CHAPTER XI.

General Murray beaten at Quebec--Retreat of the French from that

city--General Amherst takes Montreal--Our successes in the East

Indies--Campaign in Germany--Prussians defeated--King of Prussia

invests Dresden--Is obliged to retreat--Defeats Laudohn--Daun

compelled to raise the Siege of Schweidnitz--The Allies take

Berlin--Subsequently abandon it--The King of Prussia defeats

Daun at Torgal--Prince Ferdinand’s Campaign--Earl of Clanricarde

challenges the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland--Character of George

II.--His death--His Will--Anecdote respecting the Will of George

I.

Those prodigious efforts were crowned, though not with universal,

yet with most important success. In Germany, the campaign was far

from decisive; but in America the war was concluded. After the loss

of Quebec, the French retired into the heart of Canada. General

Murray,[110] a brave and adventurous officer, with a garrison of

about seven thousand men, and with the terror our arms had inspired,

was left to defend the ruins of Quebec. The frost had obliged

the Fleet to retire. Monsieur Levi, who had succeeded Montcalm,

seized that last opportunity of struggling to recover their empire.

Assembling a body of French, Canadians, and Indians, to the amount

of ten thousand and upwards, he marched in April to besiege the

capital. General Murray, impatient to be cooped within walls into

which the English had entered so impetuously, disdained to await a

regular siege, and, with far more intrepidity than policy, marched

out with inferior force, attacked the French, and was defeated. He

lost his cannon, but was sufficiently fortunate in not being cut

off, as he was near being, from his retreat to the City. Levi soon

prepared to form the siege by land and sea, having brought up six

frigates; against which we had not a single vessel. The place must

have fallen into the hands of its old masters, if, on the 9th of May,

Lord Colville, with two frigates, outsailing the British squadron,

had not entered the river and demolished the French armament. Levi,

from the heights on the other side, was witness to that defeat; and,

judging rightly that the rest of our naval force approached, broke up

his camp in haste and confusion, and retreated, leaving his Artillery

behind him.

One resource still remained--Montreal. There Monsieur de Vaudreuil,

the General Governor, fixed his stand, and collected the whole

force of the province. But he had to deal with a man, who, as

brave as Wolfe or as Murray, and as circumspect as Vaudreuil was

insidious, possessed the whole system of war. Provident, methodic,

conciliating, and cool, Amherst disposed his plans, adapted his

measures, reconciled jarring interests, and pursued his operations

with steadiness; neither precipitating nor delaying beyond the due

point, and comprehending the whole under an authority which he knew

how to assume, and to temper from giving disgust.[111] A character

so composed could not shine on a sudden: it required penetration to

admire him; but the finer the details, the more astonishing was the

result.

Amherst had determined, by one collective arrangement, to overwhelm

the last hopes of France in Canada; an object sufficiently important

to justify the exertion of superabundant resources. Colonel Haviland

was ordered to sail from Crown Point, and proceed directly to

Montreal: General Murray was commanded to bring up all the force

he could spare from Quebec. Amherst himself, with a body of ten

thousand men, and reinforced by a thousand savages under Sir William

Johnson, embarked on Lake Ontario for the river St. Laurence; a

spectacle that recalled the expeditions of ancient story, when the

rudeness and novelty of naval armaments raised the first adventurers

to the rank of demigods. That vast lake was to be traversed in open

galleys laden with artillery, not with arrows and javelins. Wolfe,

with all the formidable apparatus of modern war, had almost failed

before Quebec: Amherst with barks and boats invaded Montreal, and

achieved the conquest, though, what would have daunted the heroes of

antiquity, he had the cataracts to pass. He surmounted that danger

with inconsiderable loss, and appeared before Montreal on the very

same day with General Murray. Too many obstacles, to which Monsieur

de Vaudreuil had trusted, were conquered. The place itself was

little tenable. The Governor took the only part that remained, that

of surrendering his garrison prisoners of war. Thus was the French

empire in Canada annihilated without effusion of blood. Amherst’s

glory was completed by pardoning Vaudreuil’s perfidy and cruelties,

and by preserving the vanquished from insult and injury.

The power of France drew as near to a period in the East Indies.

Colonel Coote, Major Brereton, who fell in the contest, Major Monson,

and others, carried on the war triumphantly. Lally, who left no

valour unexerted, no stratagem unattempted, was constantly defeated.

Sir George Pococke entirely dispersed their Navy in those seas after

three repeated engagements.

The German war was far from drawing to a conclusion. It was next to

a miracle, considering how gloomily the last campaign had terminated

for the King of Prussia, that the present did not complete his ruin.

The Empress Queen’s hatred and resources were by no means exhausted.

She contrived, too, to keep up to the same mark the implacability

of the Czarina, who, having less both to hope and to fear, may well

be believed to have been actuated by bribes and pensions to her

Ministers. Immersed in pleasure and cool to ambition, gentle, too,

to her subjects, it is not credible that the Armies she poured on

the King of Prussia’s dominions were dispatched by feelings of her

own. The danger was not the less pressing to the King. The Russians

again threatened him; advanced again. The desultory Swedes still

hovered over him. The Austrian force was complete and numerous; and,

if Daun was too cautious, Laudohn promised to repair by activity the

Marshal’s circumspection.

The Court of Vienna seemed to applaud Laudohn’s vigour, whether

to animate Daun by giving him a rival, or really wishing for an

opportunity to fling the command into hands more alert. The Marshal,

who preferred the interests of his mistress to his own glory, was not

to be provoked out of his prudence. Inferior forces, he seemed to

think, might be justified in rashness: superior strength, that could

command time, could also ensure success; and, as his conduct had

already brought the King of Prussia to the verge of ruin, he saw no

cause to precipitate measures which had and did tend so naturally to

complete the work. The King, whom experience had successively taught

to be brave, to be desperate, to be circumspect, was not impatient

to advance his fate. His whole conduct in this campaign evidenced

that he looked on his situation as little less than hopeless; firm,

however, to find an issue, if art or industry could furnish one.

He entrenched himself strongly between the Elbe and the Multa,

covering Saxony. Prince Henry defended Silesia; General Fouquet,

preserving a communication with the latter, was posted near Glatz.

Daun watched the King in a camp no less strong; while Laudohn, with

a light army, shifted his quarters, and by turns threatened Silesia

and Berlin--sometimes hovered over the strong places in Silesia, at

others made a feint of attacking Prince Henry. The storm, however, at

length seemed levelled against Schweidnitz. General Fouquet was the

dupe of that _mouvement_; and, marching to cover the town, was drawn

into an engagement by Laudohn near Landshut, in which the Prussians

were not only totally defeated, but Fouquet himself, with two other

Generals, four Colonels, two hundred and thirteen officers, and seven

thousand men, were obliged to lay down their arms and surrender

themselves prisoners.

Laudohn, eager to improve his victory, besieged Glatz and took it.

He was of a nature not to stop in the career of success. The King

trembled for Silesia; while, at the same time, he was kept in check

by Daun’s superior force. He had no longer leisure to temporize. By

a secret and rapid march he crossed the Elbe before the Marshal had

notice of his departure. But Daun, however wary, was not dilatory. He

followed the King with an expedition which, being assisted by having

a shorter cut to make, soon gave him the start of his Majesty. This

was the point at which the King had pushed. When he found that the

Marshal was advanced before him by a march of two days, the King

turned suddenly back, and, while he was supposed on the borders of

Silesia, appeared before the walls of Dresden. He commenced the siege

with ardour; for it would admit of no delay. The glory of outwitting

Daun was all the fruit reaped by this stratagem; and, unless the King

flattered himself with a prospect of carrying Dresden by surprise or

storm, his manœuvre was, in his circumstances, a puerile stratagem,

a game of generalship not adequate to the crisis of his fortune. It

seemed one of those vainglorious littlenesses which too often entered

into his composition. The same mistaken appetite of applause tempted

him in this very campaign to publish his poems; a superficial medley,

ungrateful to the Deity that had given him such talents, and who

had not given him a genius for poetry. Achilles was a subject for

Pindar’s lyre, but could not strike it like Pindar.

Daun soon compensated for his error, and reached Dresden in six days

after the siege was formed. He flung sixteen battalions into the

town; and in three days more the King abandoned the siege. He had

astonished Europe--and he was satisfied. His brother’s glory was more

solid. Laudohn had invested Breslau, and expected to be joined by

seventy thousand Russians. The town in the meantime was battered with

incredible fury. The Russians did not appear--but Prince Henry did.

He had marched from Glogau with surprising expedition, and arrived in

time to save the place. Laudohn thought fit to decamp without risking

a battle; but he blocked up Neisse and Schweidnitz; and the Russians

at last advanced. Three bodies of Austrians also joined, commanded

by Daun, Laudohn, and Lacy. The King by large strides hastened to

the defence of Silesia, and encamped at Lignitz. His own superiority

of force, and the approach of the Russians, appeared to Marshal Daun

the favourable moment for determining the contest. He disposed his

plan for attacking the King in different quarters with all the three

Armies; and, to leave as little as possible to chance, he meant to

surprise him in the night. Measures so wisely taken were frustrated

by the vivacity of the King. He had learned the approach of a body of

Russians, and saw himself in a net. In vain had he already attempted

to divide the Austrian Armies; but what his stratagems could not

effect, their own disposition offered to him. Meaning to surround

him, they necessarily were to act in detached bodies. He seized the

lucky hour with vigour and sagacity; and, on the evening before

the destined general attack, he silently quitted his position, and

seized a post through which Laudohn was to pass. Daun had begun to

move, when, to his inexpressible surprise, he found no enemy to

encounter. The astonishment of Laudohn was not less, when, at three

in the morning, he found himself opposed to the whole force of the

King of Prussia. He was fallen into the snare, and it was too late

to retreat. For three hours he sustained the redoubled onsets of the

Prussian; but the King, who fought to avoid a battle, as well as to

gain one, exerted such desperate heroism, that at length he totally

routed the Austrians. They fled, leaving the Monarch in possession of

every mark of victory, but expecting each moment to have it ravished

from him.

Here, if ever, Marshal Daun seems to have hesitated unwisely. The

Prussians were flushed with success; but such a victory was not

gained without fatigue. Daun suspended his blow, and never recovered

the opportunity: he lost it by waiting to ensure it. Never trusting

to chance, while additional strength was in view, he detached a

strong corps to meet the Russians and press them to advance. Great

as the reinforcement was, it did not counterbalance the panic with

which they were struck by Laudohn’s defeat. They repassed the Oder

with precipitation, and left the King at liberty to join Prince

Henry. Marshal Daun, who was more lessened by his competitor’s defeat

than he could have been by any triumph of Laudohn, descended from

the lofty hopes he had so reasonably entertained, and blockaded

Schweidnitz. But the honour of forming a single siege was soon

ravished from him by Frederick, who, having surprised and vanquished

a corps under General Beck, obliged the Marshal to raise the blockade

and retreat precipitately to the mountains.

Still dangers crowded on the King as fast as he dispersed them. While

he was defending Silesia, the Russians, seeing Brandenburg open,

turned their invasion towards that province. Count Czernichew led

on a considerable body; Daun sent them 15,000 Austrians, and the

Imperial Army in Saxony was ordered to meet them at the gates of

Berlin. Count Halsen had upheld the sinking fortune of the King in

Saxony: he was now commanded to make an effort for saving Berlin;

but when he had assembled all possible force, it amounted but to

15,000 men. With such scanty means, he could only be witness to the

reduction of the capital, which immediately capitulated. The Allied

Army laid the town under heavy contribution; but the Russians, who

had not distinguished themselves in that war by lenity, blushed to

see themselves surpassed by the excesses of the Austrians; so much

did animosity surpass barbarism. Even the Swedes had hoped to come in

for share of the plunder of Berlin, and were stretching thither.

The King, whose fortune sunk wherever he was not in person to

sustain it, marched to relieve his capital. The plunderers did not

await him, but, after wasting the country, retired; the Imperialists,

to profit of the King’s absence, and to seize Saxony, which lay at

their mercy; the Russians, to form the siege of Colberg, which,

however, they abandoned, and retreated. Laudohn had no better success

before Cosel: and before the end of the campaign, the Swedes, too,

were driven back by the alertness of General Werner.

Still Marshal Daun’s Army remained entire, and superior to the

King’s. He had followed and watched every motion of that Prince, and

both passed the Elbe on the same day. The two Armies encamped near

Torgau; the Marshal with every advantage of position. The King’s

situation was tremendous. The enemy was not to be forced from a post

so judiciously chosen. Winter advanced; and Frederic had nothing

but a ruined country to receive him, if defeated. The King saw the

gulph that surrounded him. He saw the fruitlessness of disguising

their danger to his Army. He determined to fight, and told his troops

that he was resolved to conquer or die. Under the awfulness of

despair, they attacked the enemy. The onset and the reception became

the renown of such Armies and such Commanders. Fury animated the

Prussians; intrepidity sustained the Austrians. The King’s valour

was correspondent to his declaration. The Marshal showed that his

fire had been restrained by wisdom alone--not by want of heroism.

The event was long in suspense, and fluctuated alternately, each

side being often repulsed, and returning to the charge with fresh

alacrity. The Prussians at last threw the enemy into disorder; and

the Marshal himself receiving a dangerous wound in the thigh, and

being borne from the field, Count O’Donnel, who succeeded to the

command, found it vain to dispute the field any longer. It was nine

at night in the month of November; the battle had lasted from two in

the afternoon. A retreat was sounded, and made in good order by the

Austrians.

Dearly did the Prussians buy their victory; but in such a crisis

what was too dear a price for Frederic to pay? His loss was computed

at 13,000 men. The Austrians had not suffered less; in prisoners

abundantly. Four Generals, 216 officers, and 8000 private men

taken, with possession of the field, were decisive in favour of the

Prussians. The recovery of all Saxony, but Dresden, made the victory

indisputable.

