation of opposition, 228;
Walpole’s rise and fall by that House, and why, 232, 233;
House meets in 1752, 241;
takes up the affair of the Saxon treaty, 242, et seq.;
motion against subsidiary treaties in time of peace, by Lord Harley,
254;
debate thereon, _ibid._;
state of parties in the House, 263;
bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, 264, et seq.;
prorogation and extraordinary speech of the Speaker to the King,
against the management of Scotland, 275;
session of 1753 opens, 293;
engaged in the affairs of Nova Scotia, 295;
affair of the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.;
affair of the Jew Naturalization Bill, 357, 362;
proposed repeal of the Plantation Act, 364;
motion for repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369;
people look towards it on the ministerial difficulties arising from
Pelham’s demise, 383;
debates on the opening war of 1756, 403;
alarm of the ministerial majority at Pitt’s spirited attack on
election bribery, 408, 409;
debate on the army estimates, 410;
debate on the Mutiny Bill, 420;
debate respecting adjournment on anniversary of King Charles’s
martyrdom, ii. 3;
debate on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill, 4;
a division of the House falsified by Mr. Potter, 11;
first appearance of the modern application of the distinctions of
Whig and Tory, 12, et seq.;
tempestuous opposition of Pitt to the Fox and Bedford coalition,
the German treaties, &c., 55;
sit till five in the morning, the longest debate then on record,
49, 133;
complaint respecting circular letters, 63;
debates on the votes for seamen, 67;
debates on a Prize Bill, 78;
charges of bribery by France, 82;
debates on the army estimates, 86;
committee moved on the militia question, 97;
taking of notes by strangers noticed by Hume Campbell, 108;
close of a long debate on the German treaties, 133;
repeal of all the old militia acts to prepare for a new bill, 152;
debates on Prevot’s regiment, 156;
Ways and Means brought forward by Sir George Lyttelton, 176;
debates on employing foreign troops, 184, et seq.;
Militia Bill voted without a division, 191;
vote of credit of one million opposed, _ibid._;
debates on the Prussian treaty, 197;
Pitt’s first Parliament, 276;
ordnance estimates and Militia Bill, 301, et seq.;
Byng’s sentence announced to the House by a messenger from the
Admiralty, 312, et seq.;
Pitt’s first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand
money for Hanover, 313;
further debates on Byng’s sentence, 320, et seq.;
royal message, bill for absolving the court-martial from their
oaths of secrecy; passes, but lost in the Lords, 350-366;
inquiry into the loss of Minorca, iii. 7, et seq.;
debates upon the vote of a million, 16;
debates upon the Habeas Corpus, 103, 112;
estimates of the year 1759, 176;
debates respecting officers commissioned vacating seats, 233;
debates on army estimates, 234;
affair of Sackville’s arrest and court-martial, as matter of
privilege, 265, 266.

Compton, Sir Spencer, vide _Wilmington_.

Conflans, Monsieur, defeated by Sir Edward Hawke, iii. 231, 232.

Constitution of Britain, political view of, iii. 112-115.

Contades, Marshal, loses the battle of Minden, iii. 191, 199.

Contest, a weekly political satire on Pitt’s coming into
administration, ii. 276.

Conway, Colonel H. S., his political debut and martial bravery, i. 41;
his parliamentary quickness and character compared with Charles
Townshend, 341;
is appointed secretary in Ireland solely from his private merits,
ii. 3;
military promptitude in the affair of the Rochfort expedition,
iii. 54;
as general, employed in the expedition to Rochfort, 45.

Cooke, Mr., presents a Westminster petition against Lord Trentham,
i. 13;
transactions thereon, 15, et seq.

Cornwall, county of, anecdotes of tin parliaments, i. 142;
election petitions and county politics, 407, 408;
first led to a Tory party in general politics, ii. 11, 12.

Corruption, political, by Sir Robert Walpole, and by Mr. Pelham, its
extent and difference, i. 231.

Cotton, Sir J., opposes the three shilling land-tax, but fails, i. 32;
his wit and politics, 33;
the last active jacobite, dies, i. 255.

County Addresses, vide _Addresses_.

