Oates, Titus, on term "Tory," i. 17.O'Brien, Smith, iv. 179.O'Connell, Daniel:Demands municipal reform for Ireland, iv. 258.Elected for Clare, iv. 71, 78.In favor of ballot, iv. 131.Loyalty, iv. 23, 27.On Universal Suffrage, iv. 85.Oratory, iv. 70.Seconds amendment on Emancipation of Slaves, iv. 197.Sketch of, iv. 53, 69.Speech on Irish Church Revenues, iv. 248, 249.Speeches on Reform Bill, iv. 148, 172.O'Connor, Arthur, iii. 313, 314.Withdraws from Dublin Parliament, iii. 319.October Club, i. 74.Oglethorpe, General, invites John Wesley to Georgia, ii. 134.Ohio, English and French on, ii. 285.Oliver, Alderman, committed to Tower, iii. 135.Oliver, Andrew, collector of stamp taxes at Boston, iii. 91.Oliver, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts:Letters to Whately, iii. 153.O'Meara, Dr. Barry E., conversations with Napoleon, iv. 13.Omichund:Death, ii. 273.Plots against English and Suraj ud Dowlah, ii. 269, 270.Onslow, Arthur, Speaker of House of Commons:On Sir William Wyndham, i. 288.Opposes Bolingbroke's pardon, i. 259.Re-elected Speaker, ii. 22, 186.Sketch of, i. 282.Onslow, Sir Richard, i. 105.Orange Associations, iv. 274seqq.Orange, Prince of, marries Princess Anne, ii. 41.Order of Bath revived, i. 252.Orleans, Louis Philippe, Duke of (Egalité), iii. 293.Orleans, Philippe, Duke of (Regent), i. 117.Death, i. 238.Overtures to George I., i. 156, 181.Sketch of, i. 155.Ormond, Duke of:Flight, i. 111.Heads Spanish Jacobite expedition, i. 162.Impeached, i. 109, 110.In Paris, i. 119, 120.Name razed from roll of Peers, i. 114.Warden of Cinque Ports, i. 39.Orrery, Earl of:Committed to Tower, i. 214.Discharged, i. 215.Otis, James, denounces Writs of Assistance, iii. 84.Oude subjected, iii. 258.Oude, Vizier of, and Begums, iii. 271.Oxford in '45, ii. 220.Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, i. 26, 29.Acquitted, i. 111, 170.Attitude towards Restoration of Stuarts, i. 107.Character, i. 113.Committed to Tower, i. 112.Establishes South Sea Company, i. 187.Impeached of high treason, i. 109, 110, 112, 168.Petition to House of Lords, i. 168.Reception by George I., i. 101.Sketch of, i. 30.Ozinda's chocolate-house, i. 76.
Paine, Thomas, iii. 312.Pakenham, Hon. Catherine, Duchess of Wellington, iii. 334.Palmerston, Viscount:Foreign Secretary, iv. 126, 252.Member for Tiverton, iv. 254.Member of Liverpool Administration, iv. 3.On the "Inevitable Man," iv. 55.Resigns office, iv. 72.Secretary at War, iv. 58.Pamela, wife of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, iii. 313.Paradis defeats Nabob of Carnatic at St. Thome, ii. 261.Parker heads mutiny at Nore, iii. 335.Parliament:Annual, i. 146.Dissolved (1831), iv. 143.Election of 1734, ii. 19.Election of 1830, iv. 105.Irish and English, i. 179.Language of sycophancy, ii. 85.Motions for removal of Walpole, ii. 185.Of 1722, i. 206, 213.Prorogued (1727), Royal Speech, i. 278.Septennial Act, i. 146.Short, ii. 11.Speech from Throne (1739), ii. 162; (1741), ii. 186;(1765), iii. 88.Triennial Acts, i. 145.(See alsoHouse of Lords and House of Commons.)Parliamentary Opposition, system of, i. 285seqq.Parma, Duke of, i. 158.Parnell, Sir Henry:Motion on Civil Service Estimates, iv. 110.Paymaster-General, iv. 252.Parr, Dr., opinion of Sheridan, iii. 217.Patents, petitions for, i. 190."Patriots," i. 288, 296, 298.Frederick, Prince of Wales, and, ii. 50, 108, 110.In Opposition and power, ii. 242.Oppose borrowing from Sinking Fund, i. 309.Raise war cry, ii. 149, 157.Return to Commons, ii. 178.Secede from Commons, ii. 172.Struggle against Walpole, ii. 11.Patten, Rev. Robert, as King's evidence, i. 137.Peel, Sir Robert:At opening of Liverpool and Manchester railway, iv. 103.Attitude towards Catholic Emancipation, iv. 57, 68, 74, 75.Attitude towards Reform, iv. 152, 163.Declines to form Ministry, iv. 177.Free Trade and, iv. 52.Home Secretary, iv. 71, 103.Interview with King on Catholic emancipation, iv. 77.Measure on Irish Tithe System, iv. 245; Speech on, iv. 249.On claims of "Princess" Olivia, iv. 287.Prime Minister and Chancellor of Exchequer, iv. 238.Resigns office, iv. 113, 250.Speech on municipal reform, iv. 259, 260.Speech on Reform Bill, iv. 146.Summoned to form Ministry, iv. 235.Tamworth Address, iv. 240.Peerage Bill, object of, i. 174.Peers, creation of new, iv. 180.Pelham, Henry:Death, ii. 296.Letter to Duke of Cumberland, ii. 239.Paymaster, ii. 192.Prime Minister, ii. 244, 245.Pelham Ministry:Resign, ii. 244.Return to power, ii. 245.Penn, William, death, i. 179.Penny Post, London, i. 78.Pepys quoted on Duchess of Cleveland, i. 23.Perceval, Spencer:Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 341.Death, iii. 341.Regency Bill, iii. 341.Percy, Lord, commands reinforcements from Boston, iii. 174.Perry, presents petition of merchants against Spaniards, ii. 153.Perth, Duke of, ii. 223.Appeal to Macdonalds, ii. 225.Death, ii. 232.Perth, Jacobites retreat from, i. 128.Pestolozzi, Johann H., iv. 93.Peter the Great, character, i. 162.Peterborough, Lord, anecdote of, ii. 167.Philadelphia:Congress draws up Declaration of Rights, iii. 173.Evacuated, iii. 183.In hands of British, iii. 183.In 1765, iii. 77.Tea-ship at, iii. 161.Philip V. of Spain, ii. 28.Renounces French throne, i. 157.Phipps, Sir Constantine, removed from office of Chancellor, i. 98.Pitt diamond, ii. 54.Pitt Ministry (1766), members of, iii. 108.Pitt, Thomas, i. 105.M. P. for Okehampton, ii. 54.Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham:Accepts pension and barony for his wife, iii. 27.Advice to Prince of Wales, ii. 78.As War Minister, ii. 299; iii. 2, 27, 29.Character, iii. 186.Coalition against, iii. 26.Death, iii. 186.Denunciation of Walpole and Carteret, ii. 245.Illness, iii. 73, 108, 109.In House of Peers, iii. 109.Maiden speech, ii. 52, 55.On action of Boston people, iii. 161, 163.Paymaster-General, ii. 296.Protests against war with America, iii. 185.Quarrels with Temple, iii. 108.Refuses office, iii. 73, 93.Resigns office, iii. 27.Sketch of, ii. 54.Speech on Convention, ii. 171.Takes news of accession to George III., iii. 2.Takes office, ii. 274; iii. 108.Wilkes and, iii. 57.Pitt, William (the younger), iii. 211.Antagonism to Fox, iii. 225.Attacks Fox's India Bill, iii. 232.Attitude on Regency, iii. 243.Attitude towards Catholic Emancipation, iii. 308; iv. 53.Challenge to Ministry on Eastern possessions, iii. 230.Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 225.Closing hours, iii. 338.Coalition against, iii. 26, 225.Contrasted with Fox, iii. 212.Death, iii. 339.Declines Vice-Treasurership of Ireland, iii. 224.Difficulties of Administration, iii. 240.Financial measures, iii. 239.First Lord of Treasury and Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 236.Foreign policy, iii. 302.French policy, iii. 301.India Bill, iii. 237, 238.Irish policy, iii. 319, 327.Makes name in Commons, iii. 223.Plan of Parliamentary reform, iii. 229, 240.Refuses to appeal for payment of Prince of Wales's debts, iii. 242.Resigns office, iii. 337.Sketch of, iii. 214.Speech on Benares vote, iii. 277, 279.Speech on Trafalgar, iii. 339.Struggle with Napoleon Bonaparte, iii. 332, 337.Supports Dundas, iii. 338.Plassey (Palasi), Battle of, ii. 271, 272.Playhouse Bill, ii. 96, 99.Plunket, Lord, Lord Chancellor for Ireland, iv. 127.Pocket boroughs, iv. 99, 147.Poland, condition of, iv. 40.Poland, election of king, ii. 23.Political freedom in 1716, i. 144.Political life in 1742, ii. 239.Political parties in 1728, i. 287, 288.Pomeroy, General, iii. 176, 179.Pontiac conspiracy, iii. 79.Population of Great Britain (1714), i. 63.Poor Laws, iv. 221seqq.Commission, iv. 225.Bill, iv. 228, 229.Pope, Alexander:"Dunciad," i. 301.Epitaph on James Craggs, i. 198.Epitaph on Sir Isaac Newton, i. 272.Lampoons, ii. 102, 103.Loses money in South Sea stock, i. 22.On Argyll, Duke of, i. 44.On Bacon, i. 22.On Bolingbroke, i. 29.On Oxford, i. 29, 31.Place in literature, ii. 197.Sketch of, ii. 197.Popham, Major, defeats Rajah's troops, iii. 270."Porcupine Papers," iv. 155.Porteous, Captain John:Death, ii. 64.Sentence on, ii. 62.Sketch of, ii. 58.Porteous riots, ii. 58seqq.Portland, William Cavendish Bentinck, Duke of:Prime Minister, iii. 340.Supports Wilkes, iii. 116.Portsmouth, press-gang in, iv. 265.Portugal: free institutions, iv. 43.Potter, Thomas, iii. 48, 65.Vice-Treasurer for Ireland, iii. 49.Praed, Winthrop Mackworth, iv. 239.Pratt, Justice, Lord Camden, iii. 109.Discharges Wilkes, iii. 60, 67.Predestination, Wesley and Whitefield dispute on, ii. 139.Prescott, hero of Breed Hill, iii. 179.Preston:"Fancy franchises," iv. 183.Jacobites defeated at, i. 128.Preston, Colonel, commands British troops at Boston, iii. 151.Preston, General, in Edinburgh Castle, ii. 215.Preston Pans, Battle of, ii. 214, 215.Prideaux, —, in Canada, ii. 287.Primacy of Ireland and George IV., iv. 27.Prior, Matthew, i. 38.Arrested, i. 106.M. P. for East Grinstead, i. 52.Prisoners in 1715, i. 136.Privy Council, July 30, 1714, i. 40, 45, 46.Proctor, Sir W. Beauchamp, Whig candidate for Middlesex, iii. 117."Protestant" and "Catholic" Ministers, iv. 54.Prussia, position at end of Seven Years' War, iii. 29.Public Advertiser, Letters of Juniusin, iii. 128.Pulteney, William (Earl of Bath), i. 105.Accepts Peerage, ii. 192.Advice to Prince of Wales, ii. 78.Alliance with Bolingbroke, i. 260; ii. 17.Attacks Convention and Ministers, ii. 156, 172.Declines office, ii. 191.Duel with Hervey, i. 306.Founder of Parliamentary Opposition, i. 225, 284, 288; ii. 195.Leader of discontented Whigs, i. 287.Letters to Pope, i. 305.Letter to Swift, i. 306.Motion on papers concerning war, ii. 187.On Arbuthnot, ii. 20.On grievances against Spain, ii. 154, 156.On Walpole's excise scheme, i. 315.Opposes Playhouse Bill, ii. 99.Proposes allowance for Prince of Wales, ii. 82.Sketch of, i. 98, 253, 286.Speech on salt tax, i. 313.Speech on Secession, ii. 178.Tribune of Commons, ii. 192, 194.Puritanism in Boston, iii. 76.Purkitt, Henry, iii. 161.Putnam, Israel, iii. 176, 179.