Prince Ferdinand’s campaign was not alike resplendent in action or

variety. His army had been reinforced, but was still inferior to

the French commanded by Marshal Broglio. A separate corps was under

the orders of Count St. Germain, an officer of reputation, but

between whom and Broglio an enmity subsisted, which made it thought

unadvisable to let them act together. That they should even act in

concert was little to be expected--nor did they. Prince Ferdinand

reaped security from their dissensions rather than laurels. Their

animosities ran so high, that Broglio ordering St. Germain to join

his force with the Grand Army, contrary to the compact which the

latter had made of commanding a distinct body, St. Germain, who was

also an older officer, threw up his commission, and quitted the

service of his country.

The Hereditary Prince, ever alert, had attacked a post, been beaten,

and been wounded. He soon compensated for that disgrace by surprising

another detachment, in which he made the General who commanded

it, and 3000 men, prisoners. That success was followed by a more

considerable action at Warbourg, in which the French were again

worsted by Prince Ferdinand and his heroic nephew: yet so little

advantage was reaped by that achievement, that the French soon

overran Hesse, seized Göttingen and Munden, and were at the eve of

possessing Hanover.

The Hereditary Prince continued his eccentric enterprises with

advantage. His ardour was well seconded by the bravery of the English

troops: yet those flying rencounters rather kept off than forwarded

any decisive blow. Prince Ferdinand made other detachments with like

prosperity; and gained at least the glory of diverting Broglio, with

very superior force, from accomplishing any point of importance. A

more unaccountable expedition, on which Prince Ferdinand suddenly

dispatched his nephew, at the head of a considerable force, towards

the frontiers of Holland, occasioned much solicitude in England,

as the main Army, already unequal to that of France, was thus

rendered much weaker. King George felt it with anxiety; and though

not productive of the disasters apprehended, it was far, whatever

were the object of its destination, from turning to account.

Cleves, indeed, fell into our hands, and the siege of Wesel was

undertaken; but the French not thinking fit to leave the Hereditary

Prince undisturbed in his progress, sent Monsieur de Castries, with

a powerful detachment, to interrupt the siege. The Prince, whose

characteristic was quickness, did not wait to be compelled to raise

the siege. He attempted to surprise the enemy, but was repulsed with

loss, and received another wound.

In that action fell Lord Downe,[112] a gallant young man, adorned

with every amiable quality. Intrepid, generous, and good-natured, he

had abandoned the enjoyment of an ample fortune for the pursuit of

arms, to which he had an ungovernable impulse. He had parts to have

distinguished him in a safer scene; and a peculiarity of humour that

ornamented even his virtues. He received three wounds, and languished

some weeks in torment, which he supported with indifference to

everything but the impatience of returning to his profession--but his

wounds were mortal. The Prince rejoined the Army, which soon after

went into winter-quarters.

While the theatre of war was thus open to men so formed to shine

on it, another hero, who had been excluded from the scene, was in

a melancholy condition. The Duke of Cumberland in the summer had a

stroke of palsy. He soon recovered both his speech and limbs; but the

grossness of his constitution, and other disorders, made his friends

apprehend he would not long survive it. Himself treated it with

indifference, and with the same philosophy with which his high spirit

had supported misfortunes to him more sensible.

The martial temper of the age called forth a champion of dissimilar

complexion. There was in Ireland an Earl of Clanrickard, who, even

in this country, where singular characters are not uncommon, had

been reckoned more than ordinarily extravagant. The Duke of Bedford

had refused to let him raise a regiment. To prove his valour, he

challenged the Lord-Lieutenant, who contemning so improper an

adversary, the Earl printed in the public papers a letter to the

Duke, reproaching him with rejecting the challenge, and reflecting

both on his Grace and his secretary, whose bones he threatened

to break. Such an insult on the chief governor of a kingdom was

atrocious. The Privy Council of England ordered the Attorney-General

to commence a prosecution against the Earl. Mr. Rigby, whose spirit

was more questionless than the Earl’s, returned a challenge for

himself; but the Earl thought it safest to confine his prowess to the

master, and forbore coming to England. Three years afterwards, when

Rigby went to Ireland to qualify for a place, the Privy Council of

that kingdom obliged Lord Clanrickard to give security for his good

behaviour; and the matter was compromised.

* * * * *

These were the last events in the long and memorable reign of

George the Second--a reign that had produced as great statesmen,

orators, and heroes as dignify the annals of whatever country. His

thirteen first years were stamped with every blessing of peace, but

unanimity--if disagreement is an evil to a free country, to which

jealousy is perhaps essential. A Rebellion and two wars called forth

all our resources: the disgrace that attended the Councils and

prosecution of the first war served but to illustrate the abilities

of the nation, which, reviving from its ignominy and calamities,

carried the glory of our arms and measures to a height unknown in our

story. The Prince himself was neither accessary to the one or the

other. His greatest merit was bearing either fortune with calmness.

Triumphant as Elizabeth and Anne, he neither presumed on the zeal of

his subjects like the first, nor was so like the last as to concur

in or behold an ignominious peace, that tarnished such conspicuous

victories, and squandered such irrecoverable advantages. Full of

years and glory, he died without a pang, and without a reverse. He

left his family firmly established on a long-disputed Throne, and was

taken away in the moment that approaching extinction of sight and

hearing made loss of life the only blessing that remained desirable.

On the 25th of October he rose as usual at six, and drank his

chocolate; for all his actions were invariably methodic. A quarter

after seven he went into a little closet. His German _valet de

chambre_ in waiting, heard a noise, and running in, found the King

dead on the floor. In falling, he had cut his face against the

corner of a bureau. He was laid on a bed and blooded, but not a drop

followed: the ventricle of his heart had burst. Princess Amelie

was called, and told the King wanted her. She went immediately, and

thought him in a fit. Being deaf herself, she saw nothing in the

chamber that indicated his being dead; and putting her face close

to his, to hear if he spoke to her, she then first perceived he was

lifeless.

The character of this Prince has been so amply displayed in the

course of this work, that it were tautology to recapitulate it. His

faults were more the blemishes of a private man than of a King.

The affection and tenderness he invariably showed to a people over

whom he had unbounded rule, forbid our wondering that he used

circumscribed power with moderation. Often situated in humiliating

circumstances, his resentments seldom operated when the power of

revenge returned. He bore the ascendant of his Ministers, who

seldom were his favourites, with more patience than he suffered any

encroachment on his will from his mistresses. Content to bargain

for the gratification of his two predominant passions, Hanover and

money, he was almost indifferent to the rest of his royal authority,

provided exterior observance was not wanting; for he comforted

himself if he did not perceive the diminution of Majesty, though it

was notorious to all the rest of the world. Yet he was not so totally

careless of the affection and interests of this country as his father

had been. George the First possessed a sounder understanding and a

better temper: yet George the Second gained more by being compared

with his eldest son, than he lost if paralleled with his father. His

treatment of his second son, to whose valour he was indebted for the

preservation of his Crown, and to the silence and tenderness of whose

duty he owed the preservation of his honour, was punished by the

ingratitude of the Princess of Wales.

Bookish men have censured his neglect of literature--a reflection

that at least is evidence that public utility is not the sole purport

of their labours. But the advantages resulting to their country from

authors must be better ascertained, before the imputation becomes

a grave one. Had he pensioned half a dozen poets, and reaped their

incense, the world had heard of nothing but his liberality. Let Kings

prefer a Tillotson or a Seneca, nay, a Bacon or a Newton--if Bacon

or Seneca will not forget their philosophy. Let them enrich such

angelic men, when there are such angelic men, as Dr. Hales:[113] but

money is as well hoarded as squandered on Boileaus and Benserades, on

Atterburys and Drydens. In truth, I believe King George would have

preferred a guinea to a composition as perfect as Alexander’s Feast.

He certainly did not spare rewards to those who served their country.

The profusion of favours which he suffered the Duke of Newcastle to

shower on the University of Cambridge ought to disculpate the King

from the charge of neglecting literature--it was the fault of that

body if they were not learned.

If dying but moderately rich were as good a proof that he had not

been avaricious, one of the greatest stains of his character would be

effaced. By his will he gave fifty thousand pounds between his three

surviving children, the Duke, Princess Amelia, and Mary, Princess of

Hesse: a strong box, not to be opened, to Lady Yarmouth. The rest of

his private fortune he had given by a deed, executed soon after the

battle of Culloden, and unrevoked, to the Duke of Cumberland; who

thence became heir to his jewels (sold afterwards to the successor

for about fifty thousand pounds), and to his mortgages in Germany,

amounting to about an hundred and fourscore thousand more:--a scanty

pittance, if compared with what he must have amassed in a reign of

three and thirty years. For part of that term he had received yearly

to his own use an hundred thousand pounds from the civil list,

and never less than fifty thousand; relinquishing the rest to the

disposal of his Ministers for necessary services! At his accession

he was worth three hundred thousand pounds. The revenues of Hanover

exceeded five hundred thousand pounds a year; a sum he by no means

expended. Reduce his savings to the lowest, discount his purchases,

and swell Lady Yarmouth’s legacy, which was given out to be ten

thousand pounds, to four times that sum; and allow two millions,

which his last war is said to have cost him in defence of Hanover; it

will still be difficult to believe that he did not die worth three

hundred and fifty thousand pounds--what became of the rest, or how

concealed if there was more, I pretend not to determine, nor even to

guess.

The King himself had stated his late expense for Hanover still higher

than I have set down. Mr. Onslow, the Speaker, showed me a remarkable

paper, which had been brought to him at the King’s command, in the

year 1758, by Baron Munchausen,[114] with whom Mr. Onslow had no

acquaintance. In that memorandum, the King declared that he had then

expended on the war 2,500,000_l._, the savings of thirty years; that

he had borrowed above 200,000_l._ here in England, as much more in

Germany, and that the Hanoverian Chancery of war owed 200,000 rix

dollars. “The King,” concluded the paper, “can do no more himself

towards the war.”--If he did more in the two following years, and

it has never been pretended that he stopped his hand in 1758, his

remaining ability to go on induces a suspicion that there was as

little exactness observed in stating the rest of the account. On the

envelope of Munchausen’s paper Mr. Onslow had written, “I could send

no answer to this.”

The morning after the King’s death, the Duke of Cumberland sent for

Lord Waldegrave, and told him, that if, as Lady Yarmouth believed,

no new will had been made since that in Princess Amelie’s hands, his

father had done greatly for him--not, however, so largely as he had

once purposed: he had said to the Duke, “William, I see you will

never marry; it is in vain to think of making a great establishment

of a new branch through you: I shall do well for you for your life;

yet not so large as I should have done in that case.” This certainly

intimated a project of leaving his purchased Principalities in

Germany to the Duke.

Lord Waldegrave in return showed his Royal Highness an

_extraordinary_ piece; it was endorsed, _very private paper_, and was

a letter from the Duke of Newcastle to the first Earl of Waldegrave;

in which his Grace informed the Earl,[115] that he had received by

the messenger the copy of the will and codicil of George the First;

that he had delivered it to his Majesty, who put it into the fire

without opening it--“so,” adds the Duke, “we do not know whether it

confirms the other or not:” and he proceeds to say, “I dispatch a

messenger to the Duke of Wolfenbuttle with the treaty, in which is

granted all he desires; and we expect by the return of the messenger

the original will from him.” George the First had left two wills;

one in the hands of Dr. Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, the other

with the Duke of Wolfenbuttle. The Archbishop, on news of the King’s

death, carried his copy to the Privy Council, and, without the

precaution of opening it before them, which the poor man could not

apprehend would be so necessary as it proved, gave it into the new

King’s hands, who, to the Prelate’s great surprise, carried it from

Council _unopened_.[116] The letter I have quoted above shows what

was the fate of the other copy: the honest Duke of Wolfenbuttle sold

it for a subsidy! George the First had been in the right to take

those precautions: he himself had burned his wife’s testament,[117]

and her father’s, the Duke of Zelle, both of whom had made George the

Second their heir--a palliative of the latter’s obliquity, if justice

would allow of any violation.

FOOTNOTES:

[110] The same person who, when Governor of Minorca, was forced to

surrender it to the Spaniards in 1782.

[111] Jeffery Amherst, afterwards made Knight of the Bath, a Baron

of England, and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces of Great Britain,

from which post he was removed in 1782, was one of those men who, in

particular circumstances, in one period of their life have performed

not only great actions, but have conducted them with consummate

sense and address, and who in the rest of their lives have been

able to display no symptoms of genius. Amherst, who terminated the

war in America with so much ability, being afterwards raised to the

command of the Army at home, was discovered and universally allowed

to be a man of incapacity, or neglectful of the most common details

of his office. Whether conscious of his own defects, and of being

incompetent to converse with men whom he knew enlightened, he seemed

determined to bury his deficiency in obstinate silence; or else

his pride and vanity, of which he had a tolerable share, made him

disdain to communicate his paucity of ideas. No satisfaction could

be extorted from him on whatever business he was consulted; nor

was it much easier to obtain from him the necessary orders in his

department. In 1779, when the French Fleet arrived off Plymouth, he

could not have given more absurd directions had he meant to betray

the place; and, when every part of the coast was open to expected

invasion, he was nowhere prepared with the common necessaries

for taking the field. When reproached in Parliament with his

negligence and insufficiency, he confirmed them by the sullen and

inadequate brevity of his reply. When at last he was removed by the

preponderance of the Opposition in 1782, he fell as unregretted as he

had remained in place despised.

General Monk had been another of those temporary brilliants. All

the depths of refined policy had seemed to have conducted and

ensured his success. After the Restoration, not a gleam of genius

appeared, though he proved just the reverse of Amherst. Monk had

observed the most profound secrecy and dissimulation in conducting

the re-establishment of the King. He seems to have thrown off all

disguise in the rest of his life; though his activity remained,

whenever called out. Amherst assumed reserve when he had nothing

to conceal, and laid aside industry when it would have sufficed to

communicate vigour to others. When men shine but once, it is probable

that fortune has the chief merit in their success; and that others

impute to their foresight the lucky combinations of chance in their

favour.

