privy seal, 251.
Ryder, Dudley, afterwards Lord Harrowby, 404.
Sackville, Lord George, 15, 22, 83, 87;
takes name Germain, 159;
secretary of state, 159, 166, 173, 176, 179, 180, 184, 185, 191, 202, 210, 225-227;
created Viscount Sackville, 228.
St. Eustatius, island of, 216;
retaken by French, 227.
St. George's Fields. See London.
St. Kitts, island of, captured by French, 227;
ceded to Great Britain, 243.
St. Lucia, island of, 24;
conquest of, 37, 40, 195, 218;
restored to France, 242;
St. Marcouf, islands of, 402.
St. Philips. See Minorca.
St. Pierre, island of, 27, 40;
ceded to France, 243;
taken by English, 356.
St. Valentine's Day, battle of. See Cape St. Vincent, battle of.
St. Vincent, Earl of. See Jervis, Sir John.
St. Vincent, island of, conquest of, 37, 40;
captured by French, 195, 197, 198;
ceded to Great Britain, 243;
insurrection in, 377.
Salem, seat of government transferred from Boston to, 128, 140.
San Domingo, island of, 200, 234;
Sandwich, Earl of (Montagu), secretary of state, 49, 50, 65, 100, 115;
first lord of the admiralty, 131, 161, 191-193, 212.
Sandy Hook (N.Y.), 174, 193, 224.
Santa Cruz, attack on, 395.
Saratoga, convention of, 178, 179.
Sardinia, King of. See Charles Emmanuel.
Saumarez, Captain, 388.
Saumur, 351.
Saunders, Sir Charles, first lord of the admiralty, 74, 75, 98.
Savannah, capture of, 195, 198.
Savary, French captain, 413, 415.
Savile, Sir George, 203, 205, 206.
Savoy, annexed by the French, 337.
Scheldt, opening of the, 297, 342-344.
Schuyler, Philip, American general, 176, 177, 180.
Schweidnitz, capture of, 14.
Scott, John (afterwards Earl of Eldon), solicitor-general, 206, 371;
chief justice of common pleas, 434;
created baron, 434.
Scott, John (afterwards Scott-Waring), major, 303.
Secker, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, 60.
Secretaries of state, division of departments of, 10, 87, 229, 336.
Seditious meetings bill, 379, 380.
Selim III. (Turkish sultan), 418.
seized by the French, 197;
ceded to France, 243.
Seringapatam, siege of, 305;
taken, 420.
Seymour, Lord Hugh, admiral, 431.
Sháh Alam, Mughal emperor, 78.
Sharp, Granville, philanthropist, 295.
Sheares, Henry, 408.
Sheares, John, 408.
Shelburne, Earl of (Fitzmaurice), afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, 49, 52;
secretary of state, 73, 80, 82;
resigns, 89, 128, 160, 188, 203, 204, 213, 228;
home secretary, 229, 230, 231, 238, 239;
first lord of the treasury, 240-245, 251, 287, 293, 336, 341, 359.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 246, 258, 286, 291, 294, 304, 308-311, 318, 335, 336, 359, 406, 447.
Shore, Sir John (afterwards Lord Teignmouth), 419.
Siddons, Mrs., 258.
Sinking fund, 291-293, 332, 347.
Sistova, peace of, 326.
Skenesborough (U.S.A.), 177.
Slave trade, 295, 296, 323, 324, 404.
Smith, Adam, his Wealth of Nations, 137, 261, 269, 276, 277.
Smith, Colonel, 140.
Smith, Sir Sidney, 355, 402, 418, 419, 431, 432.
hovering act against, 285.
Social progress. See England.
Societies, revolutionary, 335, 338, 358.
Somers, Lord, 352.
Spain, King of. See Charles III.
Spain, grievances of, against Great Britain, 24;
Great Britain declares war against, 33;
navy of, 112;
dispute with Great Britain concerning the Falkland islands, 113, 114;
alliance of, with America, 181-183;
alliance with France against Great Britain, 196;
declares war against Great Britain, 196-200, 203, 208;
peace between Great Britain and, 242-243;
convention of 1786 with, 318;
discontent in Spanish America with, 319, 320;
treaty with Great Britain, 321;
joins the first coalition, 349;
abandons coalition, 363;
alliance of, with France, 381.
Spanish America. See Spain.
Speenhamland, 278.
Spencer, Earl, 340;
privy seal, 366;
first lord of the admiralty, 366, 393, 452.
Speyer, surrender of, 337.
Spitalfields riots. See London.
Spithead, 209;
Stafford, Marquis of. See Gower, Earl.
Stanley, Hans, diplomatist, 24-29, 32.
Staten island, 164.
Stephen, James, 324.
Sterne, Laurence, 260.
Steuben, Baron, 182.
Steyer, armistice signed at, 439.
Stirling, Lord (so-called), William Alexander, American general, 165.