Quadruple Alliance, i. 161.Principle of, i. 295.Quebec:Attacked by Wolfe, ii. 287.Described, ii. 287, 291.Founded, ii. 283.Queen Anne's Bounty, i. 280.Queen Anne's houses, i. 69.Queensberry, Duke of, iii. 244.
Radcliffe, Charles, escapes from Newgate, i. 142.Radical party, i. 20.Rise of, iv. 218.Rae, Fraser, on elections of Lord Mayor, iii. 137."Rainbow" Coffee-house, i. 75.Rainsforth, house sacked, iii. 201.Rajah Dulab Ram, ii. 272.Rajah Sahib:Besieges Arcot, ii. 263.Defeated, ii. 263.Ramnagar stronghold, iii. 270.Rathbone, William, and movement against monopoly of EastIndia Company, iv. 231.Ray, Miss, murdered by Hickman, iii. 50."Rebecca and Her Daughters," ii. 56.Rebellion of 1745, ii. 203seqq.Reform Bill (First):Committee, iv. 127.Debate on, iv. 144, 149.Introduced in Commons, iv. 134, 137.General Gascoigne's amendment, iv. 150.Principles of, iv. 143.Redistribution, iv. 142.Scheme for, iv. 129, 132.Second Reading, iv. 149.Reform Bill (Second), iv. 154.Introduced into House of Lords, iv. 168.Rejected, iv. 169.Second Reading, iv. 154, 159.Third Reading, iv. 166.Obstructed, iv. 161, 163.Reform Bill (Third), iv. 172.Defect in, iv. 182.Passed, iv. 181.Political Parties and, iv. 218.Reform Bills for Ireland and Scotland, iv. 181.Reform Meetings, iv. 177.Reform Parliament (First), iv. 172, 204, 241.Reform Riots, iv. 170.Regency Bill, iii. 72.Regency Question (1830), iv. 101, 104, 107.Religious equality and Parliament, iv. 67, 99.Restoration dramatists, character of, ii. 93.Revere, Paul, iii. 174.Reynolds, Sir Joshua:Friend of Goldsmith, iii. 169.Portrait of Wilkes, iii. 68.Richelieu, Duc de, captures Minorca, ii. 297.Richmond, Duke of:On "Our Army," iii. 183.Speech on Annual Parliaments, iii. 197.Richter, Jean Paul, on:Eloquence, ii. 135.Laurence Sterne, ii. 302.Rigby, Richard, sketch of, iii. 36.Riot in St. George's Fields, iii. 120, 124.Rioters killed, wounded, and executed, iii. 209.Ripon, Earl of (seeGoderich, Viscount).Ripperda, Duke of, i. 264.Rob Roy at Sheriffmuir, i. 126.Robertson, Dr., threatened, iii. 195.Robertson, George, and Porteous riots, ii. 58.Robinson, Dr. John, Bishop of London, i. 109.Robinson, Frederick (seeGoderich, Viscount).Robinson, Sir Thomas, ii. 297.Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth, Marquis of:Character, iii. 94.Dismissed from office, iii. 108.Prime Minister, iii. 94.Repeals Stamp Act, iii. 104.Second Ministry, iii. 223.Rohilla War, iii. 258.Roman Catholics (seeCatholics).Romilly, Sir Samuel:Death and character, iii. 346.Philanthropic reforms, iv. 21.Rosebery, Lord, on Pitt's position, iii. 240.Ross, General:Captures Washington, iii. 346.Speaks for Bolingbroke, i. 108.Rousseau, on "Robinson Crusoe," ii. 1.Rowe, Nicholas, i. 38.Roxburgh, Duke of, attitude towards Walpole, i. 250.Royal Society of Literature founded, iv. 93.Royal Standard set up at Glenfinnan, ii. 206, 210.Russell, Lord John:As reformer, iv. 104, 126, 127.As speaker, iv. 133.Beaten in S. Devonshire, iv. 253.Carries repeal of Test and Corporation Acts, iv. 52, 67."English Government and Constitution," iv. 128, 129.Home Secretary, iv. 252.Interview with Napoleon in Elba, iv. 277.Leader of Opposition, iv. 103.Municipal Bill, iv. 257, 260.On Parliamentary Reform, iv. 85.Reforms Parliamentary representation, iv. 22.Resolution on Irish Church revenues, iv. 246, 250.Second Reform Bill, iv. 154.Sketch of proposed Reform Bill, iv. 128, 132.Speech on Greek cause, iv. 48.Speech on Reform Bill, iv. 137seqq.Statement on Reform Act, iv. 182.Rupert, Prince, sketch of, i. 6.Russia in 1716, i. 154.Russia: policy towards Greece and Turkey, iv. 49.