In different parts of these Memoirs I am well aware that I have given

very different characters of some of the principal actors. The reason

is, that, having observed them well for a long series of years, I

have seen cause to change my opinions--perhaps the persons themselves

altered, for who is consistent? I choose to leave the portraits

with their variations; I think they were just at each period in

which they were drawn--the reader must judge from the conduct of

the persons; for he will observe, that, if I vary my accounts, I

produce the instances in which the actors appear different from

themselves. Lord Chatham I have described in all the lights in

which he appeared--sometimes a capital statesman, and sometimes an

empiric. The Duke of Cumberland I have shown to have become a most

wise, philosophic, and respectable, from a haughty and insolent

Prince. Lord George Sackville I have spoken of with admiration of

his parts, with great indecision on his spirit, with scorn of his

want of judgment, and of his want of abilities in the latter part of

his time. Lord Amherst was allowed for many years to have deserved

the encomiums I have given to his conduct in America. The contempt

conceived for him afterwards was so general, that, even while he

retained his power, he had not an advocate.--A.

The author’s notes were generally written many years after the

text. The above unfavourable portrait of Lord Amherst was probably

annexed to the MS. at the close of the American war, when political

animosities obscured every impartial view of living characters.

The panegyric in text was composed in 1763, Horace Walpole being

then more than ever disposed to magnify the events and extol the

tactics of the seven-years’ war. Allowance must be made for these

circumstances. We may abate something of the warmth of encomium in

the text, but we must also mitigate the bitterness which forms so

large an ingredient in the note.--E.

[112] Henry Pleydell Dawney, Viscount Downe of Ireland.

[113] Dr. Stephen Hales, parson of Teddington, Chaplain to Augusta,

Princess of Wales, author of several most humane and philosophic

works.

[114] The Minister for Hanover in England.

[115] Then ambassador in France.

[116] It was believed that George the First had bequeathed a

large sum to his daughter, the Queen of Prussia, and another to

his mistress, or rather left-handed wife, the Duchess of Kendal.

Frederic the Second, King of Prussia, was said to have often claimed

his mother’s legacy; and the Earl of Chesterfield, who married the

Countess of Walsingham, niece and heiress of the Duchess of Kendal,

commenced or threatened a suit for the Duchess’s legacy, and was

supposed to be quieted by a sum of twenty thousand pounds. Lady

Walsingham was believed to be the King’s daughter by the Duchess of

Kendal.

[117] (_Vide_ Appendix.)

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.

(_Vide page 309._)

I learned from Henrietta, Countess of Suffolk, mistress to George

the Second, the fact mentioned in text, of George the First burning

his wife’s testament. That Princess, the Electress of Hanover, liked

the famous Count Konigsmark, while her husband was at the Army.

The old Elector, father of George the First, ordered him away. The

Electress, then Hereditary Princess, was persuaded to let him kiss

her hand before his departure. She saw him in bed--he retired, and

was never heard of more. When George the Second went first to Hanover

after his father’s death, and made some alterations in the palace,

the body of Konigsmark was found under the floor of the chamber

next to the Electress’s chamber. He had been strangled immediately

on leaving her, by the old Elector’s order, and buried under the

floor. This fact _Queen Caroline related to my father_, Sir Robert

Walpole. George the Second told it to his wife, but never to his

mistress, Lady Suffolk, who had never heard it till I told it to her

many years after. The Electress was separated from George I. on that

amour, and was called Duchess of Halle; and he married the Duchess

of Kendal with his left hand. When the French threatened Hanover in

Queen Anne’s war, the Duchess of Halle was sent to her parents, the

Duke and Duchess of Zelle, who doted on her their only child, and

she stayed a year with them; but though they were most earnest to

retain her, she was forced to return to her confinement, in which

she died the year before her husband. Some French prophetess, as

supposed hired by the Duke of Zelle, warned George I. to take care of

his wife, for he would not long outlive her. As the Germans are very

superstitious, he believed the prophecy; and when he took leave of

his son and the Princess of Wales, Caroline, he told them he should

never see them more. George II., who hated his father and was very

fond of his mother, meant, if she had survived her husband, to bring

her over, and declare her Queen Dowager. Lady Suffolk told me, that

the morning after the news of the death of George I. arrived, when

she went, as Woman of the Bed-chamber, to the new Queen, she found

a whole and half-length portraits of the Electress hung up in the

apartment; George II. had had them locked up, but had not dared

to produce them. Princess Amelie has the half-length at her house

in Cavendish-square. George I. told the Duchess of Kendal, that if

he could, he would appear to her after his death. Soon after that

event, a large bird, I forget of what sort, flew into her window.

She believed it was the King’s soul, and took the utmost care of

it. George II. was not less credulous; he believed in vampires.

His son Frederic affected the same contradictory fondness for his

grandfather, and erected the statue of George I. in Leicester-fields;

and intended, if he had come to the crown, to place a monument to his

memory in St. Paul’s.

George I., besides the Duchess of Kendal, had several other

mistresses, particularly one whom he brought over and created

Countess of Darlington; by whom he was father of Charlotte,

Viscountess Howe, though she was not publicly avowed. In the last

year or two of his life he had another mistress, Miss Anne Brett,

daughter, by her second husband, Colonel Brett, of the famous

divorced Countess of Macclesfield, mother of Savage, the poet. Miss

Brett had an apartment given to her in the palace at St. James’s, and

was to have been created a Countess, if the King had returned.

INDEX.

INDEX

OF THE

NAMES OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN THESE MEMOIRS.

Abercrombie, General, iii. 91, 134.

Adams, Judge, iii. 118.

Ailesbury, Earl of, ii. 272.

Albemarle, W. A. Van Keppel, Earl of, i. 82, 194, 422, 423; ii. 18;

iii. 44, 155, 169, 267, 271.

Albemarle, Lady, i. 82; iii. 268.

Aldworth, Mr., i. 193.

Allen, Mr., iii. 5.

Amelie, Princess, i. 401, 451; ii. 39, 371; iii. 269, 303, 305, 307,

315.

Amherst, General, iii. 91, 133, 211, 218, 235, 285, 287, 288, 289.

Andrews, Dr., i. 367.

Andrié, M., i. 455.

Anhalt-Dessau, Prince of, ii. 411.

Anhalt, Prince of, iii. 195.

Ankram, Lord, i. 60.

Anson, Lord, i. 38, 68, 115, 187, 192, 194, 256, 304, 331, 345, 380;

ii. 2, 33, 69, 184, 195, 228, 270, 305, 310, 317, 343, 356,

371; iii. 22, 32, 34, 46, 62, 105, 124.

Anspach, Margrave of, i. 288; ii. 393.

Anstis, Mr., ii. 393.

Anstruther, General, i. 42, 43, 44, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 68, 81,

95, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112.

Apraxin, iii. 122.

Archer, Lord, i. 8.

Argyle, John, Duke of, i. 43, 164, 178, 209; ii. 191, 303.

Argyle, Archibald, Duke of, i. 41, 81, 251, 257, 273, 274, 275, 277,

278, 331, 363, 380, 390; ii. 187, 300, 301; iii. 157, 281.

Armitage, Sir John, iii. 124, 136.

Arran, Lord, iii. 157, 166.

Arundel, Mr., ii. 143; iii. 6.

Ashburnham, Lord, iii. 21.

Ashton, iii. 98.

Asturias, Prince of, iii. 208, 209.

Atcheson, Sir Archibald, iii. 73.

Augusta, the Lady, i. 73, 83, 289; ii. 206.

Austria, Empress of, ii. 219, 232, 238, 239, 240, 241, 313; iii. 12,

122, 247, 248, 289.

Ayscough, Dr., i. 79, 201.

Baker, Alderman, i. 71; ii. 304.

Balfour, General, iii. 257, 266, 267.

Baltimore, Lord, i. 87.

Bareil, M. de, iii. 167.

Barnard, Lord, i. 388, 389.

Barnard, Sir John, i. 8, 45, 46, 54, 133, 211, 218, 255, 357, 365,

369; ii. 177; iii. 5.

Barri, Madame du, iii. 245.

Barrington, General, iii. 170.

Barrington, William Barrington Shute, Viscount, i, 12, 31, 211, 220,

388, 410; ii. 45, 86, 89, 106, 118, 141, 142, 144, 157, 158,

159, 162, 163, 188, 251, 320; iii. 88, 212, 213, 234, 265, 280.

Bateman, Lord, ii. 140, 274; iii. 32.

Bath, Earl of, i. 25, 36, 46, 90, 93, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 141,

147, 171, 173, 174, 191, 205, 206, 222, 262, 272, 275, 330,

337, 348; ii. 202; iii. 105, 233, 250, 270.

Bathurst, Henry, i. 8, 31, 96.

Bathurst, Lord, i. 433; ii. 49, 258.

Bathurst, Judge, iii. 119, 269.

Bavaria, Electress of, ii. 397.

Beck, General, iii. 295.

Beaufort, Duke of, i. 275.

Beckford, Mr., i. 153, 213, 218, 243, 254, 255, 257, 307, 345, 404,

411, 412; ii. 13, 52, 67, 82, 95, 96, 118, 129, 144, 152, 155,

191, 302, 322, 375; iii. 88, 150, 177, 178, 183, 224, 225, 279.

Beckford, Mr., Jun., i. 410.

Bedford, John, Duke of, i. 1, 2, 3, 22, 34, 47, 55, 61, 62, 68, 69,

79, 81, 99, 122, 147, 153, 161, 165, 167, 171, 182, 185, 186,

187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 199, 226, 233, 239, 240, 241,

242, 244, 247, 250, 252, 254, 256, 263, 264, 268, 271, 272,

274, 277, 295, 309, 310, 311, 313, 316, 325, 329, 332, 336,

345, 347, 350, 360, 369, 414, 415; ii. 19, 45, 46, 47, 49, 91,

97, 104, 124, 139, 140, 186, 187, 201, 254, 255, 261, 265,

268, 269, 271, 284, 315, 326, 332, 354, 357, 373, 378, 379;

iii. 11, 16, 20, 29, 34, 65, 68, 71, 91, 92, 93, 94, 157, 181,

224, 240, 242, 243, 245, 254, 264, 300, 301.

Bedford, Duchess of, i. 3, 186, 242, 352, 414, 416; ii. 46; iii. 66,

95, 233, 254.

Behan, Mrs., i. 439.

Belchier, Mr., i. 63.

Belleisle, Marshal, iii. 127, 184, 223, 244.

Benedict XIV., Pope, ii. 279, 280; iii. 131, 143.

Bentinck, Monsieur, i. 207.

Bentley, Captain John, ii. 290, 364.

Berkeley, Earl, i. 98; ii. 274.

Bernis, Cardinal de, iii. 157, 158.

Bertie, Lord Robert, i. 94; ii. 292; iii. 272.

Bertie, Norris, i. 133, 213.

Berwick, Duke of, i. 4, 5.

Besborough, Earl of, i. 196, 282, 391; ii. 19, 25, 183.

Bestucheff, Chancellor, iii. 122.

Bettesworth, Dr. John, i. 91.

Bevern, Prince of, iii. 80.

Blackbourn, Dr., Archbishop of York, i. 87, 446.

Blacket, Sir Walter, i. 243, 254.

Blair, Mr., iii. 76.

Blakeney, General, ii. 190, 212, 225, 275, 297.

Blakiston, a grocer, i. 36.

Bland, Dr. Henry, i. 65.

Blighe, General, iii. 126, 133, 135, 137, 150, 154.

Bloodworth, Mr., i. 96.

Bollan, Mr., ii. 170, 172, 173, 174.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, i. 73, 80, 140, 209, 220, 222,

224, 225, 284, 288, 445, 462, 464; iii. 106.

Bolton, Harry, Duke of, iii. 237.

Bolton, Charles, Duke of, iii. 237.

Boscawen, Admiral, i. 101, 194; ii. 13, 27, 286, 287, 294; iii. 2,

133, 134, 150, 211.

Bonville, M., iii. 52.

Boone, Mr., i. 96.

Bothmar, Baron, ii. 123.

Bower, Arch., iii. 97, 180, 250.

Bowes, Mr., i. 145.

Bowes, Lord Chancellor, iii. 241.

Boyle, Bellingham, i. 368.

Boyle, Lady Charlotte, i. 195.

Boyle, Mr., i. 279, 280, 282, 356, 367; ii. 183, 184.

Boyce, Captain, ii. 364.

Boys, Captain William, ii. 290.

Braddock, General, i. 400; ii. 29, 30, 31, 46, 86, 95, 195, 341.

Bradstreet, Colonel, iii. 134.

Brereton, Major, iii. 289.

Brett, Miss Anne, iii. 315.

Bristol, Earl of, i. 67; iii. 83.

Broderick, Rear-Admiral, ii. 290, 341, 362; iii. 51, 77.

Broglio, Duc de, iii. 128, 199, 248, 297.

Brown, Marshal, ii. 242, 243; iii. 13.

Brown, Lady, iii. 186.

Bruce, Mr., i. 266.

Bruce, Lady Mary, ii. 317.

Brudenel, Mr., ii. 258.

Brudenel, Colonel Robert, iii. 154.

Bruhl, Count, ii. 233, 234, 235, 236, 238, 239, 242, 395, 397, 398,

404, 405, &c.; iii. 248.

Brunswick, Duke of, i. 149.

Brunswick, Duchess of, i. 73.

Brunswick, Princess of, ii. 35.

Buckinghamshire, John, Earl of, i. 177; iii. 227.

Buckingham, Duchess of, i. 119.

Burdett, Sir Robert, i. 95.

Burgundy, Duchess of, ii. 210.

Burlington, Richard, Earl of, i. 195.

Bury, Lord, i. 82.

Bussy, Abbé de, ii. 28.

Butcher, Mr., i. 193.

Bute, Earl of, i. 47, 136, 438; ii. 204, 205, 206, 221, 222, 223, 256,

257, 258, 259, 265; iii. 25, 28, 29, 39, 40, 99, 100,

121, 157, 183, 237, 251, 260, 274.