Court of Inquiry, a remarkable one, connected with Byng’s affair,
ii. 285.

Court Martial on Admiral Byng, (vide _Admiralty--Navy--Byng_) desire
to be absolved from their oaths of secrecy, ii. 327;
vide _Keppel_--bill in parliament, 328, 351, 366.

Cowper, Dr., Dean of Durham, affair of the charges against the
prince’s tutors, i. 318.

Cox, Sir Richard, his character, and factious politics in Ireland,
i. 281, et seq.

Cresset, Mr., engaged in the education of Prince George, i. 284;
dissensions in that establishment, 289, et seq.

Crevelt, victory of, gained by Prince Ferdinand, iii. 127.

Critical Review, a libel in, punished at law, iii. 259.

Crowle, Mr., affair of the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham,
i. 17, 19;
parliamentary witticism, 21;
puns, _ibid._

Cumberland, H. R. H. William duke of, political connexion with Lord
Sandwich, i. 2;
affairs in Flanders, 2;
political and treasonable attacks on, 9;
restoration of military discipline, 38;
jealousy of the Prince of Wales, 72;
behaviour on his demise, 78;
popular suspicions, 98;
affair of the regency, and rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, 99;
his character, 100, et seq.;
quarrels with the Pelhams on the regency business, 104, 105;
the king’s feelings towards him expressed in conversation with Fox,
157;
accident in hunting, 212;
judicious conduct in regard to parties, 240;
gives his private encouragement to the opposition to the Saxon
treaty, 250;
takes offence at the bill for colonizing the forfeited estates, 262;
forms connexion with the Duke of Bedford, 263;
his advice to Fox on the ministerial arrangements after Pelham’s
death, 384;
injudicious conduct of the ministry towards him in the war in
America, 401;
his sentiments on a projected change of ministry in 1754, 419;
placed at the head of the regency, on the king’s visit to Hanover,
ii. 22;
error in ordering enlistment in Germany without the concurrence of
ministers, 156, 185;
unfair conduct towards regiments raised for home service, 203;
instance of moderation in command, 373;
becomes a favourite with the king, 376;
joins in the intrigues against Pitt, 377;
is appointed to command the army in Germany, 377, 379;
checks the confederacy against the King of Prussia, iii. 35;
but is forced to retire from Hanover, and defeated, though not
disgraced, at Hastenbecke, 36;
convention of Closter Seven, 58;
returns to England, 60;
offers to resign, 61;
repartee when his return to command is talked of, 233.

Cummins, John, an active jacobite, yet patronized, i. 266.

Cunnersdorf, battle of, and Prussians, defeated, iii. 203.

Cunningham, Captain, patriotic and spirited conduct of, at Minorca,
ii. 226.

Custrin, battle of, Russians defeated by the King of Prussia,
iii. 138.

Dacre, Lord, opposes the bill for Swiss troops, on constitutional
grounds, ii. 176.

Damiens, attempts to murder the King of France, but fails, and
suffers horrid tortures, ii. 281.

Dashwood, Sir Francis, disclaims Jacobitism in parliament, i. 10;
opposes the Regency Bill on the first reading, 122, 123;
anecdotes of, 123;
his exertions in the House of Commons in Byng’s case, ii. 318, 323,
et seq., 336.

Daun, Marshal, defeated at Lissa, iii. 80;
outmanœuvred by the King of Prussia, 292;
compelled to raise the siege of Schweidnitz, 295;
defeated at Torgau, 297.

Dauphin of France, father of Louis XVI., anecdotes and character of,
ii. 280; iii. 244.

Debt, national, iii. 151.

Delaval, Mr., makes a very absurd speech on the Regency Bill, i. 124.

Denbigh, Lord, attacks Lord Marchmont in the House, upon his
jacobitical principles, iii. 106.

Denmark, King of, takes offence at the preamble of an English mutiny
bill, i. 253.

Denmark, Queen of, daughter of George II., her death and character,
i. 227;
extraordinary policy of her husband, _ibid._

Dennis, Captain, one of Byng’s court-martial, makes application to
the throne for mercy, ii. 318.

