Chapter XXIV: Appendix: (Vide page 309.) (3)

Home, Lord, parliamentary quarrel with A. H. Campbell, i. 19.

Home, the author of _Douglas_, pensioned by the Princess dowager,
iii. 39.

Horn Tavern, the, remarkable as the first place of meeting of the
Tories, as a distinct political party for general purposes,
ii. 12.

Howe, Captain, commences the naval war with France by the capture of
three ships of war, ii. 27;
naval and political character, expedition to Rochfort, iii. 50, 51.

Howe, Lord, succeeds to the title, on the fall of his brother,
iii. 135;
gallantry in Hawke’s action, 232.

Hume of Munderson, Mr., a furious jacobite in Scotland, yet
patronized, i. 266.

Hutchinson, Hely, his Irish politics, iii. 245, 246.

Hutton, Archbishop, i. 148;
promoted to Canterbury, ii. 374.

Invasion of England threatened by a French armament in the Isle of
Rhée, ii. 20;
threats of, by France, in 1759, iii. 186;
general plan of, defeated by Hawke’s victory, 232;
French measures pursued in Ireland in aid of it, 239, 244.

Ireland, removal of Lord Harrington from viceroyship, i. 5;
appointment thereto of the Duke of Dorset, 5;
judicious observations of Lord Hillsborough on the Protestant
settling of mountain districts, 260;
affairs in 1752, and history of the factions there, 278, et seq.;
further troubles, 354;
intrigues in parliament, 356;
factious disputes, 362, 363;
successes of opposition, 367, et seq.;
theatrical and political riots, 389;
results of the Newcastle administration, 390;
Lord Hartington succeeds the Duke of Dorset, ii. 3, 18;
its state in 1755, 23;
general politics on the arrival of Lord Hartington, 23, et seq.;
division of the vice-treasurership, 153;
state of, in 1756, 183;
a change of ministry gives the viceroyship to the Duke of Bedford,
271;
affairs in 1757, iii. 14, 68, 69;
violence of parties in 1758, 91;
proposed union in 1759, 239;
Thurot’s piratical expedition, 262, et seq.

Irish parliament, experiments tried on it by Hely Hutchinson, and
anecdote of Sir Richard Cox, iii. 245, 246.

Isle of Aix, expedition to, iii. 48, et seq.

Jacobites, supposed political attack on the Duke of Cumberland, i. 9;
dislike to the Gowers, 13;
their activity and caution on the Westminster election, 17;
their ingenuity in saving their consciences under oaths and
salaries, 33;
death of the last active one, Sir John Cotton, 255;
anecdotes of their conduct in the rebellion in Scotland, and
subsequent patronage, 266.

Jacobitism silenced towards the year 1752, i. 239;
receives its death blow by the Tories uniting for party politics
distinct from the question of the Stuart succession, ii. 12,
et seq.

Jamaica, charges of tyranny at, against admiral Knowles, but they
fail, ii. 152.

Jansen, Alderman, defends the conduct of the sheriffs in releasing
Murray from Newgate, i. 212.

Jenyns, Soames, comes into office, ii. 140.

Jesuits, their state and opinions in France and the attempted murder
of Louis XV., ii. 279, et seq.;
their influence in Portugal, and its consequences to their Order,
iii. 142, et seq.

Jew Bill of Naturalization, warm opposition to, i. 357, et seq.

Jews exempted in the Marriage Bill, i. 340.

Johnson, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, proposed as preceptor to the
princes, i. 291, 314.

Johnson, Sir William, gains a victory in Canada, ii. 46.

Jones, Neville, his prosecution in Ireland, through party principles,
i. 280, 364.

Justice, instance of political, in Pitt’s conduct on Byng’s affair,
ii. 349.

Kaunitz, Count, politics and foppish effeminacy, ii. 234.

Keene, Sir Benjamin, diplomatic services at the court of Spain,
previous to the war of 1756, i. 398; ii. 33.

Keith, the Mayfair parson, anecdotes of his marriages and burials,
i. 339.

Keppel, Captain, afterwards admiral, one of Byng’s court-martial, his
feelings on the approaching execution, ii. 339, 348;
requests to be absolved from his oath, 334, 349, 364;
gallantry in Hawke’s action, iii. 232.

Kildare, Earl of, presents a memorial to the King against the Duke of
Dorset, i. 354;
party politics during the Bedford administration, in Ireland,
iii. 72, et seq., 95, et seq.

King, Dr., anecdote of, ii. 374.

Knowles, Admiral, charged by Beckford with tyranny in Jamaica, but
cleared triumphantly in the House, ii. 152.

Lancaster, duchy of, regulations of that office, and political demands
for it, iii. 23.

Land Tax of three shillings opposed, but carried, i. 32;
moved by Pelham, accompanied by a pitiful system of national policy,
218, et seq.

Laudohn, Marshal, defeated by the King of Prussia, iii. 294.

Lawyers, parliamentary character of, in politics, i. 149.

Lee, Sir George, anecdotes of, i. 90, 91;
biographical notice of, _ib._;
political errors, in the debate on army estimates, 214;
as lord chief justice appointed chancellor of the exchequer _pro
tempore_, on the death of Pelham, 378;
quits Leicester-house politics, disgusted by Pitt’s influence with
the princess dowager, iii. 28.

Legge, H. B., Lord Stawell, character and anecdotes, i. 190, 191;
becomes chancellor of the exchequer under the Duke of Newcastle,
381;
refuses to sign the German subsidiary treaties, in opposition to
the Duke of Newcastle, ii. 35;
his share in the changes of administration on the Duke of
Newcastle’s resignation, 265;
humane observations in the House of Commons pending the question of
Byng’s trial, 340;
offers the House of Commons to serve in office without salary,
provided others would, 375.

Leicester-House politics, influence and interference in ministerial
arrangements, on the rupture of Pitt and Fox, ii. 39.

Leveson, William, political independence and loss of patronage,
i. 226.

Louis XV., extraordinary change of feeling in France towards him in
old age, i. 216, et seq.;
some notices of his amours, and their whimsical results, 334, 335;
his contests with the parliament of Paris; loss of popularity, and
attempted assassination, ii. 280, et seq.

Libels, extraordinary conduct of Lord Mansfield, respecting one on
the Princess Amelia, ii. 221.

Ligonier, General, obliges the king with a church-living, i. 292;
loses the ordnance to make room for the Duke of Marlborough, ii. 139;
his character and services, _ib._

Limerick, James, Viscount, political character, i. 25;
political censure and animadversions on the Regency Bill, 142, 143.

Lincoln, Lord, political character of, i. 85.

Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake, ii. 77;
assisted by the parliament, 78.

Litchfield, Lord, his political character, iii. 166.

Lochiel, Laird of, his share in the rebellion, i. 353.

London, Bishop of, objects to the despotic powers granted by the
Regency Bill, i. 115.

London, City of, invidious remarks of Lord Nugent on the question of
the Gin Bill, i. 44;
conduct of the sheriffs in releasing Murray from Newgate impugned
in the House and defended by Jansen, 211, 212;
absurdity of its politics during the contest for power between Pitt,
Fox, and Newcastle, ii. 264;
a petition in favour of Admiral Byng proposed by four Tory aldermen,
and fails, 368.