Butler, Dr., Bishop of Durham, i. 148.

Byng, Admiral, i. 4; ii. 190, 212, 214, 216, 225, 227, 228, 245, 247,

249, 275, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 305, 307; iii. 118.

Cadogan, Lord, ii. 191.

Cadogan, Mr., ii. 258.

Calabria, Duke of, iii. 206.

Calcraft, Mr., ii. 42; iii. 29.

Calhoen, Mr., ii. 415.

Cameron, Dr. Archibald, i. 333, 353.

Campbell, General, i. 258.

Campbell, Alexander Hume, i. 19; ii. 107, 108, 112, 114, 116, 118,

125, 126, 142, 143, 146, 149, 179, 322, 323, 330; iii. 6, 7,

9, 23.

Campbell, John, of Calder, ii. 14; iii. 182.

Campbell, Lord Frederic, iii. 257.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, i. 74.

Cardigan, Earl of, i. 255, 260, 278.

Carlisle, Lord, i. 174; ii. 274.

Carmarthen, Francis Osborne, Marquis of, iii. 276.

Caroline, her Majesty Queen, i. 65, 74, 76, 164, 177, 178, 179, 181,

182, 198, 207, 208, 221, 223, 276; ii. 207, 374; iii. 82, 83,

268, 313, 314.

Caroline, Princess, iii. 82, 100, 269.

Carne, Mr., i. 26, 95.

Carneguy, Mr., i. 60.

Carpenter, Lord, i. 26, 27, 32, 200.

Carter, Mr., i. 281, 368; ii. 183.

Carteret, Lord, i. 163.

Carysfort, Lord, iii. 3.

Cathcart, Lord, i. 78; ii. 105.

Cavalchini, Cardinal, iii. 131, 132.

Cavendish, Lord John, i. 195.

Cavendish, Lord George, iii. 10.

Chapeau, M., i. 457, 458.

Chapman, Dr., i. 304.

Charles, Prince of Austria, ii. 131; iii. 14, 80.

Chateauroux, Duchesse de, i. 335; ii. 211.

Cheselden, John, i. 177.

Chesterfield, Philip, Earl of, i. 46, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 73, 165,

167, 171, 177, 204, 209, 275, 450; ii. 21, 45, 103, 149, 416;

iii. 30, 55, 167, 199.

Chevert, M., iii. 128, 129.

Child, Sir Josiah, iii. 178.

Choiseul, Duc de, iii. 244.

Cholmondeley, George, Earl of, i. 173, 363; ii. 141, 143, 363.

Cholmondeley, Mr., i. 330.

Cholmondeley, General, ii. 284; iii. 78, 79, 271, 272.

Churchill, General, i. 24.

Cibber, Colley, iii. 81.

Clair, St., General, i. 44, 56.

Clanrickard, Earl of, iii. 300, 301.

Clarges, Sir Thomas, i. 32.

Clarke, Dr., i. 65.

Clarke, Mr., iii. 43, 51, 77, 96, 137.

Clayton, Dr., Bishop of Clogher, iii. 96, 97.

Cleland, Mr., ii. 295.

Clavering, Colonel, iii. 170.

Clement, Jacques, i. 184.

Clermont, Comte de, iii. 104, 127.

Clive, General, iii. 57, 89, 90.

Clive, Judge, iii. 269.

Cobham, Richard Grenville, Lord, i. 79, 92, 134, 135, 158, 241, 243;

ii. 99, 160; iii. 167, 179, 213.

Coke, Lord, i. 16, 20, 28, 208, 210, 211, 212, 259.

Cologne, Elector of, i. 81.

Colville, Lord, iii. 284.

Coloredo, M., iii. 35.

Compagni, Don Juan, i. 58.

Conflans, Admiral, iii. 231, 232, 262.

Contades, General, iii. 128, 191, 199, 216.

Conway, Lord, i. 41.

Conway, Henry Seymour, i. 13, 41, 57, 60, 341, 390, 403, 404, 414,

415; ii. 2, 3, 20, 23, 24, 25, 144, 147, 183, 268, 269, 302,

317, 318, 331, 335; iii. 3, 19, 29, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 51,

53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 68, 70, 74, 77, 79, 91, 93, 94, 107,

154, 156, 167, 172, 214, 246, 252, 253, 271.

Cooke, Mr., i. 13, 14, 15, 16, 30, 32, 84, 218, 254; iii. 184.

Coote, Colonel, iii. 289.

Cope, Sir John, i. 172.

Cornbury, Lord, i. 233.

Cornwall, Velters, ii. 346.

Cornwallis, Colonel, i. 63, 69, 307; ii. 86, 284; iii. 49, 53, 56,

91, 155.

Cotton, Sir John Hinde, i. 8, 14, 22, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 124,

136, 142, 144, 208, 213, 219, 255; ii. 103.

Courtney, Mr., i. 407.

Coventry, Lord, i. 208.

Coventry, Mr., iii. 183.

Cowper, Dr., Dean of Durham, i. 304, 314, 318.

Cox, Sir Richard, i. 281; iii. 96, 246.

Craggs, James, Esq., i. 34, 232.

Crawley, Sir Ambrose, Knt., i. 34.

Cresset, Mr., i. 92, 226, 284, 290; ii. 205.

Crooke, Mrs., i. 176.

Crowle, Mr., i. 17, 19, 20, 21.

Cunningham, Captain, ii. 226; iii. 71, 137, 274.

Cumberland, H. R. H. William, Duke of, i. 2, 39, 40, 47, 69, 78, 79,

90, 98, 99, 103, 104, 105, 132, 157, 189, 212, 213, 227, 251,

260, 262, 275, 302, 384, 403, 419, 436; ii. 11, 15, 19, 22,

29, 32, 38, 42, 105, 140, 156, 157, 176, 203, 204, 219, 257,

276, 306, 347, 373, 374, 376, 377, 379, 389; iii. 13, 23, 31,

35, 36, 45, 46, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71,

74, 77, 83, 85, 86, 105, 108, 111, 137, 156, 161, 172, 233,

234, 253, 260, 267, 268, 287, 300, 305, 307.

Cummings, Mr., i. 266, 270, 275.

Cust, Sir John, i. 96.

Czernichew, Count, iii. 295.

D’Abreu, M., ii. 215, 262; iii. 59, 131.

Dacre, Lord, ii. 175.

D’Affry, M., iii. 236.

D’Aiguillon, Duc, iii. 126, 135, 136.

Dalkeith, Countess Dowager of, ii. 224.

Dalrymple, Sir Hugh, i. 48.

Damiens, ii. 282.

Darcy, Sir Conyers, ii. 143.

D’Argenson, M., ii. 176.

Darlington, Earl of, i. 389; ii. 140, 274.

Dartmouth, Earl of, i. 190.

Dashwood, Sir Francis, i. 10, 27, 122; ii. 3, 14, 61, 144, 146, 181,

312, 318, 323, 328, 330, 336, 380; iii. 266.

Dashwood, Sir James, i. 364.

Daun, Marshal, iii. 12, 35, 80, 122, 123, 147, 148, 149, 200, 202,

203, 204, 289, 291, 292, 293, 296.

Davidson, Mr., i. 266.

Davison, Major, i. 314.

D’Ayen, Le Duc, ii. 282.

Delaval, Mr., i. 61, 124, 254; ii. 120.

Delaval, Mr., jun., i. 408.

Denbigh, Lord, ii. 351, 357; iii. 20, 106, 111, 179, 180, 183.

Dennis, Captain Peter, ii. 290, 318, 329, 365.

Denmark, King of, i. 227; iii. 13.

Denmark, her Majesty the Queen of, i. 227, 228.

D’Etrées, Marshal, ii. 373; iii. 37, 127, 216.

Devonshire, William, Duke of, i. 114, 195, 196, 286, 303, 321, 327,

378, 381; ii. 22, 39, 49, 85, 109, 183, 222, 258, 263, 265,

267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 274, 275, 284, 302, 357, 372, 378,

379, 386; iii. 2, 11, 15, 19, 20, 43, 62, 81, 84, 93, 114,

157, 161, 228.

Dickinson, Alderman, ii. 368.

Dieskau, Baron de, ii. 46.

Digby, Mr., i. 94.

Digby, Lord, ii. 203, 251, 258; iii. 88.

Digby, Captain, iii. 232.

Diggs, the actor, i. 389.

Dilks, Mr., i. 368.

Doddington, George Bubb, i. 8, 11, 47, 73, 74, 77, 87, 88, 89, 345,

437, 439; ii. 19, 51, 61, 140, 144, 146, 182, 186, 261, 274,

320, 339; iii. 2, 3, 150, 265, 266.

Dohna, General, iii. 138, 139, 200.

D’Ollone, M., ii. 411, 412.

Doneraile, Arthur St. Leger, Viscount, i. 74.

Dorset, Lionel Cranfield, Duke of, i. 5, 81, 97, 98; iii. 191.

Dorset, Charles Sackville, Duke of, i. 96, 97, 193, 279, 280, 283,

328, 354, 356, 368, 390, 391; ii. 3, 10, 19; iii. 23, 28, 33,

41, 254, 265.

Dorset, J. F. Sackville, Duke of, i. 97.

Douglas, Mr., i. 96.

Douglas, Capt. James, ii. 290, 364.

Douglas, Dr., iii. 180, 250.

Dowdeswell, Mr., i. 28, 144, 145.

Downe, Lord, i. 94, 208; ii. 202; iii. 124, 233, 234, 299.

Drax, Mr. Secretary, i. 87.

Drummond, Dr. Hay, Bishop of St. Asaph, i. 308, 328, 359; iii. 107.

Dubacq, Monsr., i. 207.

Dumfries, Earl of, i. 260.

Dunbar, Titular Earl of, i. 150, 286.

Dunbar, Colonel, ii. 31, 32.

Duncannon, Lord, i. 196; ii. 19.

Dundas, Lord Advocate, ii. 79, 144.

Dunk, Miss Anne, i. 200.

Duplin, Lord, i. 16, 27, 58, 63, 209, 307, 328, 383, 388, 391;

ii. 106, 140, 144, 146, 261; iii. 6, 183.

Durell, Admiral, iii. 218.

Durham, Bishop of, ii. 171.

Durini, Cardinal, iii. 132, 133.

Dury, General, iii. 136.

Earle, Giles, Esq., i. 91, 439.

Edgecumbe, Mr., ii. 140, 274.

Edgecumbe, Captain, ii. 225.

Edgecumbe, Lord, iii. 23.

Edward, Prince, i. 73, 80, 117, 228, 260, 289; ii. 207, 258, 259;

iii. 62, 126, 133.

Effingham, Lord, ii. 284.

Egerton, Lady Sophia, ii. 371.

Eglinton, Lord, ii. 300.

Egmont, John Perceval, Earl of, i. 8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 27, 28,

31, 35, 37, 40, 47, 49, 50, 57, 60, 61, 64, 80, 156, 158,

209, 213, 216, 219, 223, 294, 342, 345, 357, 363, 404, 405,

418, 420, 421; ii. 7, 9, 40, 54, 134, 144, 172, 173, 261,

387, 388, 389; iii. 2, 19, 23, 279.

Egremont, Earl of, i. 80; ii. 105; iii. 2.

Elibank, Lord, i. 17.

Elliot, Mr., ii. 4, 15, 79, 80, 134, 144, 274, 311; iii. 3.

Elliot, Sir Gilbert, iii. 264.

Ellis, Mr., i. 254; ii. 44, 67, 79, 141, 144, 153, 329; iii. 7, 26, 27.

Elizabeth, The Lady, ii. 206; iii. 211.

Emily, Princess, i. 73, 76, 78, 160, 182, 226, 309, 401, 445; ii. 220,

221, 306, 376; iii. 61, 83, 100.

Erskine, Sir Henry, i. 41, 42, 43, 44, 54, 56, 57, 63, 64, 68, 106,

107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 220, 243, 254, 295; ii. 150, 159,

160, 161, 163; iii. 99, 280.

Eugene, Prince, ii. 138.

Euston, Lord, ii. 258.

Evans, Mr., ii. 270.

Fagel, Greffier, i. 198, 207.

Falconberg, Lady, i. 432.

Fane, Lord, i. 407, 409; ii. 47, 94.

Farnham, Lord, iii. 242.

Fawcett, Mr. Attorney, i. 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 314, 316, 319,

322, 324, 326.

Fazakerley, Mr., i. 111, 126, 144, 146, 152, 159, 254, 257, 342;

ii. 12.

Ferdinand, Prince, of Brunswick, iii. 81, 104, 126, 127, 128, 129,

147, 150, 174, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 196, 197, 213, 214,

216, 238, 253, 254, 256, 257, 268-9, 271, 273, 297, 298, 299.

Ferrers, Earl, iii. 257, 258, 261, 274, 5, 6.

Fielding, Henry, i. 14, 44.

Finch, Edward, ii. 120.

Finkenstein, Count, i. 448, 454, 455.

Firebrace, Sir Cordel, i. 307.

Fitz-morrice, Lord, iii. 137.

Fitzroy, Charles, iii. 54.

Fitzroy, Colonel, iii. 191, 194, 195, 214.

Fitzwalter, Earl of, i. 198, 421.

Fitzwalter, Lady, i. 198.

Fitzwilliam, Colonel, i. 40; ii. 347.

Fitzwilliam, General, iii. 264.

Fleming, Count, ii. 235.

Fleury, Cardinal, i. 336.

Folkestone, Lord, i. 122.

Foley, Lord, i. 116.

Forbes, Admiral, ii. 274, 311.

Forbes, Colonel, ii. 373.

Forbes, General, iii. 134.

Fortescue, Lord, ii. 364.

Foster, Judge, iii. 119.

Fowke, General, ii. 214, 216, 229, 230, 284.

