Volume 3 — INDEX OF MATTERS. (continued 2)

Torrington, Lord, exerts himself in the cause of his uncle Byng, ii. 309.

Townshend, Charles, opposes the Marriage Bill, i. 340; attacks Lord Egmont on his absurd conduct respecting the Mutiny Bill, 421; his long speech on the German treaties, in opposition to Newcastle, ii. 121; parliamentary squabble with Fox on the question of foreign troops in America, 173; extraordinary conduct and political shuffling on Byng’s affair, 349; witticism on Fox’s sinecure grant of the pells in Ireland, iii. 4.

Townshend, Colonel George (afterwards brigadier-general), character of, i. 39; attack on General Anstruther, 56; complains to the House against Mr. Fox’s circulars, ii. 64; procures the repeal of all the old militia acts preparatory to a new one, 152; next in command to Wolfe at Quebec, iii. 171; succeeds Wolfe in the command in Canada, but treats his memory unhandsomely, 222.

Townshend, Lord, political anecdotes of, i. 163, 164.

Townshend, Lady, political anecdotes of, i. 39.

Transportation, commutation to hard labour in the dock-yards, proposed as a substitute for, i. 255.

Trentham, Lord, gives offence to his Westminster constituents, i. 13; judicious conduct, 14, 15.

Troops raised by peers to guard against invasion, ii. 202, 203.

Truth necessary for history, and why, i. 237, et seq.

Turner, Sir Edward, his extraordinary disavowal of Mr. Fox, ii. 67.

Tyrawley, Lord, sent to Portugal to settle complaints about smuggling money, i. 256; parliamentary affair with Lord George Sackville, iii. 109.

Tyrrel, Sir John, shameful conduct of, on the Westminster petition, i. 26.

Upton, Mr. (Lord Templetown), party affairs in Ireland, iii. 69, 70.

Vandeput, Sir George, first brought forward in Westminster, by Lord Egmont, i. 14.

Vane, Henry (afterwards Earl of Darlington), his political character, drunk or sober, i. 117.

Vaudreuil, Mons. de, his perfidious conduct in Canada, iii. 223.

Vernon, Admiral, outrageous speech on Murray’s affair, and the Westminster petition, i. 30, 31; anecdotes of, parliamentary and naval, i. 100, 101; biographical notice of, 101, 102.

Viceroyship of Ireland, its lucrative advantages, iii. 93.

Voltaire, character of, as an historian, i. 375; sends to England a letter from the Duc de Richelieu exculpating Byng, ii. 311.

Waldegrave, Earl of, appointed warden of the stannaries, i. 91; appointed governor to the Prince of Wales, 291; character and anecdotes, ib.; speech, 328; entrusted with negotiations for a projected change of ministry, 418; attempts to form a ministry, iii. 26; but is forced to abandon it, 30.

Waldegrave, General, by a well-timed manœuvre, gains the battle of Minden, iii. 198.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, renewed intercourse with the Pitt party, i. 12; conduct of his party on the Westminster petition, 28; party politics, 39, 47; death, and its political consequences, 72, 86; his character, ib., et seq.; his debts, 87; songs by, 432, 433, 434.

Wales, Princess of, character and anecdotes, i. 76; behaviour on death of the Prince, 77; education of her children, 79; kindness of the king, 83; changes in her household, 92; the regency affair, 99, et seq., 139, 146, et seq.; the Princess Matilda, a posthumous child, born, 201; differences in the tutorship of the Prince of Wales, 284; appears in public with the same honours as the late queen, 289; interference in the politics of the day, 418; her projects for governing her son, ii. 36; conduct in regard to his proposed marriage, ib.; interference in politics, 39; opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47; her conduct on the prince attaining majority, 204, 205; anecdotes of Lord Bute, 205; proposed plan of removing the prince, 221; Leicester-house politics and change of ministry, 249, et seq.; total rejection of Fox’s overtures, in 1757, at Leicester-house, iii. 6; further manœuvres, 25, 30, 121.

Wall, General, political anecdote of, i. 398.

Walpole, Horace, moves the address in the Commons in 1751, i. 8; his sarcasms against the Devonshires accounted for, 196; praiseworthy candour, 233, 234, et seq.; the pretended memorial on the education of the Prince of Wales, 298; his part in the breach between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414; and of a union between Pitt and Fox, 415; speech on the Swiss regiments, ii. 163; applied to by Fox on his rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, but declines interference, 254, 255; urges Keppel to apply to be absolved from his oath, 327; extraordinary fact relative to Byng’s affair, 370; advice to Fox, to save him from the precipice of political ruin, iii. 28; observations on, and apologies for, his work, 158; draws his own character, 159.

Walpole, old Horace, political character, with anecdotes, i. 140, et seq.; his remarkable speech on the Saxon treaty, 242; speech and vote different, 254.