Sacheverell, Dr., impeached, i. 34.St. James's, i. 65.St. James's coffee-house, i. 75.St. James's Chronicle, iii. 124.St. James's Square, i. 67.St. James's Street, i. 66.St. John, Henry, Viscount (seeBolingbroke).St. Helena, Island of, iii. 344.St. Margaret's Lane, London, i. 64.St. Patrick's Well, Dublin, i. 81.St. Simon on Mississippi scheme, i. 185.St. Thome, Nabob of Carnatic defeated at, ii. 261.Sala, George Augustus, picture of London in '45, ii. 219.Salt tax, i. 313.Sandwich, Earl of, iii. 48, 49.Denounces Wilkes, and "Essay on Woman," iii. 65.First Lord of Admiralty, iii. 48."Jemmy Twitcher," iii. 68.Mobbed, iii. 202.Sandys, Samuel, Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 192.Motions against Walpole, ii. 185, 186.Saratoga, Burgoyne surrenders at, iii. 183.Sarsfield defends Limerick, i. 83."Saturday" Club, i. 74.Savile, Sir George:Bill for Catholic Relief, iii. 190, 191.House sacked, iii. 201.Sketch of, iii. 190.Saxe, Maurice de:Commands at Fontenoy and Lauffeld, ii. 239.Parentage, i. 8.Sayer, James, caricature of Fox, iii. 233.Scarborough, Lord:Character, ii. 5.On Declaration of War, ii. 178.Schaub, Sir Luke, Ambassador at Paris, i. 237.Recalled, i. 239.Schleswig-Holstein, seized by King of Denmark, i. 161.Schomberg, Duke of, opinion of Marlborough, i. 24.Scotch Judges at Bar of House of Lords, ii. 66, 67.Scotland:Condition in 1745, ii. 208.Fanaticism in, iii. 194.Riots in, i. 249.Scott, Captain, commands Scots Royal, ii. 206.Scott, Dr., iii. 203.Scott, Major, defends Hastings, iii. 274, 276, 282.Scott, Sir Walter:Interview with George IV., iv. 29.Later years and death, iv. 187.Sketch of John, Duke of Argyll, i. 44.Scottish Highlands and Lowlands, i. 87.Scratton, represents Company at Murshidabad, iii. 250."Scriblerus" Club, i. 73.Secession from House of Commons, ii. 172, 175.Secretary of State, two departments, ii. 192.Seeley, Professor, on "Family Compact," ii. 31, 33.Selwyn, George, attachment to Fox, iii. 214.Senior, Nassau:Attitude towards Poor Relief, iv. 223.On Poor Law Committee, iv. 225.Septennial Act, i. 146, 147.Debate on repealing, ii. 10.Serres, Olivia Wilmot, sketch of, iv. 286.Servants in 1714, i. 77.Seven Men of Moidart, ii. 205.Seven Years' War, ii. 297; iii. 29.Close of, iii. 79.Sévigné, Mme. de, ii. 35.Seville, Treaty of, i. 297.Trade disputes and, ii. 150.Shackleton, Richard, schoolmaster of Edmund Burke, iii. 97.Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of:Factory labor and, iv. 200seqq.Sketch of, iv. 203.Shah Alum, enterprise against Meer Jaffier, ii. 273.Sheffield, iv. 99.Shelburne, William Petty, Earl of:Opposes calling out military, iii. 198.Passed over by Pitt, iii. 236.Secretary of State, iii. 109.Sketch of, iii. 223, 224.Shelley, Percy Bysshe, death, iv. 92.Sherbrooke, Robert Lowe, Lord, i. 290.Sheridan, Charles, iii. 218.Sheridan, Mrs., opinion of her boys, iii. 217.Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, iii. 211.Attitude towards French Revolution, iii. 296.Begum speech, iii. 280.Duel with Matthews, iii. 219.Funeral in Westminster Abbey, iii. 346.M. P. for Stamford, iii. 221.Marriage, iii. 220, 222."School for Scandal," "Critic," iii. 221.Sketch of, iii. 216.Speeches during Hastings's trial, iii. 280, 286."The Rivals," iii. 221.Under-Secretary of State, iii. 224.Sheridan (Dr.), Thomas, friend of Swift, iii. 216.Sheridan (Sir), Thomas:Death, ii. 232.Tutor to Charles Stuart, ii. 205.Sheriffmuir, battle of, i. 125.Shippen:Amendment on Supply (1727), i. 280.Leader of Jacobites, i. 287.Opposes Septennial Bill, i. 146.Sketch of, i. 289.Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Duke of, i. 41.Death, i. 179.Lord High Treasurer, i. 45.Resigns offices, i. 97.Sketch of career, i. 41.Shrewsbury, Duke of, killed by Duke of Buckingham, i. 41.Shrewsbury in 1714, i. 79.Siddons, Mrs., death, iv. 285.Sidmouth, Viscount, Home Secretary:Challenged by Thistlewood, iv. 16.Signs in streets, i. 70.Sinking Fund, borrowing from, i. 309.Slaughter's coffee-house, i. 75.Slave Trade, Fox and, iii. 340.Slavery, iv. 189seqq.Crusade against, iv. 93.(See alsoWest Indies, slavery in.)Smith, Rev. John, sentenced to death, iv. 194.Smith, Sydney, on:Collection of tithes in Ireland, iv. 208, 210, 211.Spencer Perceval, iii. 341."Smock races," i. 72.Smollett andBriton, iii. 51.Smuggling in American colonies, iii. 83.Sobieski, Clementine, wife of James Stuart, ii. 199.Retires to convent, ii. 200.Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge founded, iv. 93.Somers, John, Lord, i. 47, 54.Accomplishes Union of England and Scotland, i. 84.Approves Septennial Bill, i. 147.Member of New Council, i. 101.Sketch of career, i. 147.Somerset, Charles Seymour, Duke of: sketch of, i. 42.Somerset, Charlotte, Duchess of, i. 42.Somerset, Elizabeth, Duchess of, i. 43.Somerville, Dr. Thomas,History of Reign of Queen Anne, i. 13.Somerville, Lord, house molested, ii. 217.Sophia Dorothea, wife of George I., i. 6, 153.Banished to Castle of Ahlden, i. 7.Death, i. 267.Will, i. 269.Sophia, Electress of Hanover, i. 4, 5.South Sea Bill, i. 189, 190.South Sea Company, i. 187, 193; ii. 150.Petitions for relief, i. 194.Principle of, i. 194.Reconstituted, ii. 167.South Sea House, i. 186.South Sea victims, i. 194, 204.Spain:Claims Right of Search, ii. 151, 163, 245.Complaints against, i. 294.Demands constitutional government, iv. 40, 43.England and, trade disputes, ii. 150.In 1716, i. 154, 155.Portugal and, dispute between, ii. 35.Treaty of Utrecht and, i. 227.War declared against, ii. 178.Spean's Bridge, brush at, ii. 206.Spencer, John Charles, Earl, iv. 234.As Speaker, iv. 133.Chancellor of Exchequer, iv. 125.Declaration on Reform Bill, iv. 164.Motion on speech from Throne, iv. 104.On Government measure for Irish Tithe Question, iv. 211.On slavery in Colonies, iv. 195.Sketch of, iv. 125.Spies in Ireland in '98, iii. 314.Spithead, mutiny at, iii. 335.Stage Censorship, ii. 96seqq.Stair, John Dalrymple, Earl of:Character, i. 120, 225.Commands British troops, ii. 182.Recalled from French Court, i. 225.Stamp Act, iii. 87, 88.Repealed, iii. 103.Stanhope, Charles, and South Sea Company, i. 197, 200.Stanhope, Colonel (seeHarrington, Lord).Stanhope, James, Earl, iii. 339.Attitude towards French Revolution, iii. 302.Death, i. 173.First Lord of Treasury and Chancellor of Exchequer, i. 165.Impeaches Duke of Ormond, i. 109.Mission to Vienna, i. 152.On funds and Queen Anne's health, i. 2.On Irish clergy, ii. 130.On Oxford, Earl of, i. 31.Recognized religious equality, i. 173.Second Secretary of State, i. 97, 99.Sketch of, i. 100.Stanhope, Lady Hester, iii. 339.Stanley, Lord (seeDerby, Earl of).States-General convoked, iii. 293.Steele, Sir Richard:Career, i. 38.Compared with Addison, i. 300.Death, i. 299.M. P. for Stockbridge, i. 52.On Somers, i. 147.On Whig and Tory, i. 17.Petition in favor of rebels, i. 137, 138.Tribute to Atterbury, i. 214.Stephen, Sir James, "Story of Nuncomar," iii. 263.Sterne, Laurence, "Tristram Shandy," ii. 299, 301.Sterne, Roger, ii. 299.Death, ii. 300.Stevenson, Dr., keeps guard at Netherbow Gate, ii. 212.Stewart, Dugald, iv. 93.Stoke Pogis church-yard, ii. 289.Stow, "Survey of London" quoted on penny post, i. 78.Strafford, Lord, charges against, i. 109.Stratford de Redcliffe, Viscount, iv. 32.Streets of London in 1714, i. 70.Strickland, Francis, supports Young Pretender, ii. 205.Stuart, Cardinal Henry, death, ii. 234.Stuart, Charles Edward, Young Pretender:Advantages on his side, ii. 208, 209, 218, 221.Adventures after Culloden, ii. 226.At siege of Gaeta, ii. 29, 201, 203.Birth, ii. 199.Education, ii. 201, 202.Enters Holyrood, ii. 214.Humanity during campaign, ii. 215, 217.In London, iii. 14.Later career, ii. 233, 234.March into England, ii. 217.Marches on Edinburgh, ii. 210, 213.Proclamation, ii. 206.Rebellion of 1745, ii. 204seqq.Retreats, ii. 223.Wishes to advance on London, ii. 222.Stuart influence on literature, ii. 234.Stuart, James Francis Edward (Old Pretender), i. 4.Character, i. 126.Dismisses Bolingbroke, i. 131.Embarks for Scotland, i. 120.Life of exile, ii. 199, 201.On South Sea scheme, i. 200.Proclaimed in Dundee, i. 123.Rebellion in favor of, i. 118.Returns to France, i. 128.Rumors of, i. 264.Sketch of, i. 9seqq.Stuart standard set up at Braemer, i. 121, 123.Sugar Act of 1733, iii. 83.Sullivan, iii. 179.Sully, advice to Henry IV., i. 13.Sumner, Dr., Head-master of Harrow, iii. 217.Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, i. 54.Accusations against Townshend and Walpole, i. 164.Death, i. 206.Motion implicating him in South Sea scheme, i. 199.Plot against Walpole, i. 207.Speech in favor of South Sea Bill, i. 191.Viceroy of Ireland, i. 97.Suraj ud Dowlah:Black Hole of Calcutta, ii. 266.Captured and killed, ii. 273.Character, ii. 266.Death, iii. 250.Declares war against English, iii. 249.Swetenham, Captain, ii. 207.Swift, Jonathan, Dean of St. Patrick's:Attitude towards Irish, i. 243.Character, ii. 237.Death, ii. 236.Defends Treaty of Utrecht, i. 96.Dialogue between Whig and Tory, i. 219."Drapier's Letters," i. 240, 242, 247."Gulliver's Travels," i. 302.Lampoons, ii. 102.Letter to Lord Peterborough, i. 36.Letter to Sheridan on Walpole, i. 306.On Arbuthnot, ii. 21.On Bolingbroke, i. 26, 28.On Condition of Church, ii. 129.On Marlborough, i. 24.On Oxford, Earl of, i. 31, 168.On Queen Anne's health, i. 1, 36.On Somerset, Duke of, i. 43.On William Congreve, i. 299.Patron of Berkeley, ii. 293.Poems on South Sea mania, i. 202.Reception of Carteret, i. 235.Sketch of, i. 35.Stella and, ii. 236.Swinburne, "A Jacobite's Exile," ii. 235.