Fox, Henry, i. 8, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 37, 40, 44,

47, 48, 55, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 68, 69, 70, 76, 92, 93,

94, 95, 104, 110, 112, 129, 132, 137, 138, 139, 143, 147, 149,

151, 152, 157, 158, 185, 197, 205, 212, 213, 243, 254, 304,

342, 343, 346, 349, 352, 379, 380, 381, 383, 384, 386, 387,

392, 407, 410, 411, 414, 417, 418, 419, 420; ii. 3, 9, 11, 12,

13, 16, 17, 21, 25, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48,

61, 62, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 83, 84, 90, 91,

105, 106, 107, 116, 126, 132, 139, 141, 143, 148, 152, 154,

155, 159, 160, 161, 163, 169, 171, 172, 174, 179, 182, 184,

187, 191, 195, 205, 214, 221, 223, 228, 245, 249, 250, 251,

252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 260, 261, 262, 263, 265, 266, 267,

268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 275, 276, 284, 301, 302, 304, 305,

309, 312, 314, 325, 326, 328, 332, 333, 334, 335, 339, 340,

341, 342, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 372, 375, 376, 379, 380,

385, 389, 393; iii. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22,

24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 40, 55, 61, 63, 68, 72,

76, 88, 92, 105, 108, 109, 114, 125, 157, 160, 172, 174, 175,

181, 234, 243, 253.

Fox, Lady Caroline, ii. 316, 317; iii. 3.

Francis, Rev. Mr., ii. 276.

Francis, Prince, of Brunswick, iii. 148.

Frederick, H. R. H., Prince of Wales, i. 432, 434, 436, 438.

Vide _Wales_.

Fredersdorff, M., i. 449, 456.

French, Jeffery, ii. 125.

Furnese, Harry, i. 118; ii. 141.

Fynte, Sir Charles, i. 22.

Gage, Lord, ii. 141.

Galissoniere, M., ii. 215, 225, 312.

Gally, Dr., i. 49.

Gardiner, Luke, i. 356.

Gardiner, Captain, ii. 292.

Gascoyne, Mr., i. 26.

Gates, General, i. 400.

Geary, Captain Francis, ii. 290, 340, 342, 343, 344, 363, 364, 365.

George I., King, i. 92, 221, 223, 402; iii. 153, 167, 261, 307, 308,

309, 313, 314.

George II., King, i. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 21, 61, 62, 64, 71, 74,

77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 92, 96, 98, 99, 104, 114,

121, 157, 158, 164, 172, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 181,

182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 193, 198, 199, 200, 201, 207,

212, 220, 223, 240, 241, 242, 244, 256, 257, 271, 275, 278,

288, 289, 291, 302, 309, 311, 321, 349, 352, 356, 378, 380,

381, 385, 389, 398, 400, 402, 403, 417, 419, 420; ii. 18, 19,

20, 22, 28, 33, 37, 40, 150, 158, 169, 170, 186, 188, 194,

206, 207, 208, 217, 219, 221, 222, 223, 228, 230, 238, 249,

250, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, 262, 263, 266, 267, 269, 270,

272, 274, 283, 306, 309, 311, 313, 317, 319, 323, 331, 332,

334, 337, 341, 354, 362, 365, &c.; iii. 3, 4, 5, 11, 12, 15,

17, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 42, 46, 53, 58, 61,

62, 63, 64, 74, 75, 77, 80, 82, 83, 88, 89, 91, 94, 100, 104,

111, 113, 125, 127, 162, 170, 171, 180, 182, 184, 186, 190,

213, 228, 236, 238, 248, 251, 253, 260, 265, 268, 270, 273,

276, 279, 281, 299, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 309, 313,

314.

George, H. R. H., Prince of Wales, i. 78, 79, 80, 81, 86, 94, 105,

114, 116, 161, 283, 287, 289, 314; ii. 35, 104, 204, 221, 222,

251, 258; iii. 99, 121, 222, 260, 261, 274.

Gibson, i. 17, 22, 27, 32.

Gilbert, Archbishop, ii. 374.

Gisors, Duc de, iii. 127.

Glenorchy, Lord, i. 66.

Glover, Mr., i. 439.

Godolphin, Lord, i. 221.

Golding, Mr., i. 48.

Gooch, Dr., Bishop of Ely, i. 148.

Gore, Sir Arthur, ii. 183.

Gower, R. L., i. 3, 260.

Gower, Lady Eliz. Leveson, i. 188.

Gower, John, Baron, i. 13, 34, 67, 69, 81, 173, 186, 188, 192, 193,

226, 260, 422; ii. 2, 139, 202, 203; iii. 23, 31, 280.

Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, Duke of, i. 48, 81, 180, 181, 182, 309,

328; ii. 186, 187, 259, 260, 268, 274; iii. 15, 191.

Granville, Earl, i. 5, 7, 9, 44, 46, 47, 53, 67, 74, 80, 88, 90, 93,

105, 121, 165, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175,

179, 184, 194, 197, 222, 233, 252, 253, 277, 304, 328, 349,

361, 362, 382, 388; ii. 43, 62, 105, 122, 133, 146, 184, 201,

213, 220, 222, 252, 253, 268, 284, 354, 378, 386, 390, 391;

iii. 2, 21, 29, 62, 85, 86, 87, 116, 158.

Graham, Mr., i. 184.

Granby, Lord, ii. 19, 124, 131, 301, 306; iii. 10, 124, 147, 192,

194, 195, 197, 214, 253, 271.

Gray, Mr., i. 145, 307, 409.

Gray, the Poet, iii. 82.

Grantham, Lord, i. 221.

Greaves, Admiral, iii. 50.

Gregory, Dr., i. 66.

Grammont, Duchesse de, iii. 245.

Grenville, George, i. 13, 18, 60, 134, 136, 387; ii. 52, 62, 82, 84,

110, 129, 144, 146, 153, 154, 162, 181, 195, 196, 257, 274,

327, 330, 335, 341, 380; iii. 2, 15, 25, 105, 183, 230.

Grenville, James, i. 136; ii. 62, 161, 257, 274; iii. 15, 279.

Grenville, Richard, i. 437.

Grenville, Thomas, iii. 230.

Grey, Lady Mary, i. 66.

Grey, Marchioness de, i. 66.

Grierson, Mr., ii. 155.

Griffith, Colonel Edward, i. 7.

Grosvenor, Sir Richard, iii. 150.

Guildford, Earl of, iii. 184.

Guerini, Father, ii. 397, 399, 405, 408.

Gybbon, Mr., i. 118, 143, 178.

Haldane, Colonel, i. 57, 59, 81, 243; ii. 128, 341.

Hale, Colonel, iii. 234.

Hales, Dr., ii. 63; iii. 304.

Halifax, George Montagu, Earl of, i. 62, 63, 68, 186, 199, 200, 220,

251, 295, 340, 397; ii. 48, 86, 94, 105, 155, 175, 176, 201,

317, 353, 355, 359, 360, &c.; iii. 34.

Halley, Dr., ii. 63.

Halsen, Count, iii. 295.

Hamilton, Lord Archibald, i. 75.

Hamilton, Lady Archibald, i. 74, 75, 76.

Hamilton, Sir James, i. 368.

Hamilton, William Gerard, ii. 44, 51, 140; iii. 3.

Hampden, Mr., i. 18, 254, 342.

Hanbury, i. 401.

Handasyde, General, i. 10.

Hanmer, Lady Catherine, i. 432.

Harcourt, Simon, Earl of, i. 86, 94, 283, 289, 290, 305, 316, 319,

323, 325, 332, 361.

Harding, Mr., i. 29, 30, 58, 134, 226, 418, 420.

Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, ii. 104, 202, 206, 218, 221, 249, 254,

257, 273, 277, 307, 310, 317, 343, 352, 354, 355, 356, 357,

359, 360, 363, 366, 378, 387; iii. 11, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22,

23, 31, 32, 33, 38, 59, 60, 62, 80, 103, 105, 106, 107, 110,

114, 116, 121, 161, 179, 280.

Harley, Lord, i. 144, 218, 254, 364.

Harrington, William Stanhope, Earl of, i. 3, 4, 5, 75, 165, 170, 173,

175, 279, 280, 282; iii. 34.

Harris, Mr., ii. 375.

Hartington, Marquis of, i. 12, 19, 20, 87, 184, 193, 194, 195, 196,

197, 209, 328, 381, 382, 384, 385; ii. 3, 18, 20, 23, 24, 26,

39, 41, 385, 387, 389.

Haviland, Colonel, iii. 287.

Hawke, Sir Edward, ii. 32, 215, 227; iii. 50, 51, 53, 54, 56, 77, 78,

124, 231, 237.

Hawkins, Mr. Surgeon, i. 71.

Hawley, General, i. 103, 302, 303, 327.

Hay, Dr., ii. 17, 54, 85, 134, 144, 146, 182, 271, 274, 311, 372.

Hay, Lord Charles, iii. 269.

Hayter, Dr., Bishop of Norwich, i. 87, 283, 284, 301, 305, 325, 332.

Hedges, Charles, i. 77.

Heichel, M., i. 449, 455.

Heinnech, Monsieur, ii. 408, 409.

Henley, Mr., i. 8, 96, 108, 124, 143, 345, 421; ii. 273, 339; iii. 9.

Henley, Sir Robert, iii. 33, 34, 267, 274.

Henry, Prince, of Prussia, i. 447; iii. 138, 204, 290, 291, 293, 294.

Hensey, Dr., iii. 130.

Herbert, Nich., i. 226.

Hereford, Viscount, i. 116.

Herring, Archbishop, i. 91, 148; ii. 374.

Hertford, Earl of, i. 41, 94, 390; ii. 2, 265, 268, 274; iii. 58, 114,

155, 228.

Hervey, John, Lord, i. 67, 75, 119, 170, 205, 455; iii. 83.

Hervey, Felton, i. 260.

Hesse, Landgrave of, i. 288, 405, 406; ii. 106, 120, 128; iii. 150.

Hesse, Mary, Princess of, iii. 100, 305.

Hesse Cassel, Frederick, Hereditary Prince of, i. 405.

Hill, Mr., i. 390; iii. 94.

Hilsborough, Earl of, i. 80, 145, 243, 259, 342, 388; ii. 49, 140,

143, 144, 274; iii. 94, 239, 280.

Hinchinbroke, Viscount, i. 200.

Hoadley, Dr., Bishop of Winchester, i. 148.

Hobart, Sir Henry, i. 177.

Hobart, Lord, ii. 141.

Hobson, iii. 155.

Hogarth, iii. 99.

Holbourn, Rear-Admiral, ii. 290, 341, 360; iii. 40, 80.

Holderness, Robert Darcy, Earl of, i. 198, 199, 207, 239, 289, 331,

354, 388, 400; ii. 34, 38, 62, 96, 105, 124, 249, 266, 270,

387; iii. 1, 11, 27, 31, 34, 62, 212, 236, 251, 252, 253.

Holmes, Captain Charles, ii. 290, 340, 341, 342, 362.

Holmes, Mr., ii. 344, 345.

Home, Lord, i. 19.

Home, John, iii. 39, 99.

Hopson, General, iii. 169, 170, 171.

Hoskins, John, Esq., i. 195.

Houblon, Jacob, Esq., i. 34.

Howard, General, iii. 50, 51, 56.

Howard, Sir Charles, iii. 270.

Howe, Captain, ii. 27; iii. 50, 51, 55, 56.

Howe, Commodore, iii. 124, 125, 133.

Howe, Lord, iii. 134, 135, 232.

Hugo, iii. 274.

Hunter, Mr., ii. 274, 312, 325.

Huntingdon, Lord, ii. 258.

Huske, General, ii. 284.

Hussey, Mr., i. 206; ii. 11.

Hutchinson, Hely, iii. 245, 246.

Hutton, Archbishop, i. 148; ii. 374; iii. 107.

Hyndford, Lord, i. 450; iii. 111.

Ilchester, Lord, i. 93, 205; ii. 105, 203, 253, 416.

Imhoff, Baron, iii. 128, 129.

Inchiquin, Lord, iii. 241.

Ingram, Mr., ii. 258.

Inverness, Titular Count of, i. 286.

Irby, Sir William, i. 87.

Islay, Lord, i. 164.

Issarts, Mons. des, ii. 401.

Jansen, Alderman, i. 30, 212.

Jefferies, Lieutenant Colonel, ii. 226, 230.

Jekyll, Sir Joseph, i. 67; ii. 134.

Jenyns, Soame, ii. 140; iii. 179.

Jennings, Lieutenant-Colonel, iii. 263, 4.

Joddrell, Mr. Solicitor, i. 71, 96.

Johnson, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, i. 291, 303, 304, 314, 315, 318,

319, 325, 327; iii. 215.

Johnson, Colonel Sir William, ii. 46, 154; iii. 211, 212, 287.

Johnson, iii. 257, 258.

Johnson, Governor, iii. 275.

Jones, Neville, i. 280, 282, 363, 367, 368.

Jones, Mr., ii. 272.

Joseph, Archduke, of Austria, i. 8, 204, 240, 244; ii. 394.

Kaunitz, Count, i. 99; ii. 234.

Keene, Sir Benjamin, i. 191, 398; ii. 33, 77, 78.

Keith, i. 339.

Keith, Marshal, i. 204; ii. 242; iii. 148.

Kendal, Duchess of, i. 53, 220, 223; iii. 308, 314, 315.

Kent, Henry, Duke of, i. 66, 115.

Keppel, Hon. Augustus, ii. 290, 317, 318, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331,

333, 334, 337, 339, 340, 342, 346, 349, 364, 365, 367;

iii. 169, 232.

Kildare, Earl of, i. 75, 354, 355, 364; ii. 25, 26, 40, 183, 184,

316; iii. 68, 69, 71, 72, 92, 95, 96.

Killala, Bishop of, iii. 241.

Kilmansegge, Count, ii. 248.

King, Dr., ii. 374.

Kingsley, General, iii. 191.

Kingston, Duke of, i. 275.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, i. 70.

Knight, Mrs., i. 46.

Kniphausen, iii. 110, 127, 236.