Lonsdale, Henry, Viscount, death and character, i. 20.

LORDS, House of, session of 1751, i. 8;
affair of the constitutional queries, 10;
bill brought in to reform the old style, 50;
address of condolence on demise of the Princess of Wales, 80;
alterations in the Regency Bill, 115;
go into committee on the bill, 116;
third reading of the bill, 122;
amendments from the Commons to the Regency Bill, explained and
agreed to, 156;
close of the session, 200;
a new session opens, 208;
adjournment and remarkable cessation of opposition, 228;
House meets in 1752, 241;
Saxon treaty debated, 244;
opposition by the Duke of Bedford, _ib._;
state of parties in the House, 263;
bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, opposed by the
Duke of Bedford, 264;
prorogation, 275;
session of 1753, 293;
affair of the prince’s education brought forward by the Duke of
Bedford, 310, 329;
affair of the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.;
bill for naturalizing the Jews, 359;
absurd motion of Lord Powlet on the King’s going to Hanover, ii. 20;
proceedings on the coalition of Fox and Bedford, the German
treaties, French war, &c., 48, 103, et seq.;
debates on the Swiss regiments for American service, 175;
Militia Bill rejected, 202;
a speaker chosen, on the resignation of the lord chancellor, 274;
punish the author of a spurious royal speech, 277;
affairs of Byng’s court-martial, and bill from the Commons to
absolve the court from oath of secrecy, 351;
debates, _ib._ et seq.;
bill dropped, 366;
engaged on the Militia Bill, iii. 11;
affair of the Navy Bill, 105;
Habeas Corpus, 112.

Lottery, a guinea one, proposed for the supplies, in Pitt’s
administration, ii. 301.

Loudun, Earl of; comments on America, iii. 39, 40.

Lovat, Lord, erroneous declaration before the peers, as to his
Scottish estates, i. 257.

Love-à-la-mode, its performance opposed by Lord Bute, but in vain,
iii. 250;
its copy sent for by the king, and read to him, _ib._

Loyd, Sir Richard, judicious observations on Anstruther’s case, and
on the Act of Grace, i. 108.

Lucas, Mr. or Dr., at the head of the discontented in Ireland, i. 279.

Lyttelton, Col. R., disclaims jacobitism in parliament, i. 10;
opposes the Mutiny Bill, 38;
political anecdotes of himself and family, ii. 307.

Lyttelton, George, Lord, character of, i. 39;
political intrigues discovered by the opening of a letter, 201, 202;
his character, _ib._;
joins the Newcastle administration, and manages for his friends,
387;
breach with Pitt, its history and anecdotes, 414, 416;
becomes chancellor of the exchequer, over the ruins of his old
friends, ii. 63;
again courts Pitt, 102;
awkwardness at first moving the supplies as chancellor, and
squabble with Pitt, 153;
made a peer, 272;
introduced by Smollett, in very abusive terms, in Roderick Random,
iii. 259.

Macklyn, ludicrous anecdote of his Love-à-la-mode, iii. 250.

Madox, Dr. (Bishop of Worcester), speech on the charges against the
Prince’s tutors, i. 331;
death and eminent clerical character, iii. 215.

Malagrida, the Jesuit, his conduct and fate, iii. 145;
vide _Portugal_.

Malone, Mr., his character and factious politics in Ireland, i. 282.

Mansfield, Earl of, vide _Murray_.

Marchmont, Earl of, difference as a speaker in court-favour and in
opposition, i. 293;
unprecedented severity of conduct in the Lords upon Byng’s affair,
ii. 366.

Marlborough, Charles, Duke of, takes parliamentary notice of the
Jacobite attack on the Duke of Cumberland, i. 10;
his speech on the charges against the prince’s tutors, 328;
interferes in county election in Oxfordshire, 406;
in projected ministerial changes, 419;
commands in the expedition to St. Maloes, iii. 124;
its effects upon the German campaign, 127.

Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, her political feelings in death,
i. 53.

Marriage Bill sent down from the Lords; further and final proceedings
thereon, i. 340, et seq.;
its history, _ib._

Marriages dissolved in a most unfeeling manner, to an immense amount,
by virtue of the new Act, ii. 155.

Marriages, royal, first controlled by legal enactment in the Regency
Bill, i. 146.

Martin, Mr., his political inconsistency on the Regency Bill, &c.,
i. 136.

Martin, Mr., (the West Indian), his speech against standing armies,
i. 26;
opposes the repeal of the Plantation Act, 364.

Martinico, miscarriage at, iii. 170.

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

Masquerades, abolished on account of the Lisbon earthquake, iii. 98.

Mayfair weddings, their history, i. 338.

Meat, proposed excise on it, ii. 181.

Methodism, its effects on society, iii. 97, et seq.

Memoirs, contemporary, their value; Voltaire’s opinion on, iii. 249.

Middlesex, county of, accused of jacobitism in the House of Commons,
ii. 15.

Middlesex, Lord, character and appointment in the princess’s
household, i. 96.

Middlesex, Lady, anecdotes of, i. 76.

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, his controversial writings attacking
Christianity, i. 147.

Militia recommended by Fox on the opening of the war, ii. 97, et seq.;
riots throughout the kingdom, in the apprehension of the regiments
being sent abroad, iii. 41;
plan first proposed to march them out of their counties in case of
invasion, 184.

Militia Bill for Scotland, parliamentary proceedings on, iii. 280.

Minden, battle of, iii. 191, et seq.;
vide _Sackville_.

Ministry, expected changes in 1751, i. 1, et seq.;
whimsical candour of George II., 62;
differences between the Bedford and Newcastle parties, 81;
affair of the regency on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales,
104, et seq.;
political neglect of the Duke of Bedford in the cabinet by the
Pelhams, 161, 162;
further intrigues of the Pelhams to displace the Duke of Bedford,
184, et seq.;
dismissal of Lord Sandwich, through the Pelham interest, 190;
change of ministry, and resignation of the Duke of Bedford, 194;
conduct and character of the Pelhams in regard to foreign affairs
and to national insults, 204;
state of politics at the opening of 1752, 239;
opposition of the Pelhams by the Duke of Bedford, 242;
proposed policy for tranquillizing Scotland, 268, et seq.;
manœuvres of opposition in 1753, 298, et seq.;
difference of opinion in the cabinet on the pretended memorial
respecting the prince’s education, 304;
differences of Fox and the chancellor on the Marriage Bill, 342;
forced to repeal the Jew Naturalization Bill, 359, et seq.;
death of Mr. Pelham, and its consequences, 370, et seq., 378;
difficulties in appointing his successor, _ib._;
new one formed, 387;
pacific character of the Pelham and Newcastle administrations,
leads to insults and encroachments on the part of France, 392;
extraordinary conduct of the Newcastle administration when the
French began the war in America, 400;
appearances of opposition in parliament, 407;
alarm at Pitt’s opposition, 417;
projected changes in, 418;
approaching war with France; changes in consequence of the death of
Lord Gower, ii. 2;
the Newcastle administration first supported by the Tories, on
their uniting as a political party, distinct from jacobitism,
12;
political manœuvre to silence Fox, 21;
divisions in the cabinet against the Duke of Newcastle on the
German subsidiary treaties, 35;
disunion of Fox and Pitt, 37;
refusal of Pitt, and consent of Fox, to support the German treaties,
41, et seq.;
decline of Newcastle’s power, and coalition of Fox with the Bedford
party, 45, 46, et seq.;
further changes in favour of the Bedford party, 139, 140;
heavy charges of pensions in consequence, 143;
state of, at the breaking out of the war, 154;
divisions on the calling in of foreign troops, 184;
conduct in the affair of Byng, 190, 194, et seq., 208;
Fox’s resignation, and its consequences, 252, et seq.;
resignation of the Duke of Newcastle, and Pitt’s accession to power,
272, et seq.;
changes settled, 274;
state of the cabinet, 284;
events leading to the dismissal of Pitt and his friends, 376, 377;
new administration, iii. 2;
difficulties in its formation, 11, 24, 26;
Pitt and Newcastle again come in, 31;
political review of Pitt’s administration, 84;
and cabinet, 85;
jealousies of Newcastle, 181;
resignation of Lord Temple, 228.