Devonshire, Fourth Duke of, character and anecdotes of, i. 195;
consulted on choice of a premier on the death of Pelham, 378;
death, and conscientious qualification of his younger sons for the
House of Commons, ii. 86.

Devonshire, Fifth Duke of, (Lord Hartington), receives the king’s
commands to form a new ministry, ii. 263;
accepts the treasury, 268.

Dice and Cards taxed, ii. 177.

Dickinson, Lord Mayor, his cold and unfeeling conduct on proposed
petition in favour of Byng, ii. 368.

Digby, Captain (Admiral), gallantry of, in Hawke’s action, iii. 232.

Diggs, the actor, in Dublin, produces a riot by political allusions,
i. 389.

Divisions of the Commons, falsified by Potter, ii. 11;
extraordinary arrangement on the question of the German treaties,
61, et seq.

Doddington, his versatile politics, i. 87, 88;
G. B., Lord Melcombe, biographical notice of, 437;
gaming anecdote, 77;
further anecdotes, 88, 89;
impugns the justice of Byng’s sentence, in the House of Commons,
ii. 320;
supports the question of mercy towards Byng, in the House, 321, 339.

Doneraile, Lord, anecdote of, i. 75.

Dorset, Charles, Duke of, appointed viceroy of Ireland, i. 5;
anecdotes of, 96, 97;
his character and political government of Ireland, 279, et seq.;
his extreme moderation during the factious disputes in Ireland, 354,
368;
transactions respecting his removal from the viceroyship of Ireland,
ii. 10;
appointed master of the horse, 19;
attacked by the rioters on the Militia Bill, iii. 41.

Douglas, Dr., the opponent of Lander, assists the Earl of Bath in a
political letter, iii. 250.

Drury Lane Theatre, representation of Othello at, produces an
adjournment of the House of Commons, i. 61.

Dublin, tumults at, in consequence of a projected Irish union, in
1759, iii. 240.

Duke, the; see _Cumberland_.

Dukedoms refused by the Earls of Northampton and Aylesbury, and why,
ii. 272.

Duncannon, Lord, his share in Irish politics, ii. 19.

Dunkirk man-of-war, extraordinary chance in Hawke’s action, iii. 232.

Duplin, Lord, his share in the Newcastle administration, i. 388.

East Indies, affairs in 1757, iii. 57;
1758, 90, 217.

Edgecombe family, their opposition to the Sandwich interests in
Cornwall, ii. 11;
and first forms a Tory party, 12.

Edward, Prince, engages in the naval service, iii. 126, 133.

Egerton, Lady Sophia, most extraordinary anecdote of, respecting
Byng’s execution, ii. 371.

Egmont, Lord, opposes Address in 1751, i. 8;
suspicion of treason, 9;
parliamentary discussion, 11;
political intrigues in Westminster, 14;
opposes the Mutiny Bill, 35, 40;
anecdote of him, 35;
curious opposition manœuvre on death of the Prince of Wales, 80, 81;
proposes to Lord Bolingbroke the renewal of feudal tenures as a
popular act, 209;
ingenious speech on army estimates, 213;
speech against the Address, and opposition to the Mutiny Bill of
1753, 294, 295;
makes a ridiculous mistake in opposing the Mutiny Bill, 421;
is attacked by Charles Townshend, _ib._;
copy of the constitutional queries ascribed to him, i. 9, 427.

Egremont, Earl of, moves address of condolence on the death of the
Prince of Wales, i. 80;
declines to accept the seals on Pitt’s dismissal, iii. 2.

Epigram on Admiral Vernon, i. 100, 101.

Election Committees in the new parliament of 1754, i. 407.

Elections, general, policy of France respecting, in regard to the
Pretender’s cause, i. 122;
purity of, infringed by the people themselves, 355.

Elijah’s Mantle, a political allusion, borrowed by Walpole from a
poem by Sir C. H. Williams, i. 230.

Elliot, Commodore, engages and takes Thurot and squadron off the Isle
of Man, iii. 265.

Ellis, Welbore, political character, and parallel with Lord Barrington,
ii. 141, 142;
parliamentary tactics, by which Fox loses an important question,
iii. 27.