Talbot, Charles, Lord Chancellor, ii. 9, 81.Talleyrand:Dines with William IV., iv. 117.On Alexander Hamilton, ii. 248; iv. 281.Tea tax introduced by Townshend, iii. 113.Telford, Thomas, death, iv. 282.Temple, John, iii. 155.Temple, Richard Grenville, Earl, iii. 26.Action on India Bill, iii. 234.Persuades Pitt to refuse office, iii. 73, 93.Removed from Lord-Lieutenancy, iii. 64.Resigns office, iii. 236.Shows King's speech to Wilkes, iii. 57.Supports Wilkes, iii. 116.Ten-pound franchise, iv. 130.Tenterden, Chief Justice, decision in Cobbett prosecution, iv. 157.Test Act:Debate on proposed repeal, ii. 176.Repeal proposed, ii. 110.Repealed, iv. 52, 67.Thackeray, W. M., iv. 286.Description of Hanover, i. 55.On George IV., iii. 242.On interview of George IV. and Sir Walter Scott, iv. 29.On interview of George IV. with Wellington, Lyndhurst,and Peel, iv. 78.On Laurence Sterne, ii. 302.On Swift's character, ii. 237, 238.Thames frozen (1716), i. 154.Thames Tunnel, iv. 93.Thistlewood, plots to assassinate Ministers, iv. 15.Thomas, —, iii. 179.Thornhill, Sir James, i. 68.Thurlow, Lord, iii. 228.Thynne, Thomas, Lord, i. 8.Tippu, English make treaty with, iii. 266.Tithe question, Ireland, iv. 207seqq., 216, 220.Government proposal on, iv. 211, 245.Tobacco, excise duty on, i. 316.Tolbooth fired, ii. 64.Tone, Matthew, fights under Humbert, iii. 324.Tone, Theobald Wolfe, iv. 206.Death, iii. 327.Letter to his wife, iii. 324.Marriage, iii. 311.Project for colony in South Sea island, iii. 310.Scheme for French invasion of Ireland, iii. 311.Sketch of, iii. 309seqq.Tonson, Jacob, Secretary to Kit-Kat Club, i. 74.Torcy, Marquis de, Secretary of State, France, i. 110.Tories:Attitude towards restoration of Stuarts, i. 16, 19.Doctrines, i. 17seqq.Jacobitism and, iii. 24.Old school of, iv. 241.Origin of name, i. 17.Peace of Utrecht and, i. 92.Toulon:Retaken by French, iii. 304.Welcomes English fleet, iii. 303.Townshend, Alderman, opposes Wilkes, iii. 136.Townshend, Audrey, Marchioness of, iii. 110.Townshend, Charles ("Weathercock"), i. 99.Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 109.Character, iii. 110.Death, iii. 113.Introduces tea tax for America, iii. 113.Townshend, Charles, Viscount:Accompanies King to Hanover, i. 237.Dismissed, i. 164.President of Council, i. 182.Resigns office, i. 304.Secretary of State, i. 97, 278.Sketch of, i. 99.Trading Guilds, origin of, iv. 255.Trafalgar, battle of, iii. 337.Traill, H. D., on Laurence Sterne, ii. 302.Treaties (seeunder various titles).Trichinopoly:Besieged, ii. 262.Relieved, ii. 264.Triennial Parliament Acts, i. 145.Triple Alliance, i. 161, 163.Tucker, Dean, on mutinous colonies, iii. 163.Tullibardine:Dies in Tower, ii. 232.Supports Young Pretender, ii. 205, 206.Turkey in 1716, i. 154.
Ulm, capitulation of, iii. 338.Union, Scotland's attitude towards, i. 83.University College Charter, iv. 261.University of London, Charter, iv. 261.Upper Ossory, John, Earl of, iii. 36.Utrecht, Treaty of, i. 95, 157, 227, 263.Campeachy logwood question and, i. 295.Tories and, i. 92.Trade disputes and, ii. 150.Will of Charles II. and, ii. 27.