Minorca, affairs of courts-martial under Gen. Anstruther brought
before parliament, i. 42, 56, et seq.;
debates respecting its defence, ii. 70;
attacked by the French, 190, 209, et seq., 217, vide _Byng_;
parliamentary inquiry into its loss, iii. 7, et seq.

Mirepoix, Mons. de, French ambassador, returns without taking leave,
ii. 28;
his character, i. 203;
disliked by the Pelhams, 204.

Mobs in Ireland; their rejoicings on the success of the Castle
opposition in 1753, i. 367.

Monks of Portugal, their ingenuity in smuggling money on board of
English ships of war, i. 256.

Montcalm, General, vide _Quebec_.

Montreal taken from the French, iii. 288.

Moore, Captain, one of Byng’s judges, joins in an application to the
throne for mercy, ii. 318.

Mordaunt, Sir John, his character, i. 110;
opposes the parliamentary purchase of the forfeited estates, 258;
entrusted with the attack on Rochfort, iii. 45, et seq.;
inquiry, 75.

Moyenska, Countess, notice of, ii. 410.

Munchausen, Baron, the Hanoverian minister in England, his conduct on
the affair of Closter Seven, iii. 60.

Murphy, Miss, supplants Madame Pompadour in the heart of Louis XV.,
and produces a whimsical alarm, i. 334.

Murray, Mr. A., conduct on the Westminster election, i. 17, et seq.,
22;
refuses to kneel, 29;
further proceedings in the House upon his case, 34, 35;
further insolence towards the House of Commons, 85;
Habeas Corpus granted by the Court of King’s Bench, 114;
but is remanded, 115;
released from Newgate on the prorogation of the House of Commons,
201;
but is remanded in the ensuing session, 208;
absconds, 211.

Murray, James (nominal Earl of Dunbar), his character and politics in
service of the Pretender, i. 286.

Murray, Lord John, his prudence in regard to political attack, i. 44.

Murray, Solicitor-General (Lord Mansfield), supports the Bavarian
subsidy, i. 48;
speech on second reading of the Regency Bill, 131;
parliamentary contest with Fox on the Regency Bill, 150;
affair of the dissensions on the education of the young princes,
284, 290, et seq.;
drinking the Pretender’s health, 305;
his elaborate and well-written confutation of the French memorial
on the Silesian loan, 297;
looked to as a candidate for the premiership on Pelham’s death, 379;
becomes lord chief justice, and is made a peer, anecdotes, &c.,
ii. 223, 227;
his conduct on the bill for absolving Byng’s court-martial; severe
conduct towards Byng, with observations, 351, 352.

Murray, General, defeated at Quebec, iii. 284.

Mutiny Bill, modern opposition to, i. 35, et seq.;
curious question of the King of Denmark in regard to its preamble,
253.

Names of princes, taken from English history, curious anecdote of,
i. 201.

Naples, affairs of, on the death of the King of Spain, iii. 205.

National debt, observations on, in 1758, iii. 151.

Naturalization Bill brought forward, i. 44, 54;
thrown out, 92.

Navy, diminished number of seamen voted, i. 17;
Lord Anson proposes a severe naval code, but fails, 38;
an increased vote of seamen proposed by Lord Barrington, 211;
approaching war with France, ii. 1;
a fleet ordered to watch the French motions in America, 22;
vote for seamen, 67;
debates on a Prize Bill, 78;
state of naval force at the opening of the war, 195;
consequences of Byng’s trial, 295;
affair of the Navy Bill, iii. 105.

Newcastle, Duke of, disagreement with the Duke of Bedford, i. 1;
betrays the interests of the South Sea Company in the treaty with
Spain, 7;
political adoption of intrepidity, 9;
political and family differences, 47;
conduct on regency question after demise of the Prince of Wales, 99;
speech on the committal of the Regency Bill, 120;
political anecdote in forming the bill, 128;
explains the Commons’ amendments to the Lords, and carries the bill,
156;
his power secured, 161;
his character and anecdotes, 162, 163;
political ingratitude to Sir Robert Walpole, 164;
further anecdotes, 183;
fear of the sea, and whimsical expedition to Hanover, 184;
dismisses Lord Sandwich from office, 190;
produces the resignation of the Duke of Bedford, 193;
jealousy of Mr. Fox, on an illness of the Duke of Cumberland, 213;
his inferiority as a politician, 239;
political influence at opening of 1752, and why, 239, 240;
inefficient reply to the opposition of the Duke of Bedford on the
Saxon treaty, 247;
debate on the Scottish Colonization Bill, and inefficient answer to
the Duke of Bedford, 274;
whimsical mode of guarding against the dangers of the sea, on a
visit to Hanover, 278;
his alarm at the pretended memorial respecting the education of the
Prince of Wales, 302;
his long and very extraordinary speech in the House on that affair,
327;
parliamentary sparring with the Duke of Bedford, 329;
moves the repeal of the Jew Naturalization Bill, 359;
Walpolian sarcasms, 373;
becomes first minister on the death of his brother, 381;
reserves the management of the secret-service money in his own
hands, 382;
perfidy and breach of promise to Fox, 384;
his political inefficiency, 388;
striking inattention to colonial affairs while secretary of state,
396;
geographical and political ignorance, 396;
professes to remove abuses, yet encourages them, 399;
secret instigator of the law-suit respecting Richmond Park, 401;
alarmed by the conduct of Pitt, 415;
receives the support of the Tories, who now first unite as a
political party, distinct from jacobitism, ii. 12, et seq.;
interference in the appointment of the temporary regency, on the
king’s visit to Hanover, 22;
conduct on Irish politics, 25, et seq.;
first decline of his power on the subsidiary German treaties, 35,
43, 45;
tampers with Pitt for their support, but fails, 40, 41;
applies to Fox, and succeeds, 41;
offers to resign in a fright, 43;
objects to Fox’s friends, 141;
heavy charges of pensions brought on the nation by his caprices,
143;
conduct on the calling in of foreign troops, 184;
his plan of separating the prince from his mother, &c., 221;
political fears of quarrelling with Leicester-house, 249;
affair of Fox’s resignation, 252;
resolves to resign, 262;
resigns, 272;
extraordinary story in regard to Byng’s affair, 285;
another most extraordinary anecdote respecting the duchess in that
affair, 371;
political difference with Fox, iii. 3;
approaches of Pitt towards conciliation, 4;
further negotiations, 11, 15;
political character and irresolution, 21;
comes again into power with Pitt, 31;
differences and anecdotes, 95;
influence of office under Pitt, 174;
grows jealous of him, 181;
conduct towards Lord G. Sackville, 254.