Knollys, Admiral, iii. 259.

Knowles, Admiral, i. 100; ii. 152; iii. 50, 51, 77.

Konigsmark, iii. 313.

Lally, General, iii. 217, 289.

Lambert, Mr., i. 367.

Lamont, Dr., i. 49, 85.

Lanti, Cardinal, iii. 131, 132.

Lauder, iii. 250.

Laudohn, General, iii. 201, 202, 290, 291, 293, 294, 296.

Laurence, Dr. Thomas, i. 7.

Lechmere, Lord, ii. 108.

Lee, Sir George, D. C. L., i. 8, 31, 77, 90, 91, 124, 143, 213, 214,

216, 223, 297, 403; ii. 39, 53, 118, 144, 205, 390; iii. 2,

22, 28, 157.

Lee, Chief Justice, i. 115, 378, 391.

Leeds, Duke of, iii. 27.

Legge, Mr., i. 190, 192, 243, 258, 381, 387, 391, 392, 404, 408;

ii. 37, 39, 41, 47, 48, 50, 54, 62, 85, 118, 127, 144, 146,

155, 177, 179, 180, 181, 205, 206, 207, 257, 265, 268, 270,

273, 274, 284, 301, 302, 340, 375, 379; iii. 1, 5, 15, 31,

59, 111, 112, 118, 176, 177, 179, 182, 183, 184, 237.

Legge, Judge, iii. 118.

Legonier, General Sir John, i. 103, 292, 396; ii. 139, 140, 284;

iii. 46, 52, 81, 91, 108, 155, 190, 212.

Lehwald, General, iii. 57.

Leicester, Thomas, Earl of, i. 208.

Leigh, Dr., i. 71.

Leveson, Mr., i. 193, 226.

Levi, a Jew, i. 330.

Levi, M. de, iii. 284, 285.

Lewis, Mr., i. 330.

Lewis, Prince, of Brunswick, iii. 236.

Lewisham, Lord, iii. 184.

Ligonier, Colonel, iii. 190, 194, 196.

Limerick, James Hamilton, Visc., i. 25, 123, 124, 142.

Linard, Count, ii. 407.

Lincoln, Henry Clinton, Earl of, i. 78, 84, 85, 192, 260, 283; ii. 11,

272, 390, 392; iii. 6, 21, 27, 111.

Linzendorffe, iii. 97.

Litchfield, Earl of, i. 116, 188, 275; iii. 166.

Lobkowitz, Prince, i. 432.

Lochiel, i. 353.

Locke, Mr., ii. 180.

London, Dr. Sherlock, Bishop of, i. 122, 148, 361, 362.

Lonsdale, Henry, Viscount, i. 20.

Lothian, Lord, ii. 142, 143.

Loudun, Lord, ii. 157; iii. 40, 88, 89, 269.

Louis, Monsieur, i. 177.

Louis XV., i. 216, 335; ii. 280; iii. 139, 224.

Loyd, Sir Richard, i. 108, 152, 344, 364, 391.

Lovat, Lord, i. 257, 265.

Lowendahl, Marshal, iii. 43.

Lowther, Sir James, iii. 124.

Lucchesi, iii. 14.

Luynes, Cardinal de, iii. 132.

Lynar, Count, iii. 58.

Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, i. 201, 202.

Lyttelton, Col. Sir Richard, i. 10, 27, 28, 38; ii. 81, 83, 84, 85,

163, 274, 307, 329, 342, 367.

Lyttelton, Sir George, afterwards Lord Lyttleton, i. 11, 13, 18, 48,

73, 79, 85, 134, 201, 233, 382, 387, 409, 414, 416, 435, 438,

439; ii. 3, 52, 63, 102, 106, 126, 144, 146, 153, 176, 177,

181, 191, 192, 195, 196, 197, 261, 272, 307, 360; iii. 105,

111, 119, 120, 259.

Lyttelton, William, i. 213.

Lyttelton, Governor, ii. 33, 171.

M’Cleod, Mr., i. 60.

Machault, M., ii. 215.

Macklyn, the player, iii. 250.

Macclesfield, Lord, i. 51, 275.

Madox, Dr., Bishop of Worcester, i. 120, 331, 332; iii. 215.

Mailly, Madame de, i. 335.

Malagrida, iii. 145.

Malone, Mr., i. 281, 282; ii. 10, 25, 183; iii. 68, 69, 71, 72, 92,

94, 241, 245.

Maillebois, M., iii. 127.

Mallet, Mr., i. 46.

Manchester, Duchess of, i. 206; ii. 287.

Mansfield, Lord, ii. 351, 352, 353, 358, 359, 361, 363, 364, 365;

iii. 11, 29, 30, 79, 80, 85, 86, 87, 98, 102, 103, 116, 214.

Manteuffel, General, iii. 138.

Marchmont, Earl of, i. 19, 51, 293; ii. 48, 104, 366; iii. 105, 106.

Marlborough, John Churchill, first Duke of, i. 94; ii. 139, 303;

iii. 238.

Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, i. 92.

Marlborough, Chas. Spencer, Duke of, i. 10, 69, 81, 199, 328, 406,

419; ii. 2, 47, 48, 139, 248, 261, 416, 301, 303; iii. 76,

77, 108, 124, 125, 126, 128, 147, 150, 196.

Martin, Mr., i. 8, 25, 48, 136, 364; ii. 50, 144, 274, 340.

Martyn, Mr., i. 216.

Mary, Princess, i. 288, 405.

Mary, Princess, of Hesse, iii. 305.

Masham, Mr., ii. 258.

Mason, Rev. Wm., iii. 82.

Matthews, Admiral, ii. 370.

Maynard, Lord, i. 116, 275.

Mazzoni, M., ii. 215.

Mechell, M., ii. 151.

Mecklenburg, Princess Anne of, ii. 279.

Meredith, Sir William, iii. 257.

Methuen, Sir Paul, i. 87, 164, 330.

Michell, Monsieur, i. 295.

Middlesex, Earl of, i. 96, 216, 442.

Middlesex, Jane, Countess of, i. 47, 76, 432; ii. 205.

Middleton, Mr., Sheriff of Denbigh, i. 28.

Middleton, Dr. Conyers, i. 147, 224.

Milton, Lord, i. 266; iii. 265.

Mirepoix, Duke de, i. 203, 423; ii. 28.

Mitchell, Mr., i. 95, 254; iii. 111.

Modena, Duchess of, ii. 210.

Molesworth, Sir John, i. 95.

Molesworth, Lord, iii. 81.

Monk, General, iii. 286.

Monckton, Colonel, ii. 29.

Monckton, General, iii. 221, 222.

Moncrief, Mr., i. 68.

Monroe, Sir Harry, i. 271.

Monson, Mr., ii. 258.

Monson, General, iii. 289.

Montagu, Duke of, ii. 91, 97, 303.

Montagu, Sir Edward, ii. 287.

Montcalm, General, iii. 218, 220, 284.

Moody, a player, iii. 251.

Moore, Captain John, ii. 290, 318, 327, 340, 344, 347, 361, 364, 365;

iii. 169, 170.

Mordaunt, Sir John, i. 31, 110, 257, 258; ii. 3, 14; iii. 45, 46, 49,

51, 54, 55, 56, 74, 75, 77, 78, 79, 91, 154, 271.

Morton, Mr., i. 144, 254.

Morton, Lord, ii. 105, 285, 359.

Moyenska, Countess, ii. 405, 410.

Moyston, General, iii. 3, 155, 168, 170.

Moyston, Sir Roger, iii. 170.

Munchausen, Baron, iii. 60, 63, 64, 156, 306, 307.

Murphy, Arthur, ii. 276.

Murphy, Miss, i. 334.

Murray, Lord John, i. 44.

Murray, General, iii. 283, 284, 5, 6.

Murray, Alexander, i. 17, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 48, 50,

57, 84, 85, 114, 115, 201, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 219, 430.

Murray, Lord Chief Justice, afterwards Earl of Mansfield, i. 48, 123,

130, 142, 143, 150, 151, 165, 243, 251, 254, 255, 284, 287,

290, 297, 303, 305, 308, 309, 315, 318, 322, 342, 345, 351,

369, 379, 380, 387, 390, 391, 404, 408, 418; ii. 5, 6, 7, 8,

13, 15, 52, 60, 62, 74, 85, 107, 111, 114, 115, 134, 135, 143,

148, 149, 161, 178, 182, 198, 220, 221, 227, 249, 260, 273;

iii. 6, 33, 114. Vide _Mansfield_.

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of, i. 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 21, 47,

61, 62, 68, 70, 81, 85, 86, 90, 99, 114, 116, 119, 120, 156,

159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 170, 171, 179, 181, 182, 183,

184, 189, 192, 193, 198, 199, 213, 236, 239, 246, 247, 249,

251, 256, 274, 278, 284, 295, 297, 302, 314, 327, 329, 344,

350, 352, 359, 373, 379, 381, 383, 384, 385, 388, 390, 396,

398, 400, 401, 406, 407, 412, 415, 417, 420, 448; ii. 10, 11,

14, 19, 22, 24, 25, 35, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 62,

63, 92, 93, 105, 107, 123, 139, 140, 141, 143, 151, 154, 176,

182, 187, 193, 201, 206, 213, 218, 221, 223, 227, 228, 230,

249, 250, 251, 253, 254, 257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 265, 266,

267, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275, 300, 305, 307, 343, 353, 354,

374, 377, 380, 385, 386, 387, 389, 390; iii. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14,

15, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 38, 62,

95, 100, 105, 106, 108, 111, 113, 114, 116, 140, 141, 150,

153, 155, 156, 160, 162, 174, 177, 181, 183, 215, 222, 236,

250, 254, 269, 279, 305, 307.

Newcastle, Duchess of, ii. 371.

Newdigate, Sir Roger, i. 125, 254, 365.

Ninervois, Duc de, ii. 152.

Noel, Judge, iii. 118, 119.

Norris, Rear-Admiral, ii. 290, 327, 340, 344, 347, 362, 363, 367.

North, Lord, i. 77, 86, 171, 187; iii. 184, 230.

Northampton, Earl of, ii. 272.

Northey, Mr., i. 213, 243, 254, 257, 260, 363; ii. 144, 145, 191.

Northumberland, Earl of, i. 8, 256, 330; ii. 202, 274; iii. 27.

Nugent, Robert, i. 12, 20, 31, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 54, 88, 108, 123,

134, 147, 197, 243, 254, 340, 341, 345, 355, 364, 412, 465;

ii. 9, 11, 17, 36, 52, 81, 92, 93, 128, 144, 193, 252, 261,

304, 336, 338, 346; iii. 11, 16, 238, 280.

Nugent, Mrs., i. 46.

O’Brien, Mr., ii. 141, 272.

O’Donnel, Count, iii. 297.

Ofarel, Brigadier, i. 106, 108, 116.

Oglethorpe, General, i. 8, 113, 123, 139, 218.

Oldfield, Mrs., i. 24.

Onslow, Lord, i. 260.

Onslow, Mr. Speaker, i. 21, 28, 29, 31, 50, 126, 128, 129, 130, 132,

216, 280, 282, 309, 342, 349, 390; ii. 3, 6, 15, 16, 61, 102,

126, 154, 159, 162, 175, 273, 312, 325, 328, 334, 350; iii. 41,

103, 109, 265, 281, 306, 307.

Onslow, General, iii. 257, 269.

Orange, Prince of, i. 206, 260; ii. 161.

Orange, Princess of, i. 206, 207; ii. 156; iii. 140, 127, 168.

Orange, Princess Caroline of, iii. 168.

Orford, Robert Walpole, Earl of, i. 84, 171, 400, 402.

Orford, George, Earl of, iii. 185.

Orleans, Duke of, i. 77.

Orme, Captain, ii. 31.

Ormond, Duke of, i. 52.

Osborn, Sir Danvers, i. 397, 422; ii. 173.

Osborn, Mrs., ii. 287, 326.

Osborn, Admiral, iii. 151.

Oswald, Mr., i. 59, 226, 257, 421; ii. 144, 146; iii. 183, 239.

Oxenden, Sir George, i. 30.

Oxford, Earl of, i. 47, 84, 98, 116, 119, 160, 275, 276, 385.

Oxford, Bishop of; see _Secker_.

Palisser, Sir Hugh, iii. 169.

Palmer, Deputy Serjeant at Arms, i. 85.

Panmure, Lord, ii. 216.

Paris, Archbishop of, i. 217.

Paul, Dr., i. 297.

Pavonarius, i. 71.

Peachy, Mr., i. 94.

Pelham, Henry, i. 3, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 37,

45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62, 63, 67, 69, 71, 79,

81, 84, 85, 95, 104, 105, 106, 111, 115, 118, 119, 122, 124,

128, 132, 133, 136, 153, 156, 157, 166, 167, 169, 170, 173,

174, 175, 179, 180, 183, 184, 191, 193, 194, 197, 202, 209,

210, 213, 215, 216, 218, 219, 226, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233,

234, 235, 236, 239, 241, 242, 243, 246, 252, 254, 255, 257,

263, 275, 294, 303, 304, 307, 315, 342, 344, 346, 350, 351,

355, 364, 366, 369, 378, 379, 381, 388, 392, 407; ii. 8, 37,

69, 150, 195, 213, 252.

Pelham, T., ii. 272.

Pelham, Lady Catherine, iii. 21.

Pembroke, Lord, ii. 258.

Pendergrass, Sir Thomas, iii. 242.

Penlez, Bosavern, i. 13.

Perry, Mr., iii. 70, 245.

Philipps, Sir John, i. 114, 402; ii. 19, 329; iii. 88, 109, 150, 179,

233, 234, 238, 279.

Piccolomini, General, ii. 243.

Pinfold, Colonel, i. 68.