Eloquence, parliamentary, review of it, ii. 144, et seq.

Embden, political differences respecting the impressment of English
sailors out of, i. 261.

Empress-Queen, her politics in regard to Hungary and Austria, i. 241;
her inveteracy against Prussia, iii. 247.

Epitaph on a Swedish nobleman, i. 443, 444.

Erskine, Sir Henry, military and political debut, i. 41;
military and political attack on General Anstruther, 56, 63, 68;
is dismissed from the army for joining Mr. Pitt, and becomes an
oppositionist, ii. 150.

Exchequer, chancellorship, not to remain unoccupied, i. 378.

Excise, praised by Sir George Lyttelton, ii. 181.

Exotic plants principally introduced into England, by the Duke of
Argyle, i. 278.

Fane, Lord, prevails on the Duke of Bedford to coalesce with Fox, and
support the German treaties, ii. 47.

Fawcett, Mr., accuses the prince’s tutors of drinking the Pretender’s
health, i. 304.

Fazakerley, Mr., his activity in the first formation of the Tories as
a distinct party for general political purposes, ii. 12.

Ferdinand, Prince, drives the French out of Hanover, iii. 104;
victory of Crevelt, 127;
campaign of 1759, 188;
battle of Minden, 190;
pecuniary rewards from England, 238;
detaches a force in aid of Frederick, 248.

Ferrers, Earl of, his unhappy history and fate, iii. 257;
his trial, and execution for murder, 277, 278.

Feudal tenures, their restoration proposed by Lord Egmont as a popular
act, i. 209.

Fielding, H., dramatic attack on the king, i. 14;
writes on the police, 44.

Finch, Mr. Edward, character, anecdotes, and absurd reply to Lord
Pulteney, respecting the Czarina of Russia, ii. 120.

Fitzwilliam, Colonel, witty repartee of Colonel Townshend, i. 40;
indecent and absurd conduct in the House of Commons, in Byng’s case,
ii. 347.

Fleet weddings, their history, i. 338, 339.

Footmen and chairmen of London, Colonel Hale offers to lead them
against the best troops of France, iii. 234.

Forbes, Colonel, military anecdote of, ii. 373.

Forfeited estates in Scotland, proposed colonization by foreigners,
i. 62;
bill for the purchase from the crown, for national purposes, 256,
et seq.

Forgery, extraordinary instance of, relative to royal mercy, i. 175.

Fowke, General, tried and suspended, but broke by the king, for his
conduct at Gibraltar in Byng’s affair, ii. 229, vide _Byng_.