Stockdale, John, publisher, 324.
Stormont, Lord (afterwards Earl of Mansfield), 115, 183;
president of the council, 245, 369.
Strange, Lord, 71.
Stuart, James, general, 238.
Stuart, Sir Charles, general, 363.
Suchet, French general, 436.
Sudbury, the borough of, 19.
Suffolk, Earl of (Howard), privy seal, later secretary of state, 115;
death of, 203.
Suffren, Bailli de, French admiral, 238.
Sullivan, John, American general, 155, 165, 194.
Sumter, American partisan leader, 219-221, 223.
Surinam, surrender of, 431.
Suvorov (Suwarrow), Russian general, 327, 425, 426.
Sweden, King of. See Gustavus III.
Sweden, proposed defensive alliance with, 75;
revolution in, 115;
joins the league of armed neutrality, 208;
invaded by Denmark, 325;
makes a treaty with Russia, 326;
joins the maritime confederacy, 442.
Sydney, Lord. See Townshend, Thomas.
Syria, Bonaparte's campaign in, 418.
Talbot, Earl (Talbot), lord steward, 97.
Talleyrand, French statesman, 333, 334, 336, 337, 433, 437.
Tandy, Napper, 414.
Tarleton, Sir Banastre, colonel, 220, 221.
Taxation, right of colonial, 62-63, 69.
Tea-duty, 90, 109, 110, 129, 162;
Chatham urges repeal of, 188, 284.
Tchernitchev, Russian general, 33, 35, 36.
Temple, Earl, first (Richard Grenville-Temple), 20, 28, 30, 39, 43, 44, 46, 49, 50, 66, 67, 73, 74, 99, 100.
Temple, Earl, second (George Grenville), afterwards Marquis of Buckingham, lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 240;
created Marquis of Buckingham, 287, 315, 367.
Thelwall, John, lecturer, 359.
Thompson, printer, 117.
Three Rivers (Canada), 156.
Thugut, Baron, Austrian minister, 351, 360, 421-423, 425, 431, 436.
Thurlow, Edward, Lord (Baron), solicitor-general, 103, 115, 116, 118;
lord chancellor, 191, 203, 228, 231, 245, 250-251;
the great seal stolen, 254, 286, 302, 306, 309, 310, 312, 323, 324;
dismissed, 332.
Ticonderoga, 144, 146, 151, 166, 168, 170, 173;
Tierney, George, 399;
Tipú, Sultán, 237;
succeeds Haidar Alí, 238, 305, 397, 418-420.
Tobago, 24, 40, 218, 243, 333, 334;
taken by English, 356.
Tolerance, religious, subscription to thirty-nine articles, 118, 119, 205, 323;
bill for relief of dissenters, 295.
death of, 415.
Tooke, Horne (previously Horne), 104, 127, 145, 322, 358.
Torgau, battle of, 14.
Toulon, surrenders to Hood, 352;
evacuation of, 355, 356, 375, 381, 415, 418, 427, 428.
Tourcoing, battle of, 361.
Tournai, 361.
Townshend, Charles, 20;
paymaster of forces, 67;
chancellor of the exchequer, 74, 80, 82, 83;
death of, 86.
Townshend, Marquis, 274;
viceroy of Ireland, 94.
Townshend (Thomas), afterwards Lord Sydney, home secretary, 240, 251, 267;
resigns, 315.
Traitorous correspondence bill, 357.
Transportation of criminals, 267.
Travancore, rájá of, 305.
Treasonable practices bill, 379, 380.
Trebbia, battle of the, 425.
Trecothick, lord mayor, 113.
Trincomali, 237.
Trinidad, captured by the English, 389.
Triple alliance of 1786, 301, 320, 324-326;
Troubridge, Sir Thomas, admiral, 388, 389, 427.
Tryon, William, governor of New York, 124, 130.
Tucker, Joseph (Dean of Gloucester), 137.
Turks, wars between Russia and, 114;
Austria declares war against, 325;
capture of Ochakov, 325;
treaty with Prussia, 326;
peace with Austria, 326;
war continued with Russia, 327;
war with France, 418-419, 421, 427, 432.
Turner, Joseph, 262.
Tuscany, Grand Duke of, 363, 380.
Ulm, capitulation of, 436.
Ulster, conspiracy in, 405.
Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 450.
United Irishmen, 367, 368, 385, 386, 398, 405, 406, 409, 414.
United Provinces, 297, 299-301, 324-325;
threatened by French, 336-340, 343;
invaded, 349;
subject to France, 363;
form Batavian republic, 440.
See also Holland.
United States, commercial treaty between England and the, 378.
Ushant, naval fight off, 193.
the Tsar's designs on, thwarted, 441.
Valley Forge, 175.
Valmy, battle of, 337.
Vansittart, Henry, his government of Bengal, 77.
Vellinghausen, battle of, 14.
Verdun, 337.