Pitt, William, afterwards Earl of Chatham, i. 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 17,

18, 27, 30, 42, 47, 53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 70, 75,

76, 79, 85, 92, 94, 95, 109, 110, 111, 130, 135, 137, 138,

152, 153, 165, 170, 171, 191, 203, 226, 231, 233, 239, 240,

241, 364, 366, 379, 380, 387, 392, 407, 409, 410, 412, 414,

415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 421, 440; ii. 9, 12, 17, 35, 37, 38,

39, 40, 41, 47, 55, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 70, 73, 75, 79, 84,

86, 90, 91, 92, 93, 97, 98, 102, 107, 112, 117, 125, 132,

135, 142, 143, 144, 148, 149, 153, 154, 157, 158, 159, 160,

161, 162, 168, 169, 170, 174, 179, 185, 187, 190, 191, 193,

196, 197, 200, 205, 224, 250, 251, 253, 254, 257, 259, 260,

261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273,

274, 275, 276, 283, 284, 300, 301, 302, 306, 307, 310, 312,

313, 314, 316, 322, 325, 329, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336,

338, 341, 342, 343, 348, 349, 350, 353, 368, 372, 376, 377,

378; iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22,

23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 42, 44, 46, 49, 60, 70,

74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 84, 85, 87, 88, 91, 95, 100, 103, 105,

114, 123, 125, 126, 136, 140, 141, 149, 150, 154, 155, 156,

160, 168, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 184,

191, 193, 214, 222, 224, 227, 228, 229, 230, 235, 236, 238,

239, 243, 245, 250, 254, 261, 266, 279, 280, 281, 287.

Pitt, Thomas, i. 27, 63, 92, 124, 139, 142, 145.

Pitt, John, ii. 274.

Pococke, Admiral Sir George, iii. 89, 217, 289.

Poland, Augustus, King of, i. 204, 244, 245; ii. 241, 394, 395, 406,

410, 411, 412.

Poland, Queen of, iii. 81.

Pombal, Marquis of, iii. 143.

Pomfret, Lord, ii. 105.

Pompadour, Madame de, i. 217, 236; ii. 176, 211; iii. 37, 127, 133,

157, 217, 245.

Ponsonby, Mr. Speaker, i. 282; ii. 25, 183, 184; iii. 68, 69, 73, 92,

96, 240.

Ponsonby, Lady Eliz., ii. 25.

Pope, Mr., i. 150, 224; iii. 81.

Porteous, Captain, i. 43, 59.

Portugal, King of, iii. 141.

Potter, Thomas, i. 8, 12, 31, 66, 69, 70, 92, 243, 403; ii. 11, 54,

106, 144, 274, 340, 341; iii. 15, 32, 75, 79, 238.

Poulet, Earl, i. 65; ii. 18, 20, 21.

Pratt, Mr. Attorney-General, iii. 32, 102, 103, 115, 118, 119.

Pretender, The, i. 52, 170, 172, 225, 285, 286, 304, 306, 353;

ii. 108.

Prevot, M., ii. 156, 171.

Prideaux, General, iii. 212.

Prior, Mr., i. 96.

Probyn, Mr., i. 8.

Proctor, Sir W. B., i. 208.

Prowse, Mr., i. 124, 139, 213, 254, 257, 363; ii. 19.

Prussia, Frederick III., King of, i. 170, 191, 204, 205, 215, 241,

294, 295, 406; ii. 35, 50, 127, 132, 151, 219, 232, 235, 238,

240, 241, 242, 243, 264, 313, 394, 403; iii. 12, 14, 17, 18,

35, 36, 37, 57, 59, 75, 79, 80, 90, 110, 121, 122, 123, 127,

138, 147, 148, 149, 174, 184, 189, 200, 216, 224, 236, 248,

289, 290, 291, 292, 295, 296; i. 448, et seq.

Prussia, Queen of, i. 175; iii. 201, 203.

Prussia, Queen Dowager of, iii. 68.

Pulteney, Lord, ii. 78, 79, 119, 120; iii. 233.

Pulteney, General, iii. 270.

Ralph, James, i. 345, 346.

Ramsay, Allan, iii. 260.

Randan, Duc de, iii. 104.

Rantzau, Count, iii. 11.

Ravensworth, Lord, i. 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 309, 310, 312,

316, 318, 321, 324, 326, 332; ii. 104, 155.

Raymond, Lord, ii. 105.

Rezzonico, Cardinal, iii. 133.

Rich, Sir Robert, iii. 81.

Richelieu, Marshal, le Duc de, ii. 189, 210, 225, 311; iii. 37, 58,

104.

Richmond, Duke of, i. 3; ii. 317; iii. 191, 268, 280.

Rider, Sir Dudley, Attorney-General, i. 10, 107, 123, 130, 143, 146,

147, 257, 297, 342, 391; ii. 202, 223.

Rigby, Mr., ii. 45, 47, 140, 187, 255, 266, 315, 332; iii. 67, 68,

70, 94, 95, 240, 242, 243, 245, 301.

Robinson, Sir Thomas, i. 142, 213, 218, 243, 388, 409, 417, 420;

ii. 18, 44, 45, 53, 93, 94, 143, 266, 267, 392; iii. 3, 22.

Robyns, Mr., i. 65.

Rochford, Earl of, ii. 18.

Rochefoucault, Cardinal de la, ii. 176.

Rockingham, Marquis of, i. 272, 331; ii. 202; iii. 27, 275.

Rodney, Admiral, iii. 186.

Romney, Lord, i. 116.

Roolt, Cardinal, iii. 132.

Rothes, Lord, ii. 20.

Rotosha, Count, ii. 410.

Rouillé, Monsieur, ii. 150.

Rowley, Admiral, i. 194; iii. 2.

Rowley, Mr., iii. 241.

Royston, Lord, iii. 7, 21.

Rushout, Sir John, i. 118, 145, 178; iii. 266.

Russell, Sir William, i. 177.

Russia, Elizabeth, Czarina of, ii. 120, 232, 236, 237, 239, 279, 394;

iii. 13, 122, 289.

Russia, John, Czar of, ii. 232, 237.

Rutland, Duke of, ii. 2.

Sacheverell, Dr., i. 233.

Sackville, Lord George, i. 30, 31, 41, 107, 108, 279, 282, 295, 368,

390, 421; ii. 6, 94, 102, 130, 144, 147, 158, 174, 184, 186,

190, 248, 284, 301, 302, 313, 314, 315, 316, 330, 331, 340,

379; iii. 10, 19, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29, 31, 45, 68, 69, 76, 81,

88, 89, 92, 107, 108, 109, 124, 147, 165, 191, 192, 194, 195,

198, 212, 213, 214, 237, 245, 251, 252, 255, 256, 261, 265,

266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 287.

Sackville, Lord John, iii. 254.

Sackville, Lady Caroline, iii. 265.

Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, i. 2, 3, 7, 69, 78, 81, 99, 116, 122,

161, 165, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192, 193, 195, 199, 239,

250, 251, 254, 263, 275, 407, 408; ii. 10, 11, 13, 14, 47,

141, 277, 355, 358; iii. 111.

Sandys, Samuel, i. 67, 118, 178; iii. 3.

Sandys, Lord, i. 332, 347; ii. 141, 201, 274; iii. 33.

Sardinia, King of, ii. 200; iii. 132.

Sassy, M., ii. 176.

Saunders, Captain, i. 345.

Saunders, Admiral, ii. 215; iii. 230, 231, 238.

Saxe, the Chevalier de, ii. 410.

Saxe, Marshal, i. 103; ii. 46.

Saxe-Gotha, Duke of, i. 288.

Saxony, Augustus, King of, ii. 235, 241, 242, 243; iii. 248.

Scarborough, Earl of, i. 191.

Schutz, Mr., i. 94.

Schomberg, Duke, i. 198; ii. 303.

Schwerin, Marshal, iii. 14.

Scott, Mr., i. 80, 92, 283, 290; ii. 258, 259; iii. 100.

Secker, Thomas, Bishop of Oxford, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury,

i. 64, 347, 362; iii. 107, 180.

Selwyn, George, ii. 44, 141, 184.

Selwyn, John, i. 94, 171, 226.

Serras, iii. 206.

Seymour, Lady Elizabeth, i. 8.

Sheridan, i. 389.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, i. 50, 116.

Shannon, Viscount, i. 76; iii. 96.

Sharpe, Mr., Governor of Virginia, i. 401.

Shaw, Dr., i. 185.

Shebbear, Dr., iii. 152, 153, 154.

Shelburne, Lord, iii. 227.

Shelley, Mr., ii. 272.

Shelvocke, Mr., i. 202.

Simcoe, Captain John, ii. 290, 364.

Sloper, Mr., ii. 44.

Sloper, Colonel, iii. 196, 271, 272.

Smith, Vice-Admiral, ii. 290, 307, 329, 330, 358, 359, 360, 367, 372.

Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel, ii. 292.

Smith, John, iii. 274.

Smithson, Sir Hugh, i. 8.

Smollett, Dr., iii. 259, 261.

Smyth, Baron, ii. 273; iii. 119.

Sobieski, Princess, i. 286.

Soissons, Fitz-James, Bishop of, i. 335.

Soltikoff, General, iii. 202.

Somerset, Algernon, Duke of, i. 8, 80, 255.

Soubise, Prince de, iii. 128.

Southwell, Mr., i. 145.

Spain, Ferdinand, King of, iii. 202.

Spain, Elizabeth, Queen Dowager of, iii. 204, 205.

Spain, Barbara, Queen of, iii. 205.

Spain, Charles III., King of, iii. 205, 210.

Spence, Mr., i. 96.

Spenser, Mr., i. 92.

St. Simon, Marquis, ii. 108.

Stair, Lord, i. 221, 276.

Stamford, Lord, ii. 363.

Stanley, Mr., ii. 81, 300.

Stanhope, Sir William, i. 75.

Stanhope, Earl, i. 116, 232; ii. 201; iii. 55.

Stanhope, George, iii. 55.

Stephens, Mr., ii. 416.

Stevens, Mr., i. 65.

Stewart, Colonel, ii. 284.

Stewart, Sir Simeon, iii. 237.

St. John, Lady, i. 223.

Stone, Andrew, i. 48, 49, 86, 116, 280, 283, 289, 290, 303, 304, 305,

306, 308, 310, 315, 318, 322, 325, 327, 369, 380, 418; ii. 10,

43, 45, 258, 260, 392.

Stone, Dr. George, Primate of Ireland, i. 279, 354, 390, 391; ii. 10,

19, 23, 24, 25, 284; iii. 14, 68, 71, 72, 73, 91, 92, 94, 95,

96.

Stormont, Viscount, i. 150, 286; ii. 227.

Strange, Sir John, i. 10.

Strange, Lord, i. 108, 111, 112, 113, 125, 130, 139, 143, 152, 153,

219, 243; ii. 144, 145, 154, 162, 178, 312, 320, 326, 330,

334, 341; iii. 279, 281.

Strange, Mr., iii. 260.

Strawbridge, Mrs., i. 439, 440.

Sturt, Mr., i. 167.

Suffolk, Henrietta, Countess of, i. 45, 176, 177, 223, 277, 445, 447.

Sulkowsky, M., ii. 404.

Sunderland, Lord, i. 77, 164, 232.

Sundon, Lord, i. 21, 36, 439.

Sussex, Lord, i. 94.

Sutton, Lord Robert, i. 40; iii. 41.

Sydenham, Mr., i. 50, 54, 124, 141, 209, 211, 218, 219, 243, 254, 257.

Talbot, Judge, ii. 140.

Talbot, William, Lord, i. 116, 120, 121, 324; ii. 176, 359.

Talbot, Charles, Lord Chancellor, i. 121, 159, 164.

Talbot, Bishop of Durham, i. 65.

Tavistock, Lord, iii. 95, 224, 243, 244.

Tavora, Marchioness of, iii. 144.

Taylor, Dr., i. 71.

Temple, Earl, i. 360, 361, 362, 363, 366, 387, 414; ii. 48, 62, 63,

103, 104, 105, 175, 176, 201, 254, 257, 261, 265, 267, 274,

275, 307, 310, 311, 318, 327, 343, 353, 355, 357, 359, 365,

372, 378, 379; iii. 11, 15, 16, 31, 111, 116, 119, 120, 121,

183, 228, 243, 280.

Temple, Lady Hesther, ii. 63.

Tennison, iii. 34.

Tessin, Count, i. 229.

Thanet, Earl of, i. 116.

Thierri, M., iii. 51, 78, 79.

Thomas, Bishop, i. 292; ii. 374.

Thomond, Lord, iii. 32.

Thompson, Dr., i. 174.

Thompson, Sir William, ii. 108.

Thornbagh, Mr., ii. 330.

Thornton, Mr., i. 213, 218.

Thurot, M., iii. 187, 224, 244, 261, 262, 264-5, 270.

Torrington, Lord, ii. 216, 309.

Townshend, Charles, Viscount, i. 39, 52, 95, 116, 122, 163, 164, 220,

232, 332; ii. 109, 132, 224.

Townshend, Lady Elizabeth, ii. 224.

Townshend, Lady Ethelreda, i. 39, 174; iii. 186.

Townshend, George, Lord, iii. 186.

Townshend, George, i. 10, 27, 39, 40, 56, 58, 64, 95, 144; ii. 19, 54,

64, 65, 67, 97, 99, 124, 131, 154, 178, 228, 245, 246, 303,

305, 306, 329, 379, 380; iii. 4, 7, 9, 26, 34, 42, 124, 171,

172, 218, 222, 227, 230, 234, 281.

Townshend, Charles, i. 89, 243, 340, 341, 346, 348, 421; ii. 5, 6, 47,

62, 64, 80, 94, 96, 121, 132, 139, 144, 147, 154, 162, 163,

170, 172, 174, 175, 176, 218, 224, 258, 264, 274, 301, 302,

348, 349, 384; iii. 2, 4, 19, 34, 183, 227.

Townshend, Admiral, ii. 246, 373.

Townshend, Thomas, iii. 280.

Tracy, Mr., i. 254.

Trefusis. Samuel, Esq., i. 34.