Fox, Mr., (Lord Holland,) conduct in the parliament of 1751, i. 8;
on the Westminster petition, display of wit and abilities, 15, 20;
decided conduct in Murray’s case, 27, 35;
ingratitude of Lord Egmont, 37;
his political consistency on the Naturalization Bill, 55;
parliamentary exertions in Anstruther’s case, 58;
increase of popularity in union with the Duke of Bedford, 61;
his opinion of Pitt, expressed in parliament, 62;
biographical anecdotes and character, 93, 94;
supports the Regency Bill, 132, 139;
contest with Solicitor-General Murray on that Bill, 149, 150;
conversation with the king on the Regency Bill, 157, 158;
political interference to save the Duke of Bedford from the plots
of the Pelhams, 185;
is solicited by Lord Granville to join the new ministry, after the
Duke of Bedford’s resignation, but refuses, 197;
conversations with the king and duke on the regency, 212;
proposes the army estimates, 213;
political feeling of Pelham, 254;
strenuous opposition to the Marriage Bill, 342;
his quarrel with the Lord Chancellor and the Yorke party, on the
Marriage Bill, 343;
his conversation with Pelham on that subject, 344;
conversation with the king respecting the same, 352;
looked to as a candidate for the premiership, 379;
becomes secretary of war, and manager of the House of Commons, 381;
new regulation of the secret service money, 382;
hurt by Newcastle’s breach of faith, declines office, 384, 385;
subsequent interview with the king, 386;
explanation with Pitt, 392;
joins Pitt in attacking the ministry, 410;
but softens on a conversation with the king, 417;
consents to abjure Pitt, and becomes a cabinet counsellor, 420;
excites a debate in the House, by proposing to sit on the
anniversary of Charles’ martyrdom, ii. 3;
supports Lord Sandwich’s borough interests in the House, 11;
opposed by the Tories, who now first appear as a political party
distinct from jacobitism, 12;
separates from Pitt on the Hanoverian question, 37;
agrees to support the German treaties and the Duke of Newcastle, 41,
et seq.;
his political history, 42;
vindicated, _ib._;
becomes secretary of state, 43;
insincerity of coalition, 45;
brings in the Bedford party, 47;
meets the Commons, 61;
censured in the House for circular letters to members, 63;
contest with Pitt on the naval estimates, 67, et seq.;
ditto on the army estimates, 90, 91;
defends Hume Campbell against Pitt’s attack, 116;
his friends objected to by the Duke of Newcastle, 141;
repeated sparring with Pitt, 152, et seq.;
debate respecting the Swiss battalions, 156, et seq.;
parliamentary squabble with Charles Townshend, 173;
conduct on the calling in of foreign troops, 184;
animadversion on, 214;
his political conduct respecting the Prince of Wales and Leicester
House, 221, et seq.;
rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, 251;
resigns, 252;
proposed coalition with Pitt, 254, et seq.;
extraordinary conversation with Pitt, 262;
various arrangements for his friends, and a peerage asked for his
wife and son, marks his intended politics in the Commons, 273,
274;
but refused by the king, _ib._;
disappointed in his political plans in regard to the Duke of
Devonshire, 276;
further political intrigues, 305, et seq.;
his conduct in Byng’s affair, 309, 312, 325;
speeches on the same in the House, 336, 344;
intrigues to dismiss Pitt from power, 377;
events leading to a change of ministry, 379;
supports the liberty of the press, 380;
gets the clerkship of the Pells in Ireland for himself and sons,
iii. 3;
political difference with Newcastle, 5;
intrigues of parties, 10, 11;
advice of Horace Walpole, 28;
accepts the pay-office, under Pitt and Newcastle, 31;
political intrigues between the latter and the Duke of Bedford, 181.

France, political duplicity and evasion in fulfilling treaties, i. 81;
extraordinary political proceedings on the birth of the Duke of
Burgundy, 203, 216, 217;
general view of her politics, policy, and power, in 1752,
illustrated in parliament, in regard to the Saxon treaty,
251, et seq.;
origin of the war that followed the death of Mr. Pelham, 393;
haughty reply to British remonstrances, ii. 2;
unfolds the mystery of her moderation, 150;
commences retaliation at sea, 155;
unpopularity of the war there, 176;
their financiers copying English plans, 182;
state of politics in 1757, and attempt upon the king’s life, 280,
281;
an army sent to the Rhine, 373;
ministerial revolutions, iii. 157;
affairs in North America, 169;
again threatens invasion, 184;
her perfidy, 222;
her bankruptcy, 223;
alarmed at her own reverses, proposes peace, 236.

Frederick, King of Prussia, political jealousy of, on the part of
George II., i. 104;
his junction with French policy in the affairs of Germany, and
attack upon British interests, 204, vide _Prussia_;
his successes in Bohemia, iii. 12;
defeats Marshal Brown in the battle of Prague, 14;
defeated by Count Daun, 36;
defeats the Russians, 57;
further victories, 80;
takes Breslau, 90;
opens a glorious campaign, 121, et seq.;
invades Bohemia, 138;
battle of Custrin, 138;
defeated at Hochkerchen, 148;
takes advantage of English liberality, 174;
campaign of 1759, 200;
saves Berlin, after defeat, 204.

French players, dislike of the populace to, i. 13.

---- driven from Quebec, iii. 283, 289.

Furnese, Harry, made a Lord of the Treasury, and why, ii. 141.

Galissoniere, the French Admiral, affair of, at Minorca, ii. 215, 225.

Gardiner, Luke, interferes in the party politics of Ireland, i. 356.

Garter, order of, honours granted on Pitt’s coming into administration,
ii. 274; iii. 34.

Gates (afterwards General), military and political anecdote, i. 400.