Newcastle, Duchess of, most extraordinary anecdote respecting Byng’s
execution, ii. 371.

Newdigate, Sir Roger, his speech for the repeal of the Plantation Act,
i. 365.

Newmarket, its sports set in the balance against the affairs of the
nation, ii. 380.

New Road first proposed, but objected to, ii. 186;
carried, and afterwards extended by its opponents, 187.

Niagara taken by Sir William Johnson, iii. 211.

Norris, Admiral, strange incompetency when examined before the Lords,
in Byng’s case, ii. 362.

North, Lord, his character, and removal from governorship of Prince
George, i. 86.

Northumberland, Earl of, moves address in the House of Lords, in 1751,
i. 8;
gives a pointed refusal of resignation to the Duke of Newcastle,
iii. 27.

Norwich, Bishop of, engaged in the education of the Prince of Wales,
i. 87, 283;
dissensions in that establishment, 289;
speech in Parliament, 325.

Notes of parliamentary debates first mentioned in the House of
Commons, ii. 108.

Nova Scotia, affairs of, i. 62, 68, 81.

Nugent, Lord, absurd parliamentary conduct, i. 20;
his character, and anecdotes, 45, 46;
refused by the people of Bristol as the king’s nominee, under most
unprecedented circumstances, 355;
his absurd speech, defending ministers against the attacks of Pitt,
ii. 92;
his parliamentary conduct on Byng’s affair, 336, 338.

Oleron, attack on, iii. 54.

Onslow, Mr. Speaker, witty remark on his official conduct, i. 21;
reprimands Mr. Crowle on the Westminster election, _ib._;
quarrels with Lord Coke, 28;
contemptuous treatment of him by Mr. Murray, 29, 30;
impressive speech on the Regency Bill, 126;
his character, 129;
spiritedly rebuked by Pitt in the debate on Byng’s affair, ii. 350;
attacked by the rioters on the Militia Bill, iii. 41;
speech on the Scottish Sheriff Depute Bill, ii. 15.

Opposition, remarkable cessation of, i. 228, 239;
a systematic one now commences, ii. 151;
junction of Pitt’s friends and the Tories against the new Fox
administration, iii. 3.

Orange, Prince of, his death, and anecdotes of his marriage, i. 206;
political consequences in Holland, 207.

Orange, Princess of, her extraordinary marriage, i. 206;
ambition, character, and politics, 207, 208.

Oratorical Club, a school for rhetoric, i. 42.

Oratory, parliamentary, its difference under court-favour, or in
opposition, i. 293.

Ordnance, master-general of, pay first raised to 10_s._ per day by
the Duke of Marlborough, in 1757, ii. 303.

Orford, second Earl of, his death, i. 84.

Orford, Lord, anecdote of, and the Duke of Newcastle, iii. 30.

Orleans, Père d’, his book causes dissensions at Leicester-house,
i. 289.

Oswald, Mr. Commissioner, parliamentary debut and progress, i. 59.

Oxfordshire, a little kingdom of jacobitism, i. 406;
election, political manœuvres relating to it in the House of
Commons, first bring into play the modern party designation
of Whigs and Tories, distinct from the question of the Stuart
succession, ii. 12, 20.

Oxford University, attacked by Pitt in the House of Commons with
charges of jacobitism, i. 413;
contest for the chancellorship on the death of the Earl of Arran,
iii. 166.

Parliament, meets in 1751, i. 8;
proceedings respecting the treasonable papers attacking the Duke of
Cumberland, 10;
debate on diminished vote of seamen, 12, 17;
transactions on the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham, 13,
et seq.;
witty observation of Mr. Crowle at the bar of the Commons, 21;
Murray brought to the bar, 22;
refuses to kneel, and is re-committed to Newgate, 29;
debate on the staff, 31;
--see further _Lords_ and _Commons_--
regency business arranged, 115, et seq.;
political character of lawyers in the legislature, 149, 150;
the session ended, and the political consequence, 200;
a new session opens, in 1751, 208;
adjournment, and remarkable cessation of opposition, 228, 239;
opens after the recess, in 1752, 241;
consideration of the treaty with Saxony, 242;
colonization of the Scottish forfeited estates, 256, et seq.;
bill passes the Lords, 275;
prorogation, _ib._;
session of 1753, 293, et seq.;
affair of the charges against the prince’s tutors, 303, et seq.;
proceedings on the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.;
opens again with the Jew Bill, 357;
adjourns on Pelham’s death, 378;
dissolved under the Newcastle administration, and an accommodating
new one chosen, 391;
session of 1754 opens, 403;
first union of the Tories as a party for general political purposes,
and thereby forming the leading distinctions of Whig and Tory
in the state, without reference to the Stuart succession,
ii. 12;
first meeting after the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 48;
first notice of reporters and taking of notes in the Commons, 108;
eloquence reviewed, 144, et seq.;
session of 1756 opens, 150;
meeting after Pitt’s coming into power, 276;
its support demanded by the king during the contests of parties,
iii. 16;
session of 1758, 87, 149;
session of 1759, 224.

Parliamentary orators of 1755, characters of, ii. 145, 148.

Party feeling, extraordinary instance of, i. 183.

Parties, state of, in the year 1752, i. 262, 263.

Patriots, spurious, how made, and why, i. 33.

Peerages, refusal of one in Ireland, and why, i. 282.

Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, his political suavity, i. 3;
parliamentary discussion on the constitutional queries, 11;
political inconsistency, 18;
financial expertness, 32;
political and family differences, 47;
proposes the subsidy to Bavaria, 48;
excites surprise by supporting the Naturalization Bill, 54;
conduct in regard to the auditorship of the exchequer, 84, 85;
conduct on the regency affair, in regard to the Princess of Wales,
104;
carries the bill on a first reading, 122;
his feelings on the opposition of Speaker Onslow, 128;
speech on third reading of the Regency Bill, 153, 154, 155;
power secured by the passing of that bill, 161;
political character and anecdotes, 166, 183;
intrigues against Lord Sandwich, 188;
his political and private character exposed to the king by the Duke
of Bedford, 193;
hurt by Lord Trentham’s resignation and reproaches, 194;
unhandsome conduct in regard to private correspondence, 202;
jealousy of Mr. Fox during the illness of the Duke of Cumberland,
213;
dull speech in reply to Lord Egmont opposing the army estimates,
216;
proposes the land tax, and proposes a most extraordinary system of
national policy, 218;
his power confirmed by a cessation of opposition, 229;
parallel between him and Sir R. Walpole, 231, et seq.;
political influence at opening of 1752, 239;
supports the Saxon treaty, 243;
in 1753 replies to Lord Egmont in defence of the address, 294;
rebukes Alderman Beckford for opposition, 307;
parliamentary sparring with Fox on the Marriage Bill, 343, 344;
interesting conversation with Fox on the debates on the Marriage
Bill, and his difference with the Chancellor Hardwicke, 350;
opposes the repeal of the Plantation Act, 366;
his death and character, 370, et seq.

Pelham interest, accused of supporting Vandeput in Westminster, i. 14;
regency, 99;
their power in parliament and in the cabinet secured by the Regency
Bill, 161;
intrigues, 171, 184.

Pelham, Lady Catharine, interference in party politics, iii. 21.

Pensions, heavy ones brought on the nation by the capricious change
of ministry in 1755, ii. 143;
heavy charges entailed on the public by the coalition of Pitt, Fox,
and Newcastle, iii. 31.

Philipps, Sir John, his character, i. 114;
moves the King’s Bench for a Habeas Corpus for Murray, _ib._

Pitt, Right Hon. William, political inconsistency, i. 7;
parliamentary recantation, 8, 9;
renews his connexion with the Prince of Wales, 12;
differs with Pelham on the vote for seamen, 17;
his parliamentary oratory, 42;
parliamentary politics, 61;
offends the Whigs, _ib._;
Fox’s opinion of him, 62;
politics at the prince’s court, 76;
his friends suffer from the king’s displeasure, 85;
anecdotes biographical, 92, 93;
mortification at the royal silence and neglect, 110;
levels an attack at Fox upon Anstruther’s affair, 110;
change of politics upon the Regency Bill, 137, 141;
he and his party dissatisfied at the triumph of the Pelhams over the
Bedford interest, 240;
incites Lord Cobham to traverse the king’s politics in favour of the
Archduke Joseph of Austria, 241;
opposes the repeal of the Plantation Act, 366;
looked to as a candidate for the premiership, 379;
is persuaded to join the Newcastle administration, 387;
his disgust at the new arrangements leads to an explanation with
Fox, 392;
differences with the Duke of Newcastle, 407;
alarms the House with his spirited remarks on the charges of
bribery, 408;
attacks the Solicitor-General Murray as secretary at war, 413;
breach with Sir George (Lord) Lyttelton, 414, et seq.;
his conduct during a projected change of ministry, 418;
is disclaimed by Fox, 420;
makes one of his best speeches on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill,
ii. 7;
objected to by the Tories, who now first unite to form a distinct
political party in the state, on points unconnected with
jacobitism, 12;
separates from Fox, 37;
refuses to support the German treaties, 41;
his interference guarded against during the coalition of Fox and
Bedford, 47;
commences a tempestuous opposition in the House, 49;
most eloquent speech on that occasion, 55;
is dismissed from office, 62;
but accepts a pension, 63;
speech on the naval estimates, 67, 70;
florid speech in favour of the war in America, in preference to
German campaigns, 86;
supports the militia question, 98;
parliamentary quarrel with Hume Campbell, 107;
admirable and witty speech in reply on the committee report, 135;
character of, as a parliamentary orator, 148, 149;
contemptuous treatment of Lyttelton as chancellor, 153;
ridicules the affair of the Swiss battalions for American service,
162;
opposition to the Hessian troops, 187;
and to the Hanoverians, 188;
violent philippic against ministers in the debate upon vote of
credit, 193;
sarcastic attack of Lyttelton, 197;
anecdotes of his connexion with Lord Bute, 205;
proceedings on Fox’s resignation, political and courtly intrigues,
254, et seq.;
visits Lady Yarmouth, 259;
declines acting with Fox, 262;
gradual relaxation in his demands and politics, 264;
comes into power, 270;
arrangements for his friends, 274;
his conduct as first minister, 275;
his long speech for the opening of parliament sent back by the king
unread, to be shortened, 276;
affairs connected with Byng’s trial, 310, 312, 322;
first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand money for
Hanover, 313;
declares in favour of mercy to Admiral Byng in the House, 322, 329;
asks mercy of the king, but refused, 326;
exertions in the House on the royal message of reprieve, 333;
intrigues to dismiss him from power, 377;
events leading to a change of ministry, 378, 379;
chooses to be turned out in preference to resignation, iii. 1;
his power and popularity, 5;
tendency towards the Duke of Newcastle, 6;
extraordinary finesse in attending the House on the Minorca inquiry,
8;
further negotiations, 14, 15;
comes again into power with the Duke of Newcastle, 31;
commences a vigorous system of government, 42;
political honesty in the affair of Closter Seven, 60;
of Rochfort also, 74;
patronizes Wolfe, 75;
political influence in 1758, 84;
objects to German campaigns, 88;
supports the Habeas Corpus, 103;
his conduct of the war, 123;
opens the session of 1758, personal and ministerial conduct, 149;
character of his military administration, 160;
successes of 1759, 169, et seq.;
character and ministry, 173, 174;
offends the House by taxes and excise, 178;
speech in parliament, after the glorious successes of the war, 1759,
225;
loses Lord Temple, 228;
but who returns to office, _ib._;
declines offers of peace from France from a determination to humble
her, 236;
rupture with Lord Bute, 237;
writes a warm letter to the Duke of Bedford on the affairs of
Ireland, 245.

Plantation Act, its repeal proposed in the House of Commons, i. 364.

Planting in England, first encouraged by Archibald, Duke of Argyle,
i. 278.

Plate, wrought, taxed, ii. 176;
ignorance of leading members, 182.

Pococke, Admiral, successes in the East Indies, iii. 217.

Police, national, observations on, in commutation of capital
punishments, i. 256.

Policy, national, a most extraordinary system of, proposed by Pelham,
i. 218.

Pompadour, Madame, affair of Miss Murphy’s rivalship with, i. 334.

Ponsonby, Speaker, in Ireland, party politics during the Bedford
administration, iii. 68, et seq.

Pope, Alexander, anecdote of his duplicity towards Lord Bolingbroke,
i. 224.

Popedom, consequences of election to, upon general politics, iii. 131.

Porteous, Captain, affair of, at Edinburgh, curious facts relating to,
i. 43, 59.

Portugal, complaints about money smuggled by English ships of war,
i. 256.

Portugal, King of, assassinated, iii. 141, et seq.

Post-office, breach of confidence in opening letters, i. 202.

Potter, Thomas, parliamentary exertions on the Gin Bill, i. 70.

Potter, Mr., shameful conduct in falsifying votes as a teller in the
House, ii. 11.

Poulet, Earl of, his political character and conduct, ii. 18;
absurd motion by, 21.