Walpole, Lord, his replies to Lord Bolingbroke’s letters and principles, i. 222.

Walpole, Sir Robert, inconsistency of his political opponents at close of the Spanish war, i. 7; witticism on Sir W. Yonge, 23; financial expertness, 32; politic advice to the Duke of Cumberland, 105; his reasons for supporting the Duke of Newcastle, 163; contrasted with Bolingbroke, 225; parallel between him and Pelham, 229, et seq.

War of 1756, as so called, first announced to the House of Commons by order of the King, ii. 18.

Warburton, Dr., promoted to the see of Gloucester, iii. 239.

Washington, General, his first action, whilst a major in British service, in the war of 1756, i. 399; his curious despatch, and the king’s remark, 400.

Watson, Admiral, retakes Calcutta, iii. 57; his successes and death, 89, 90.

Ways and Means, vide Commons.

Weobly, election of Lord Perceval, i. 37.

West, Admiral, his conduct in Byng’s affair, ii. 295, 296, 306.

West Indian Colonies, attempt of Lord Halifax to bring them under the control of the Board of Trade, i. 199; further ministerial negotiations, 220; naval and military operations in 1759, iii. 169, 170.

Westminster petition to the Commons against Lord Trentham, i. 13, 19; spurious patriotism and jacobitism united, and why, 33, 34; attempted opposition to the court, in favour of Sir George Vandeput, fails, 293.

Westmorland, Earl of, his political character, and election to the chancellorship of Oxford, iii. 167.

Whig Interest, alluded to in parliament, in regard to the Duke of Cumberland, in 1751, i. 10; young Whigs gain a parliamentary victory on the Westminster petition, 16; their conduct in support of party, 21; defeat the Tories in bringing Murray on his knees at the bar, 29; in favour of general naturalization, 45; change of politics on that bill, 55; take offence at Pitt, 60; proceedings on a breach of privilege, 95; their feelings on the dismissal of the Bedford party from power, through the Pelham intrigues, 196; political anecdotes of Scottish Whigs, 276; interference in the education of the prince of Wales, 291; affair of the pretended memorial respecting the education of the Prince of Wales, written by Horace Walpole, 298; political difficulties on the death of the premier Pelham, 379; first opposed by the Tories, as a party, in a political point of view distinct from the question of the Stuart succession, ii. 12.

Whitehead, Paul, anecdote and character of, i. 201.

Whitefield, the methodist, iii. 97.

Willes, Lord Chief Justice, character and anecdotes of, i. 89.

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, witticism on Speaker Onslow, i. 21; witticism upon Lord Anson, 194; his foreign diplomacy, 205; persuades Fox to refuse the seals, but is never forgiven by him for it, 385; epigram by, on the Sackville family, 442; biographical notice of, ii. 393, 394, 395; character of the court, politics, and military force of the Elector of Saxony, 396, et seq.

Wills, royal, anecdote of burning, i. 175; iii. 308, 309, 313, vide Appendix to vol. iii.

Wilmington, Lord, his bon-mot on the Duke of Newcastle, i. 163; character and anecdotes, 178.

Wilmot, Judge, his character, and appointment as a commissioner of the great seal, ii. 273.

Winchelsea, Earl of, excellent political character, i. 173; brings forward a bill to commute transportation to working in the dock-yards, i. 255; behaves with true spirit, iii. 32.

Window tax in Scotland, its inefficiency, i. 262.

Wine licence office abolished, ii. 375.

Winnington, Thomas, character and anecdotes, i. 174.

Wolfe, General, first employed in the war, in the expedition to Rochfort, iii. 50; patronized by Pitt, 75; goes to America second in command, 91; expedition to Quebec, 171; difficulties of the siege, 217; takes Quebec, but falls in the moment of victory, 219; monument voted by parliament, 229.

Worcester, Bishop of (Dr. Maddox), speech on the Regency Bill, i. 120.

Words, parliamentary meaning of, whimsically misinterpreted by Henley and Murray, both state lawyers, i. 345.

Yarmouth, Countess of, anecdotes and character, i. 177; prudent refusal to interfere in foreign politics, iii. 12.

Yonge, Sir W., anecdotes and character of, i. 22, 23, 24; proposes that offices on the prince’s establishment shall vacate seats in the House, 116; seconds a motion for repeal of the Bribery Oath, i. 369.

Yorke, Charles, speech on the Regency Bill, i. 125; parliamentary sparring with Fox on the Marriage Bill, 343.

Yorke, Colonel (Lord Dover), resident at the Hague, receives an extraordinary memorial from the French court, ii. 150.

Yorkshire, riots on the Militia Bill, from fears of foreign service, iii. 41.

Yvory, House of, bibliographical anecdote of, i. 37. Note.

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