Geary, Capt. Francis, extraordinary conduct in regard to Byng’s trial,
ii. 343.

GEORGE I., anecdote of the cancelling of his will, iii. 308;
burnt his own queen’s will, 313;
notice of his mistresses, 315.

GEORGE II. Return from Hanover in 1751, i. 3;
harshness towards the South Sea Company, 6;
approves of the young Whigs in parliament, 21;
his patronage of General Anstruther, 61;
candid opinion respecting his ministers, 62;
refuses to hear Bishop Secker preach at the Royal Chapel, 65;
behaviour on the demise of the Prince of Wales, 78;
marked condescension and tenderness to the prince’s family, 83;
conduct on the regency settlement, 99;
anecdote of his love of money, 105;
observations on the Commons’ amendments to the Regency Bill, 157,
158;
extraordinary self-command under political differences, 174;
his character, 175;
curious anecdote of his love of money, 176;
dislike to Lord Sandwich, and why, 187;
change of ministry and triumph of the Pelhams, 194;
gives advice to the new minister, and a reprimand to the Pelhams,
198, 199;
conversation with Mr. Fox, on the Duke of Cumberland’s dangerous
accident, 212;
paternal feelings on the loss of his children, 227;
political interference with the election of the Romans, 240, 241;
visits Hanover in 1752, attended by the Duke of Newcastle, 278;
unlucky in his German alliances, 288;
returns to England, 289;
curbed by ministers in church preferments, 292;
his conduct respecting the charges against the prince’s tutors, 283,
309;
judicious conduct in the cabinet respecting the accusations against
Fox, on occasion of the Marriage Bill, 352;
haughty reply to Lord Kildare’s memorial on the affairs of Ireland,
355;
his political character and influence in the state towards the close
of his life, 376;
his feelings on the death of Pelham, 378;
his objections to Legge as a cabinet minister, 381;
conversation with Fox, on his declining the seals, 386;
also in regard to his partial opposition, 417;
informs the Commons of the French preparations for war, ii. 18;
determines to revisit Hanover, 20;
is alarmed for the safety of that electorate, 33, 34;
returns, just as opposition begins to the German treaties, 41;
comes to an accommodation with the King of Prussia respecting
Germany, 152;
his feelings towards Hanover, 170;
_bon mot_ of Doddington on his avarice, 186;
proposes taking the prince from his mother’s tuition, 207, et seq.;
his feelings on the change of ministry and Pitt’s accession to
power, 254, 266;
refuses to read Pitt’s long speech, and sends it back to be
shortened, 276;
sends a complimentary gratulation to the French king on his escape
from assassination, which is well received, 283;
deceived by the Newcastle administration in regard to Byng, 294, 306;
refuses Pitt’s solicitation for mercy, 331;
but consents to a temporary reprieve, _ib._;
his dislike to long speeches in the cabinet, 378;
left without a ministry in 1757, iii. 11;
Hanover occupied by the French, 12;
refuses their offer of neutrality for that electorate, _ib._;
demands support from parliament during the contests of parties for
power, 16;
his personal feelings strongly expressed, 30;
loses Hanover for a time, 36;
conduct on the affair of Closter Seven, 59;
anecdotes of munificence, 100;
prohibits Sackville’s appearance at court, 273;
death, 302;
character of, 303, 304, 305.

GEORGE III., vide _Prince George_.

German Treaties, and their consequences, ii. 34, et seq., 103.

Germany, political state of, in 1751, i. 7;
unfortunate turn of politics there, 81;
our politics in regard to the election of the Archduke Joseph of
Austria, as king of the Romans, 204;
affairs arranged with the King of Prussia, ii. 152;
Empress-Queen joins with France, 219, 220;
origin and causes of the war, 231, 232;
a French army sent to the Rhine, 373;
Hanover occupied by the French, its neutrality offered by them, but
rejected, iii. 12;
successes of the King of Prussia in Bohemia, 13;
campaign of 1757, 57;
convention of Closter Seven, 58;
campaign of 1758, 90;
successes of the King of Prussia and Prince Ferdinand, 123, 127,
et seq.;
state of the English army, 147;
advantages taken of English liberality, 174;
campaign of 1759, 188;
Pitt labours to increase our army there, 226;
objects of the war, 247;
campaign of 1760 in, 289-297.