Trentham, Lord, i. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 27, 37, 95, 192, 194, 260.

Trevor, Dr., Bishop of Durham, iii. 166.

Turner, Sir Edward, ii. 67.

Tweedale, Lord, i. 274, 276; iii. 269.

Tyrawley, Lord, i. 256; ii. 190, 216; iii. 78, 108, 109, 252.

Tyrconnel, Lord, i. 204.

Tyrrel, Sir John, i. 26, 27.

Upton, Mr., iii. 70.

Vandeput, Sir George, i. 14, 17, 32, 200, 293.

Vane, Harry, i. 117, 304, 305, 309, 313, 314, 315, 327.

Vaudreuil, M. de, iii. 222, 284, 285, 288.

Vernon, Admiral, i. 30, 100, 102, 218, 364; ii. 61.

Villiers, Mr., i. 450; ii. 202; iii. 111.

Vintimille, Madame de, i. 335.

Voltaire, M., i. 451; ii. 311; iii. 207, 249.

Vyner, Mr., i. 8, 30, 63, 124, 145, 211, 218, 243, 257; ii. 110, 124,

178; iii. 184.

Wager, Sir Charles, i. 21, 36.

Waldegrave, James, Earl of, i. 91, 291, 328, 417, 418, 420; ii. 41,

207, 222, 258, 259; iii. 16, 26, 28, 30, 34, 307.

Waldegrave, Colonel, i. 188.

Waldegrave, General, iii. 76, 77, 170, 171, 191, 198, 214.

Waldegrave, Lady Elizabeth, i. 242; iii. 68, 69.

Waldo, General, ii. 170.

Wales, H. R. H. Frederick, Prince of, i. 12, 39, 47, 48, 68, 71, 72,

73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 88, 89, 96, 201, 223, 226, 227,

432, 434, 438; ii. 205.

Wales, H. R. H. the Princess Dowager of, i. 69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77,

78, 80, 83, 86, 87, 89, 96, 99, 104, 114, 153, 182, 201, 434,

284, 288, 289, 379, 380, 418, 421, 433, 434; ii. 36, 38, 39,

40, 53, 204, 205, 206, 223, 257, 258, 276, 374, 389; iii. 6,

28, 38, 59, 121, 137, 266, 269, 274, 304.

Wall, General, i. 204, 398; ii. 1.

Walmoden, Baron of, i. 177.

Walpole, Sir Robert, i. 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 21, 23, 32, 33, 36, 49, 52,

60, 67, 70, 74, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 95, 105, 118, 119,

129, 140, 142, 159, 160, 163, 167, 169, 170, 173, 174, 179,

181, 182, 184, 191, 196, 205, 220, 221, 222, 225, 226, 228,

229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 276, 345, 350, 338,

398, 401; ii. 82, 83, 109, 131, 145, 213, 272; iii. 85, 86,

106.

Walpole, Horace, senior, i. 8, 11, 45, 70, 139, 140, 141, 153, 196,

220, 236, 241, 242, 254, 342, 364, 437; ii. 22, 37, 49, 54,

107, 169, 175, 202.

Walpole, Horace, junior, i. 8, 196, 298, 384, 414, 415; ii. 163, 254,

255, 268, 327; iii. 28, 29, 159, 160.

Walpole, Mary, i. 173, 191.

Walsingham, Melusina Schulemburgh, Countess of, i. 53.

Walsingham, Lady, iii. 308.

Walter, Mr., ii. 409.

Warburton, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, iii. 239.

Ward, Lord, i. 116, 275.

Warren, Sir Peter, i. 243, 293.

Warton, Dr. Joseph, i. 438.

Washington, Major, i. 399.

Watson, Admiral, iii. 57, 89, 90.

Wedel, General, iii. 200.

Weir, Mr. Hope, i. 60.

Wells, Paul, i. 175.

Wentworth, General, i. 100.

Wentworth, Lord, i. 275.

Werner, General, iii. 296.

Wesley, iii. 98.

West, Admiral, ii. 228, 274, 296, 297, 306.

West, Mr., ii. 272.

Westmoreland, Earl of, i. 10; ii. 99, 160; iii. 87, 166, 167.

Whitehead, Paul, i. 201; iii. 81.

Whitfield, iii. 97, 98, 278.

Wilbraham, Mr., i. 343.

Willes, Lord Chief Justice, i. 70, 89, 169, 172, 176; ii. 273;

iii. 33, 117.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, i. 21, 67, 94, 168, 194, 204, 205,

230, 385, 442, 448; ii. 393, 416; iii. 111.

Williams, Sir William, iii. 230, 233.

Willoughby, Lord, i. 208; ii. 285.

Wilmington, Spencer Compton, Earl of, i. 74, 102, 141, 163, 178, 179.

Wilmot, Dr., i. 71.

Wilmot, Judge, ii. 273; iii. 119.

Winchelsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, i. 47, 173, 191, 255, 260; ii. 186;

iii. 2, 20, 22, 25, 31, 32, 105.

Windham, Sir William, i. 80, 222; iii. 106.

Winnington, Thomas, i. 33, 93, 173, 174, 183, 205, 439; iii. 67.

Winton, Lord, i. 288.

Wintzenrode, General, iii. 270.

Wolfe, General, iii. 50, 55, 56, 75, 91, 134, 171, 172, 217, 218, 219,

227, 229, 285.

Wolfenbuttle, Duke of, iii. 64, 308, 309.

Wyndham, Henry Penruddocke, i. 438, 441.

Wynne, Sir John, ii. 44.

Xavier, Prince of Saxony, ii. 401.

Yarmouth, Amelia Sophia, Countess of, i. 42, 77, 82, 171, 177, 380;

ii. 21, 252, 253, 256, 259; iii. 12, 58, 61, 305, 306, 307.

Yonge, Sir William, i. 22, 23, 30, 31, 32, 34, 50, 54, 106, 112, 141,

143, 153, 243, 254, 257, 342, 364, 369; ii. 141.

York, Cardinal of, i. 285; iii. 131.

Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, i. 115, 116, 120,

121, 128, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 268, 273, 309, 316,

321, 337, 339, 343, 346, 348, 350, 352, 360, 363, 379, 380,

382, 384, 389, 392, 409; ii. 10, 11, 16, 41, 49, 62, 140, 184.

Yorke, Philip, i. 115.

Yorke, Charles, i. 125, 130, 145, 343; iii. 115, 183.

Yorke, Colonel, ii. 150; iii. 110, 111.

Yorke, General, iii. 190, 235, 236.

Young, Rev. Dr., i. 439.

Ysenberg, Prince of, iii. 128.

Zelle, George William, Duke of, i. 92; iii. 309, 314.

Zelle, Eleonora D’Esmurs, Duchess of, i. 92; iii. 314.

Zelle, Sophia Dorothea, Princess of, i. 92.

INDEX OF MATTERS.

Act of Grace, curious reasoning on, i. 106.

Addresses from counties, numerous, on the loss of Minorca, ii. 230.

Admiralty. First appointment of the Earl of Sandwich, i. 2;

diminished number of seamen voted, 13, 17;

Lord Anson proposes a severe naval code, but fails, 38;

refusal to send ships to Nova Scotia, avoiding offence to France,

62;

dismissal of Lord Sandwich, and the re-appointment of Lord Anson,

190, 192;

proposition of hard labour in the dock-yards, to commute

transportation, 255;

war with France, ii. 1;

careful selection of officers by Lord Anson, 33;

debates on prize bill, 78;

defended in the Commons by George Granville, 195;

circumstances connected with Byng’s sentence, 306;

affair of the navy bill, iii. 105.

Albemarle, Lord, his diplomatic character, and anecdotes of, i. 82;

death and political character, 422.

Amelia, Princess, her conduct towards Frederick Prince of Wales,

i. 73;

political character and anecdotes, 182;

her law-suit as ranger of Richmond Park, 401, 402;

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

America, North, state of, and politics respecting, previous to the

war of 1756, i. 394, et seq.;

commencement of the war and first services of General (then major)

Washington, 399, et seq.;

first naval operations of the war, ii. 27;

military operations commence in Nova Scotia, 30;

Braddock’s unfortunate expedition, 30, et seq.;

Sir William Johnson’s victory in Canada, 46;

grant of money to colonies and to individuals, 153, 154;

review of military affairs in the House of Commons, 157, 158;

debates on the raising of Swiss regiments for service there,

_ibid._, 170, et seq.;

affairs in 1757, iii. 39;

campaign of 1758, 91, 134;

attack on Quebec, and invasion of Canada, 171, 217, et seq.;

the French driven thence, 283, 289.

Amherst, General, biographical notice of, iii. 285, et seq., _notes_;

takes command in America, 91;

takes Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 211;

proceeds towards Quebec to assist Wolfe, 212;

takes Montreal, 288.

Andrews, Dr., parliamentary anecdote of, in Ireland, i. 367.

Anecdotes--

of Lord Sandwich, i. 3;

of Lord Harrington, 4;

of French players, 13;

of Lord Nugent, 20;

of Crowle, the well-known punster, 21;

of Sir William Yonge, 23;

of Sir Robert Walpole, 23;

of Speaker Onslow and Lord Coke, 28;

of Mr. Murray, before the House on the Westminster petition, 29;

of Sir John Cotton, 33;

of Lord Gower and Sir John Cotton, 34;

of Lord Egmont, 35;

of Colonel Lyttelton and family, 39;

of Lady Townshend, _ibid._;

of Colonel Conway, 41;

of Sir H. Erskine, _ibid._;

of Lord Granville in the council, 44;

of Lord Bute, 47;

of Lord Mansfield, 49;

of Lord Chesterfield, 51;

of Queen Caroline and Lady Suffolk, 52;

of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, 53;

of Commissioner Oswald, 59, 60;

of Mr. Fox’s candour in parliament, 62;

of George II. and his ministers, _ibid._;

of Archbishop Secker, 65;

of Sir Godfrey Kneller, 70;

of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 71, 73, 74, 77;

of Lord Doneraile, 75;

of Lady Archibald Hamilton, _ibid._;

of Lady Middlesex, 76;

of Sir William Stanhope, 75;

of the Princess of Wales, 76;

of Doddington, 77, 87, 88;

of George II., 78;

of the Duke of Cumberland, 79;

of Dr. Ayscough, 79;

of Lord Albemarle, 82;

of Archbishop Blackburne, 87;

of Lord Chief Justice Willes, 89;

of Sir George Lee, 90;

of Pitt, 92;

of Fox, 93, 94;

of Old John Selwyn, 95;

of Lord Berkeley and the Duke of Dorset, 98;

of Admiral Vernon, 100, 101;

military one of the French and Duke of Cumberland, 103;

of the Duke and Prince George, 105, 106;

of Pulteney, Earl of Bath, 118;

of Sir Francis Dashwood, 123;

political, of the Regency Bill, 129, et seq.;

of George II., and the Regency Bill, 157, 158;

of the first Lord Hardwick, 159;

of the Duke of Newcastle, 163;

of Pelham, 167;

of Lord Granville, 168;

of the dismissed cabinet in 1745, 170;

amatory and avaricious one of George II., 176;

of Lady Suffolk, 177;

of Lady Yarmouth, _ibid._;

of Cheselden, the surgeon, _ibid._;

of Lord Chesterfield, 177;

of Queen Caroline, 179, 182;

of the Duke of Grafton, 182;

of Mr. Legge, 191;

of the Duke of Devonshire, 195;

of Paul Whitehead, 201;

of the Princess of Orange, 206, 207;

of the King and Mr. Fox, 212;

of Lord Stair and Queen Caroline, 221;

of Pope and Lord Bolingbroke, 224;

political, of the Duchess of Bedford, 242;

parliamentary, of Fox and Pelham, 254;

of Archibald, Duke of Argyle, 276;

of the education of the young princes, 284, 289;

of General Ligonier and the King, 292;

of Lewis XV. and Miss Murphy, 334;

of the marriage Bill, 339;

of Charles Townshend, 340;

parliamentary one, 341;

punning one of Jones, the Irish architect, 364;

of Newcastle’s geographical ignorance, 396;

of General Washington and George II., 400;

of Pitt and Murray, 412, 413;

of the quarrel between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414;

of Sir Thomas Robinson, ii. 44;

of old Horace Walpole and the Speaker, ii. 175;

of Madame Pompadour, 176;

of Doddington, 186;

of Lord Bute and Leicester-house, 205, et seq.;

of Queen Caroline, Princess Amelia, and Richmond Park, 220, 221;

of Charles Townshend respecting the squabbles of party, 224;

of caricatures and libels during Byng’s affair, 228, 229;

of Counts Bruhl and Kaunizt, 234;

of Fox’s rupture with Newcastle, 251, et seq.;

of Damiens’ tortures for stabbing the King of France, 283;

of Admiral Byng on his trial and condemnation, 286, 287;

most extraordinary one, 371;

of Archbishop Gilbert, 374;

of Dr. King, _ib._;

of Lord Temple and the King, 378;

of Harry Conway, iii. 54;

of the Princess Caroline, 82;

of the King and Archbishop Secker, 180;

of Pitt and Lord Shelburne, 227;

of Macklyn, Lord Bute, and Love à la Mode, 250, 251;

of Dr. Smollett, 259.

Anne, Princess Dowager, of Orange, death and politics, iii. 168.

Anson, Lord, proposes several articles of war, but fails, i. 38;

appointed to the Admiralty, in room of Lord Sandwich, 194;

character, 194, 195;

careful selection of officers, and pledge to the king on that

subject, ii. 33;

his feelings in regard to Byng’s execution, 317;

observations on him in regard to Byng’s sentence and execution,

343;

restored to the admiralty under Pitt and Newcastle, in 1757,

iii. 32;

his restoration to the admiralty, highly unpleasing to the city,

84.

Anspach, Margrave of, opposes English politics in Germany, i. 288.

Anstruther, General, parliamentary charges against, i. 42, 56, 64, 68;

further proceedings on his case, and motion of Lord Strange, 95,

106, et seq.