Prague, battle of, and Prussian victory, iii. 13.

Pratt, Mr. (Lord Camden), becomes attorney-general at the express
desire of Mr. Pitt, iii. 32;
brings in a bill to explain and support the Habeas Corpus, 103.

Prerogative, royal, observations on, i. 403.

Press, public, first notice of reports in the House of Commons,
ii. 108.

Pretender, the, account of his family and court, i. 284, et seq.

Prevot’s regiment, long debates respecting, ii. 156, et seq.

Prince Edward, vide _Edward_.

Prince George (George III.), conduct on demise of his father, i. 78;
changes in his establishment, 80, 86, 94;
extraordinary suspicion of the Duke of Cumberland, 105, 106;
created Prince of Wales, 114;
new appointments in his household, 226;
divisions in his tutorship, and connected with affairs in Ireland,
289, et seq., 292;
affair of the pretended memorial, written by Horace Walpole, 298,
305;
marriage proposed with a princess of Brunswick, ii. 36;
opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47;
attains the age of majority, 204;
proposed separation from his mother, 207, 221, et seq.;
new household established, 258;
enters on political life by interfering in the formation of a
ministry, iii. 25;
animadversions on his education, 39;
influence of Lord Bute, 121;
secret politics of his court discovered, 237.

Prince of Wales, Frederick, vide _Wales_.

Princess of Wales, vide _Wales_.

Prize Bill, debates on, ii. 78.

Protestant ascendency, vide _Ascendency_.

Protester, a new anti-ministerial paper, its history and first
appearance, i. 345.

Prussia, Frederick, King of, account of his successes and reverses
in the campaign in Germany, of 1760, iii. 289-297.
See also _Frederick_.

Prussia, accommodation with that state, ii. 152;
new treaty, 197;
its politics previous to the German war, 219, 238, et seq.;
pacific politics of Frederick, 240;
his political and military character, 244;
successes of Frederick in Bohemia, iii. 12, et seq.;
new treaty with, 110.

Publications, licentious, prohibited by the police in 1758, iii. 98.

Pulteney, Lord, political character and connexions, ii. 78, 79;
speech on the treaties, 119.

Pulteney, William, see _Bath_.

Purity of elections, infringed by the people, i. 335.

Quackery, medical, anecdotes of, i. 174, 225.

Qualifications for the House of Commons, conscientious arrangement of
the Duke of Devonshire, ii. 86.

Qualification Bill, proceedings on, iii. 279.

Quakers exempted in the Marriage Bill, i. 340.

Quebec, expedition against, iii. 171, et seq.;
General Murray defeated at, 284;
the French driven thence, _ib._

Queries, constitutional, so called, an attack on the Duke of
Cumberland, i. 9, et seq.

Ralph, a dull political author, bought off by mistake, i. 345, 346.

Randan, Duc de, the French governor of Hanover, his praiseworthy
humanity, iii. 104.

Ranelagh masquerades, curious denouncement of, by drunken mobs,
iii. 98.

Ravensworth, Lord, his character as a warm and honest Whig, i. 303;
affair of the pretended memorial, _ib._, et seq.

Reduction of duties proved to be beneficial, ii. 177.

Regency, political views respecting, if during the minority of Prince
George, i. 98, 104, 146.

Reporters in Parliament, first taken notice of in the House of
Commons, ii. 108.

Republicanism, observations on, i. 376, 377.

Rewards to military and naval officers, iii. 237, 238.

Richelieu, Duc de, character of, and affair of Minorca, ii. 210, 225,
226;
writes to Voltaire in vindication of Admiral Byng, 311.

Richmond, second Duke of, his death, i. 3.

Richmond Park, remarkable law-suit respecting, i. 401, 402;
further contests with the Princess Amelia about the right of way,
ii. 220.

Rider, Sir Dudley, parliamentary character, i. 123, 124;
dies just as made a peer, ii. 202;
the patent withheld, and why, _ib._

Rigby, Mr., becomes an agent between Fox and the Duke of Bedford,
ii. 45;
further political intrigues in Ireland, 315;
political character and conduct in Ireland, iii. 66, 70, 73.

Robinhood Society, its meetings and rules, i. 42.

Robinson, Sir Thomas, appointed secretary at war, i. 388;
his character, _ib._;
resigns the seals to make way for Fox; his gratitude and paternal
feelings on receiving place and pension, ii. 44, 45;
absurd reply to Pitt, 93.

Rochefoucault, Cardinal, works on the superstition of Louis XV.,
ii. 176.

Rochester, election to supply Byng’s vacancy; singular circumstances
connected with it, ii. 372.

Rochfort, attack on, first proposed, iii. 44;
expedition to, 45, et seq.;
inquiry on, 74, 75.

Rockingham, Marquis of, his inefficient speech on the Scottish
Colonization Bill, i. 272;
on the prince’s tutors, 331.

Roman Catholics in Ireland, their state in 1752, and before, i. 278,
et seq.

Rosbach, battle of, Imperial and French armies defeated by the King
of Prussia, iii. 80.

Rouillé, Mons., the French Minister, sends an extraordinary memorial
respecting hostilities, ii. 150.

Royal marriages first controlled by legal enactment in the Regency
Bill, i. 146.

Royal speech, a spurious one published in Pitt’s first parliament,
and the author punished by the House of Lords, ii. 277.

Royal wills, anecdote of burning, i. 175; iii. 308, 313.

Royalty in England, its influence little felt in politics, i. 375,
376;
the author’s observations on, as contrasted with republicanism,
i. 376.

Russia, alliance with, and its consequences, ii. 151, 236.

Rutland, Duke of, returns to court after long retirement, ii. 2;
is appointed lord steward, but independent of party, _ib._

Sabbath-day, comparative rigidness of the Jews and Quakers, ii. 167;
police regulations on, iii. 98.

Sackville, Lord G., opposes the Duke of Cumberland’s Mutiny Bill,
i. 41;
his character and political influence in Ireland, 279;
declares himself for Pitt in the House of Commons; political
anecdotes and observations on the same, ii. 314, 315;
acquires great weight in government, iii. 107 (vide _Ireland_,
_passim_);
commands in Germany, 147;
battle of Minden, 190, et seq., 212, et seq.;
court-martial, and opinion on, after dismissal from the service,
252;
personal consequences of the imputation of cowardice, 256;
arrest and court-martial brought before the House of Commons as
matter of privilege, 265;
sentence, 273;
remarks, 274.

Salt tax proposed by Alderman Beckford, ii. 302.

Sandwich, Earl of, political rise to the Admiralty, through the
Bedford interest, i. 2;
sporting practices and diplomatic services, 3;
political manœuvre in regard to the German war, 99, et seq.;
political versatility and clinging to power, 161;
political hostility of the Pelham faction, 185;
interferes to save the Duke of Bedford from that party, 186;
his political character, 187;
is dismissed from office by the Pelham faction, 190;
differs in Parliament with the Duke of Bedford, on the Saxon treaty,
250;
ruins his credit for abilities by an unfortunate speech, 251;
election differences with the Duke of Newcastle, in Cornwall, 407;
ii. 10, 11.