Gibraltar, vide _Byng_, _Minorca_, and _Galissoniere_.

Gibson, the upholsterer, contumacy on the Westminster petition, i. 22;
committed to Newgate, _ib._;
petitions, is reprimanded and released, 32.

Gilbert, Archbishop, curious anecdote of, at York, ii. 374.

Gin Bill, proceedings on, i. 44, 66, 106.

Gooch, Bishop of Ely, political and ecclesiastical character, i. 148.

Goree, captured, iii. 169.

Gower, Lord, his political character, i. 188;
death and political influence, 422.

Gower family, connexion with the Bedfords, i. 3;
resentment of the Jacobites, 13;
Westminster politics, 17, et seq.;
connexion with the Pelham faction, in opposition to the Bedfords,
188;
resignation of Lord Trentham from the Admiralty, in opposition to
his father’s wishes, 192;
the young Lord Gower receives the privy seal, ii. 139.

Grafton, Duke of, political repartee, i. 48;
character of, and anecdotes, 180, 181.

Granby, Marquis of, observations on the affair of the Highland
regiments, ii. 301;
appointed Colonel of the Blues, and serves at St. Maloes, iii. 124;
second in command in Germany, 147;
battle of Minden, 194, et seq.

Granville, Lord, political retrospect in 1746, i. 6, 9;
further, 105;
in a speech on committal of the Regency Bill, developes the
insidious policy of the French court, 121, 122;
character and anecdotes of, 168, 197;
political administration, 170;
suspected of jacobitism, _ibid._;
dislike to Pitt, 170;
his conduct during the rebellion, 171, et seq.;
becomes president of the council, 194;
judicious and well-timed speech on the Saxon treaty, 252, 253;
refuses the premiership, when offered to him by the Duke of
Newcastle, ii. 43.

Gray, Mr., his election petition from Colchester, i. 409.

Gray, the poet, declines the laureateship, iii. 82.

Great Seal put in commission, ii. 273.

Grenville interest, parliamentary conduct in 1751, i. 13.

Grenville, George, opens charges in the House of Commons of bribery
on the part of France, ii. 82.

Grierson, Mr., a minister, convicted of illegal marriages, and 1400
dissolved thereby, ii. 155.

Guadaloupe, capture of, iii. 170.

Guerini, Father, character of, ii. 408.

Habeas Corpus, affair of, in Parliament, iii. 101, 103, 112.

Hale, Colonel, offers to lead the footmen and chairmen of London
against the best troops of France, iii. 234.

Half-pay officers in the army, first subjected to military law, i. 38.

Halifax, Lord, attempts to bring the West Indian Colonies under the
Board of Trade, i. 199, 220;
character, 397;
supports the Saxon treaty in the House of Lords, 251;
his exertions at the Board of Trade, to save the colonies from the
ignorance of his colleagues, 397;
supports Byng’s cause in the House of Lords, ii. 353.

Hamilton, Lady Archibald, anecdote of, i. 74.

Hamilton, Sir James, an Irish patriot, his honesty, i. 368.

Hamilton, William Gerard, his extraordinary introduction into
political life, ii. 44;
first speech, 51;
in office, 140.

Hampden, Mr., parliamentary attack upon Pitt and Lyttelton, i. 18.

Hampshire, an election there betrays Lord Bute’s secret politics,
under the auspices of the Prince’s influence, iii. 237.

Hanover, the King’s return from, in 1751, i. 1, 3;
political pamphlets respecting, 11;
political regulations and jealousies respecting, on the regency
question, 104;
its dangers from French invasion, and the king’s consequent alarm,
ii. 33, 34;
occupied by the French, its neutrality offered by them, but rejected
by the king, iii. 12;
occupied by the French in 1758, 104.

Hanoverian troops sent for, to guard against invasion, ii. 186.

Harcourt, Lord, appointed governor of Prince George, i. 86;
punctilious nicety in the education of Prince George, 284;
his loss of royal favour, 289, et seq.;
his speech on the charges against the prince’s tutors, 323.

