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.
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.