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.