Sandys, Lord, parliamentary juggling on the Marriage Bill, i. 347;
becomes Speaker to the House of Lords, ii. 274.

Saunders, Captain, compelled by the first lord of the Admiralty to
vote for the Marriage Bill, i. 345.

Saunders, Admiral, his character, political and naval, iii. 230, 231;
judicious exercise of discretion, _ib._

Saxony, a subsidiary treaty with, in favour of the Archduke Joseph,
i. 240;
comes before Parliament, 242, et seq.;
invaded by Prussia, and Dresden taken, ii. 241;
its sufferings from the German war, iii. 247;
character and anecdotes of the court of, ii. 396, _ad finem_.

Scarborough, extraordinary surrender of the liberty of election to
Pelham, as the minister, i. 355.

Schweidnitz, siege and capture by the King of Prussia, iii. 122.

Scotland, proposed colonization of the forfeited estates in, i. 256,
et seq.;
anecdotes of the rebellion, 262, 263;
policy of the Pelham ministry for the tranquillity of Scotland, 269;
political anecdotes of the Scottish Whigs, 271, 272;
influence and conduct of Archibald, Duke of Argyle, 273;
predominant influence of that duke under the Newcastle
administration, 390;
motion respecting the sheriffs-depute, ii. 4, 14;
piratical affair of Thurot’s squadron, iii. 262.

Seamen seized on board of Embden ships; proceedings on, and a bill
brought in, i. 261;
their marriages prevented by the Marriage Bill, 345;
bill for regulating their wages brought in by George Grenville,
but lost, iii. 19, 20.

Secker, Archbishop, disliked by George II., i. 65;
as Bishop of Oxford, extraordinary instance of sophistry in regard
to the Marriage Bill, 347;
becomes Archbishop of Canterbury, on the death of Hutton, iii. 107.

Secretaryship of State, a third office first suggested for the
colonies by Lord Halifax, i. 199, 220.

Secretaryship in Ireland, its lucrative influence, iii. 93.

Secret-service money, arrangement respecting, under the Newcastle
administration, i. 382;
its baneful influence, 383.

Selwyn, old John, anecdotes of, i. 94, 95.

Sharpe, Governor of Virginia, chosen as a general by the Duke of
Newcastle, i. 401.

Shebbear, Dr., affair of, iii. 152, et seq.

Sheridan, Mr., as manager, produces a theatrical riot by political
allusions, i. 389.

Sheriffs-depute of Scotland, motion respecting the tenure of their
offices, ii. 4, 14, et seq.

Sherlock, Bishop, political and ecclesiastical character of, i. 148.

Silesian loan, its stoppage, and further transactions thereon, i. 296,
et seq.

Sinking fund, proposed by Sir John Barnard, i. 218, 255.

Smith, Admiral, president of Byng’s court-martial, examination before
the House of Lords, ii. 360;
anecdote, 372.

Smollett, Dr., punished for a libel on Admiral Knollys in the Critical
Review, iii. 259;
anecdotes of him, 260, 261.

Smuggling of money in foreign ports, i. 256.

Somersetshire, troops raised in, for home service, forced to
Gibraltar, ii. 203.

Sophistry, extraordinary instance of, from the Bishop of Oxford,
i. 347.

South Sea Company receive indemnification from Spain at the peace of
1751, i. 6;
their concerns betrayed by the Duke of Newcastle, 7;
propose to lower their interest, but demur to giving up their
demand against Spain, 63.

Spain, close of the war in 1751, and indemnification to the South Sea
Company, i. 6;
political animadversions, _ib._;
political state previous to the war of 1756, 398;
ministerial assertions respecting her love of peace, 403;
promises not to engage in the war, ii. 33;
death of the king, contest for the crown, affairs of Naples,
iii. 204.

St. Cas, attack on, iii. 135.

St. Maloes, expedition to, iii. 124.

St. Simon, Marquis de, a Frenchman, offends the House of Commons by
taking notes in the gallery, i. 108.

Stage, act for licensing passed, i. 14.

Stair, Lord, courtly anecdote of, and Queen Caroline, i. 221.

Stanhope, Earl of, his republican principles, and steady party
conduct, i. 116.

Stanhope, Sir William, anecdote of, i. 75, _Note_.

Statesmen, their faults more productive of events than their good
intentions, i. 374.

Style, new, proposed in the peers by Lord Chesterfield, i. 51.

Stocks fall on Pitt’s resignation in 1757, iii. 5.

Stone, Dr. George, primate of Ireland, his character and political
influence, i. 279;
eager participation in Irish politics, ii. 19, et seq.;
vide _Ireland_ _passim_.

Stone, Mr., engaged in the education of Prince George, i. 283;
dissensions in that establishment, 289, et seq.;
his influence in the ministerial changes leading to the fall of the
Duke of Newcastle, ii. 43, 45;
vide further under the head of _Princess of Wales_.

Strange, Lord, parliamentary character, and motion on General
Anstruther’s affair, i. 108, 113;
speech on the second reading of the Regency Bill, 125, 139, 143.

Stuart, House of, the author’s observations on the three anniversary
holidays in honour of it, ii. 3;
decline of their cause, 12, 23.

Subsidy, vide _Bavaria_, _Prussia_, _Germany_, _Saxony_.

Suffolk, Henrietta Howard, Countess of, anecdotes of, i. 52;
character and political anecdote of, 176, 445, 446.

Sunderland, Lord, betrayed by the Duke of Newcastle, i. 164.

Suppression of vice, parliamentary committee for, appointed, i. 44.

Sweetmeats, a love of, considered as a qualification for a throne,
iii. 206.

Sweden, want of patriotism and disregard of liberty, i. 229;
revolution in, ii. 231.

Swiss regiments, for American service, debates on, ii. 156, 167,
et seq.

Sydenham, Mr., extraordinary speech in favour of Murray the jacobite,
i. 211.

Talbot, Lord, political character, and speech on committal of the
Regency Bill, i. 120, 121;
speech on the charges against the prince’s tutors, 324.

Tea tax proposed by Alderman Beckford, ii. 302.

Temple, Lord, opposes the repeal of the Jew Naturalization Bill,
i. 360, et seq.;
solicits mercy of the king for Admiral Byng, at the request of
seven members of the court-martial, but is refused, ii. 326;
his tiresomeness in council, 378;
comes in with Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, as lord privy seal,
iii. 31;
parliamentary squabble with Lord Lyttelton, 119;
resigns the privy seal on being refused the garter, 228;
but returns, _ib._

Tessin, Count, the Swedish minister, his despotic policy, in imitation
of the Pelhams, i. 229.

Test, a weekly paper begun by Charles Townshend; only one number
published, ii. 218.

Thomas, Dr., Bishop of Peterborough, appointed preceptor to the
Prince of Wales, i. 292.

Thurot, Mons., invades Ireland with a small squadron, but is defeated,
and falls, iii. 224, 262, et seq.

Ticonderoga taken, iii. 211.

Times and manners, view of, in 1757, ii. 278; iii. 297, et seq.

