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.