Hard labour in the dock-yards proposed, to commute transportation,
i. 255.

Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, draws up the Regency Bill; its despotic
character, i. 115;
his speech, 120;
political character and anecdotes, 158, 159;
reasons for his conduct on the affair of the regency, 160;
political intimacy with the Duke of Newcastle, 161;
his speech in reply to the Duke of Bedford, on the Scottish
Colonization Bill, 268;
his conduct in the affair of Fawcett’s accusation against the
Solicitor-General, for drinking the Pretender’s health, 309;
speech on the affair of the charges against the prince’s tutors,
321;
his speech on passing the Marriage Bill, 348;
resigns the seals on Pitt’s coming into administration in 1756,
ii. 273;
his conduct in regard to Admiral Byng’s trial, 317;
refuses the seals on Pitt’s coalition with Fox, iii. 33;
opposes the Militia Bill, 40.

Harley, Lord, speech on the Regency Bill, i. 144;
moves for declaring against subsidiary treaties in time of peace,
254.

HARRINGTON, Earl of, (William) political and biographical notice of,
i. 3, et seq., _notes_.

Harris, commissioner of wine licences, violent speech in the Commons
on the abolition of his office, ii. 375.

Hartington, Lord, political manœuvre between Pitt and the Whigs, i. 13;
Westminster petition, 19, 20;
his share in the ministerial negotiations on the death of Pelham,
381;
succeeds the Duke of Dorset as Irish Viceroy, ii. 3, 18, 20, 23.
--Vide _Devonshire_.

Hastenbecke, battle of, and defeat of the Duke of Cumberland, iii. 36.

Havre-de-Grace bombarded, iii. 186.

Hawke, Sir Edward, his naval operations, ii. 32;
sent to supersede Byng in the Mediterranean, 215;
takes the naval command in the expedition to Rochfort, iii. 50;
attacks the French fleet under Conflans, and destroys them, 231.

Hawley, General, his military severity, i. 103;
selected as the propagator of a pretended memorial on the prince’s
education, and why, 302.

Hayter, Dr., vide _Norwich_ (Bp. of).

Heinnech, Monsieur, notice of, ii. 408, 409.

Henley, afterwards Lord Northington, character of, i. 96;
impartial exercise of his office as a member of parliament, 108;
appointed lord keeper in the Pitt and Newcastle administration, in
1757, iii. 33.

Hensey, Dr., convicted of treason, iii. 130.

Herring, Archbishop, political and ecclesiastical character, i. 148;
interference in, and intrigues respecting, the education of the
princes, 283, 290, et seq.;
death and character, ii. 374.

Hertford, Earl of, appointed ambassador to Paris, in 1755, and why,
ii. 2.

Hesse-Cassel, Prince of, turns papist, i. 405.

Hessian troops, sent for to assist against invasion, ii. 155, 185.

Highland regiments raised for American service, ii. 300.

Highlands of Scotland, defended from the charge of jacobitism in the
House of Commons, as early as 1754, ii. 15.

Hillsborough, Lord, parliamentary character, i. 80;
speech on the Regency Bill, 145;
supports the Bill for the purchase and colonization of the Scottish
forfeited estates, 259;
political error and delay in the debate on the German treaties,
ii. 49;
projects a union of Ireland with Great Britain as early as 1757,
iii. 239.

History, observations on, i. 373, et seq.

Hoadley, Bishop, political excellence, i. 148.

Hochkerchen, battle of, iii. 148.

Holbourn, Admiral, commands on the American station, iii. 40.

Holderness, Earl of, character and accession to power, i. 198;
disgrace at court for playing at blindman’s buff, 289;
becomes secretary of state in Pitt’s administration in 1757,
iii. 31;
extraordinary notification to Lord G. Sackville, on his demand of a
court martial, 251;
further proceedings, 252.

Holland, Lord, vide _Fox_.

----, extraordinary change of politics there, on the death of the
Prince of Orange, i. 207;
disputes with, in 1758, iii. 139, 169.

Holmes, Captain Charles, unhappy misunderstandings on the question of
Byng’s court-martial, ii. 340, 342.