Tories, first noticed as a political body distinct from jacobitism,
ii. 12;
acquire importance in the House by uniting to bold a balance
between Fox and Newcastle, _ib._;
further manœuvres in opposition to Fox, 13, et seq.;
opinions on the calling in of foreign troops, 184, 185;
their feeling towards Pitt on his becoming first minister, 276, 305;
Tory aldermen attempt to promote a petition in favour of Byng, but
fail, 368;
join with Pitt’s friends to form an opposition, iii. 3;
election of a chancellor at Oxford, 166;
weaned from their opposition to Pitt by militia commissions, 185.

Torrington, Lord, exerts himself in the cause of his uncle Byng,
ii. 309.

Townshend, Charles, opposes the Marriage Bill, i. 340;
attacks Lord Egmont on his absurd conduct respecting the Mutiny
Bill, 421;
his long speech on the German treaties, in opposition to Newcastle,
ii. 121;
parliamentary squabble with Fox on the question of foreign troops
in America, 173;
extraordinary conduct and political shuffling on Byng’s affair, 349;
witticism on Fox’s sinecure grant of the pells in Ireland, iii. 4.

Townshend, Colonel George (afterwards brigadier-general), character
of, i. 39;
attack on General Anstruther, 56;
complains to the House against Mr. Fox’s circulars, ii. 64;
procures the repeal of all the old militia acts preparatory to a
new one, 152;
next in command to Wolfe at Quebec, iii. 171;
succeeds Wolfe in the command in Canada, but treats his memory
unhandsomely, 222.

Townshend, Lord, political anecdotes of, i. 163, 164.

Townshend, Lady, political anecdotes of, i. 39.

Transportation, commutation to hard labour in the dock-yards, proposed
as a substitute for, i. 255.

Trentham, Lord, gives offence to his Westminster constituents, i. 13;
judicious conduct, 14, 15.

Troops raised by peers to guard against invasion, ii. 202, 203.

Truth necessary for history, and why, i. 237, et seq.

Turner, Sir Edward, his extraordinary disavowal of Mr. Fox, ii. 67.

Tyrawley, Lord, sent to Portugal to settle complaints about smuggling
money, i. 256;
parliamentary affair with Lord George Sackville, iii. 109.

Tyrrel, Sir John, shameful conduct of, on the Westminster petition,
i. 26.

Upton, Mr. (Lord Templetown), party affairs in Ireland, iii. 69, 70.

Vandeput, Sir George, first brought forward in Westminster, by Lord
Egmont, i. 14.

Vane, Henry (afterwards Earl of Darlington), his political character,
drunk or sober, i. 117.

Vaudreuil, Mons. de, his perfidious conduct in Canada, iii. 223.

Vernon, Admiral, outrageous speech on Murray’s affair, and the
Westminster petition, i. 30, 31;
anecdotes of, parliamentary and naval, i. 100, 101;
biographical notice of, 101, 102.

Viceroyship of Ireland, its lucrative advantages, iii. 93.

Voltaire, character of, as an historian, i. 375;
sends to England a letter from the Duc de Richelieu exculpating
Byng, ii. 311.

Waldegrave, Earl of, appointed warden of the stannaries, i. 91;
appointed governor to the Prince of Wales, 291;
character and anecdotes, _ib._;
speech, 328;
entrusted with negotiations for a projected change of ministry, 418;
attempts to form a ministry, iii. 26;
but is forced to abandon it, 30.

Waldegrave, General, by a well-timed manœuvre, gains the battle of
Minden, iii. 198.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, renewed intercourse with the Pitt party,
i. 12;
conduct of his party on the Westminster petition, 28;
party politics, 39, 47;
death, and its political consequences, 72, 86;
his character, _ib._, et seq.;
his debts, 87;
songs by, 432, 433, 434.

Wales, Princess of, character and anecdotes, i. 76;
behaviour on death of the Prince, 77;
education of her children, 79;
kindness of the king, 83;
changes in her household, 92;
the regency affair, 99, et seq., 139, 146, et seq.;
the Princess Matilda, a posthumous child, born, 201;
differences in the tutorship of the Prince of Wales, 284;
appears in public with the same honours as the late queen, 289;
interference in the politics of the day, 418;
her projects for governing her son, ii. 36;
conduct in regard to his proposed marriage, _ib._;
interference in politics, 39;
opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47;
her conduct on the prince attaining majority, 204, 205;
anecdotes of Lord Bute, 205;
proposed plan of removing the prince, 221;
Leicester-house politics and change of ministry, 249, et seq.;
total rejection of Fox’s overtures, in 1757, at Leicester-house,
iii. 6;
further manœuvres, 25, 30, 121.

Wall, General, political anecdote of, i. 398.

Walpole, Horace, moves the address in the Commons in 1751, i. 8;
his sarcasms against the Devonshires accounted for, 196;
praiseworthy candour, 233, 234, et seq.;
the pretended memorial on the education of the Prince of Wales, 298;
his part in the breach between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414;
and of a union between Pitt and Fox, 415;
speech on the Swiss regiments, ii. 163;
applied to by Fox on his rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, but
declines interference, 254, 255;
urges Keppel to apply to be absolved from his oath, 327;
extraordinary fact relative to Byng’s affair, 370;
advice to Fox, to save him from the precipice of political ruin,
iii. 28;
observations on, and apologies for, his work, 158;
draws his own character, 159.

Walpole, old Horace, political character, with anecdotes, i. 140,
et seq.;
his remarkable speech on the Saxon treaty, 242;
speech and vote different, 254.

Walpole, Lord, his replies to Lord Bolingbroke’s letters and
principles, i. 222.

Walpole, Sir Robert, inconsistency of his political opponents at
close of the Spanish war, i. 7;
witticism on Sir W. Yonge, 23;
financial expertness, 32;
politic advice to the Duke of Cumberland, 105;
his reasons for supporting the Duke of Newcastle, 163;
contrasted with Bolingbroke, 225;
parallel between him and Pelham, 229, et seq.

War of 1756, as so called, first announced to the House of Commons by
order of the King, ii. 18.

Warburton, Dr., promoted to the see of Gloucester, iii. 239.

Washington, General, his first action, whilst a major in British
service, in the war of 1756, i. 399;
his curious despatch, and the king’s remark, 400.

Watson, Admiral, retakes Calcutta, iii. 57;
his successes and death, 89, 90.

Ways and Means, vide _Commons_.

Weobly, election of Lord Perceval, i. 37.

West, Admiral, his conduct in Byng’s affair, ii. 295, 296, 306.

West Indian Colonies, attempt of Lord Halifax to bring them under the
control of the Board of Trade, i. 199;
further ministerial negotiations, 220;
naval and military operations in 1759, iii. 169, 170.

Westminster petition to the Commons against Lord Trentham, i. 13, 19;
spurious patriotism and jacobitism united, and why, 33, 34;
attempted opposition to the court, in favour of Sir George Vandeput,
fails, 293.

Westmorland, Earl of, his political character, and election to the
chancellorship of Oxford, iii. 167.