Valley Forge, iii. 183.Vanhomrigh, Esther (Vanessa), i. 36.Alters her will, ii. 294.Vansittart, Governor of East India Company, iii. 251.Advice on quarrel of Nawab and Ellis, iii. 252.Vendôme, Duc de, i. 100.Character, i. 158.Verazani forms settlement in Canada, ii. 283.Verden ceded to Hanover, i. 161.Verona Congress and Holy Alliance, iv. 39, 42, 45.Victoria, Princess Alexandrina:Birth, iii. 348.Heir-presumptive, iv. 101.William IV, and, iv. 117, 118.Vienna, Congress of, iv. 38.Vienna, Treaty of, i. 295; ii. 30.Virginia protests against Stamp Act, iii. 90.Voltaire, epigram on Byng, ii. 298.Von Steuben in America, iii. 183.Vote by ballot proposed, iv. 131.
Wade, General, clans surrender arms to, ii. 209.Wales, Prince of (seeFrederick Lewis, Prince of Wales,and George IV.).Walkenshaw, Miss, ii. 233.Walmoden, Mme., ii. 48, 76, 304.Walpole, Baron, i. 224.Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford:Account of his father (1742), ii. 189.Acquainted with Paris, iii. 293.Contrasts Townshend with Burke, iii. 112.Description of George I., i. 58.Description of Lord Hillsborough, iii. 148.Description of Mme. Kilmansegge, i. 7.Eulogy of Queen Charlotte, iii. 12.Maiden speech in defence of his father, ii. 195.On Bute's Administration, iii. 28.On Carteret, i. 235.On Chesterfield's speeches, ii. 5.On Coronation of George III., iii. 12.On dinner hour, iii. 18.On James Stuart, i. 11.On Lord George Gordon, iii. 193.On Whitefield's eloquence, ii. 139.On Wilkes's career, iii. 137.Walpole, Horatio, Lord:Ambassador to Paris, i. 237, 238, 291.Moves Address on Convention, ii. 171.Recalled from Paris, i. 304.Walpole, Sir Robert, Earl of Orford:Accepts war policy, ii. 180.Administration, i. 224seqq., 305.Address to George II., i. 280.Advice to Princesses, ii. 126.At Houghton, i. 196; ii. 195.At Queen Caroline's death-bed, ii. 119.Attacks Peerage Bill, i. 176.Attempts to get influence of James Stuart, ii. 186.Attitude towards financial reform, ii. 36.Bill to adjust affairs of South Sea Company, i. 203, 205.Chairman of Committee of Secrecy, i. 105, 106, 168.Character, i. 165; ii. 8, 18, 196.Charges against, ii. 187, 195.Conduct on Prince of Wales's allowance, ii. 80.Correspondence with Townshend, i. 252.Corruption under, i. 231; ii. 13, 19, 90, 195; iii. 25.Created Earl of Orford, ii. 190.Death, ii. 196.First great finance minister, i. 229.Fiscal policy, i. 230, 309, 311seqq.Foreign policy, i. 229, 236, 292, 305; ii. 24, 31, 149.Hails George II. King, i. 275.Health in 1742, ii. 188.Made K. B., i. 252.Made K. G., i. 252.Masterly inactivity, ii. 24, 31, 36.Moves Address (1715), i. 103.On Frederick, Prince of Wales, ii. 71.On Queen's illness, ii. 115.On Royal family, ii. 74.On South Sea Company, i. 188, 196.Paymaster-General, i. 97, 181.Pleads against war with Spain, ii. 155, 159.Quarrel with Townshend, i. 304.Relations with stage, ii. 95.Resigns office, i. 164; ii. 190.Restored to office, i. 278.Secretary of State for Scotland, i. 250.Settles dispute between Spain and Portugal, ii. 35.Sketch of career, i. 32; ii. 196.Speech on Bolingbroke, ii. 15.Speech on Prince of Wales's allowance, ii. 86.Speech on secession from Commons, ii. 174.War declared against Spain, ii. 178.Results of, ii. 183.War of Independence, ii. 43.War of Polish Succession, ii. 23seqq.War of the Succession, purpose of, i. 92.War passion, ii. 148.War with Spain, iii. 29.Ward, Artemus, iii. 179.Ward, Henry, resolution on Irish State Church, iv. 212, 213, 214.Ward, Ned, ballad on Marlborough's return to England, i. 53.Ward, Plumer, author of "Tremaine," iv. 213.Ward, Sir John, petition on South Sea Company, i. 203.Wardle, Colonel, iii. 338.Warren, General, iii. 176.Washington, George:Character, iii. 188.Commands Continental army, iii. 181.Disapproves of Boston exploit, iii. 161, 163.Fires first shot against enemy, ii. 285.First President of American Republic, iii. 189.Sketch of career, iii. 180.Watson, Admiral, commands fleet against Suraj ud Dowlah, ii. 269."Waverers," iv. 173.Webster, "Duchess of Malfi" quoted, iv. 11.Wedderburn, Alexander, Solicitor-General, iii. 149.Denounces Franklin, iii. 156, 157.On using military against mob, iii. 207.Sketch of, iii. 158.Speech on Middlesex election petition, iii. 131."Weekly Political Register," Cobbett's article in, iv. 156, 157.Wellesley, Arthur (seeWellington, Duke of).Wellesley, Garret, Earl of Mornington, iii. 341.Wellesley, Richard C., Marquis of:Resigns Vice-royalty of Ireland, iv. 73.Sketch of career, iv. 72.Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of:Accompanies George IV. to Waterloo, iv. 28.At opening of Liverpool and Manchester railway, iv. 103.Attitude towards Catholic Emancipation, iv. 54, 56, 75, 106.Attitude towards Municipal Bill, iv. 260.Attitude towards Parliamentary reform, iv. 52.Attitude towards Queen Caroline, iv. 7.Character, iv. 120.Declines to form ministry, iv. 177.Duel with Lord Winchilsea, iv. 81.Interview with King on Catholic emancipation, iv. 77.Prime Minister, iv. 67, 100.Represents England at Congress of Verona, iv. 41, 42.Resigns office, iv. 113.Secretary for Foreign Affairs, iv. 238.Sketch of, iii. 341seqq.Speech against Reform Bill, iv. 169.Speech on Parliamentary reform, iv. 108.Supports Poor Law Bill, iv. 229.Unpopular, iv. 153.Welsh Copper and Lead Company, and South Sea Company, i. 193.Wentworth, Lady, describes house in Golden Square, i. 70.Wesley, Charles, ii. 128, 137, 145.Accompanies John to Georgia, ii. 134.On Revivalist meetings, ii. 139.Wesley, John:Breaks away from Moravians, ii. 140.Breaks from discipline of Church of England, ii. 142.Character, ii. 134, 135, 137, 142.Dispute with Whitefield, ii. 139.Marriage, ii. 137.Organization, ii. 140.Sketch of, ii. 127seqq.Visits Georgia, ii. 127.Wesleyan Movement, account of, ii. 127seqq.In United States, ii. 144.Revivalist meetings, ii. 138.West Indian Planters, grant to, iv. 198, 200.West Indies, slavery in, iv. 190seqq.Abolished, iv. 199, 200.Westminster Hall, iv. 268.Booths in, i. 64.Explosion in, ii. 45.Wetherell, Sir Charles, obstructs Reform Bill, iv. 163.Rescued from rioters, iv. 197.Weymouth, Lord, letter to magistrate in case of riot, iii. 120, 124.Wharncliffe, Lord, amendment to Reform Bill, iv. 169.Wharton, Duke of:Character, i. 264.Condemns South Sea Bill, i. 191, 198.Whately, —, private secretary to George Grenville, iii. 153.Whately, William, iii. 155.Wheler, appointed Governor-General, iii. 264.Whigs:Ascendency, iii. 24.Attitude towards Hanoverian Succession, i. 16.Doctrines, i. 17seqq.Foreign policy (1716), i. 157.Nobles and Reform Bill, iv. 178.Origin of name, i. 17.Whitbread, efforts to inquire into troubles in Ireland, iii. 319.Whitefield, George, ii. 128, 137, 145.Disputes with Wesley, ii. 139.Oratory, ii. 139.White's chocolate-house, i. 76.Widdrington, Lord, a prisoner, i. 137, 138.Wilberforce, William:Later years, iv. 280.Supports Queen Caroline, iv. 6.Votes against Dundas, iii. 338.West-Indian Slavery and, iv. 191, 193, 194.Wilkes, John:Arrested, iii. 59.At King's Bench, iii. 119.Attack on, iii. 64, 66.Brings actions against Lord Halifax and Wood, iii. 63.Candidate for Parliament, iii. 116, 117, 126, 137.Catholic Relief for Scotland and, iii. 195.Churchill and, iii. 55.Committed to Tower, iii. 60.Death, iii. 139.Duel with Martin, iii. 66.Elected Alderman for Farringdon Without, iii. 134.Elected Lord Mayor, iii. 137.Elected Sheriff, iii. 136.Expelled from House, iii. 130.Interview with Johnson, iii. 138.Later life, iii. 137.Liberated from prison, iii. 135.Literary executor to Churchill, iii. 69.M. P. for Aylesbury, iii. 49, 51.North Britonand, iii. 52, 55, 57.On rioters, iii. 209.Outlawed, iii. 68.Released by Judge Pratt, iii. 60, 63.Sketch of, iii. 48seqq.Summoned before Commons, iii. 135.William III., opinion of Duke of Marlborough, i. 24.William IV.:Accession, iv. 96.Assents to Bill for Abolition of Slavery, iv. 199.Attitude towards Duke of Wellington, iv. 115.Attitude towards Irish State Church, iv. 219.Attitude towards Ministry (1831), iv. 151.Attitude towards Reform, iv. 172, 173, 175, 179, 181.Character, iv. 98, 114, 115, 120, 293.Conduct as admiral, iv. 115.Conduct to Mrs. Fitzherbert, iv. 88.Death, iv. 293.Dismisses Whig Government and sends for Sir Robert Peel, iv. 235.Illness, iv. 289.Lord High Admiral, iv. 60, 96.Marries Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, iv. 97.Mrs. Jordan and, iv. 97.Opens Parliament (1831), iv. 154.Orangeism and, iv. 279.Popular, iv. 153, 154.Prayers for, iv. 292.Raises his children to Peerage, iv. 114.Sanctions Reform Bill, iv. 132.Speech from Throne (1830), iv. 100, 103, 108.Speech from Throne (1831), iv. 172.Speeches at state dinners, iv. 116, 117.Unconventionalities, iv. 118.Unpopular, iv. 179.Williamson, Dr. Hugh, iii. 154.Will's coffee-house, i. 75.Wilmington, Lord (seeCompton, Sir Spencer).Wilmot, Olivia, sketch of, iv. 286.Wilmot, Robert, on grievances against Spaniards, ii. 154.Wilson, Alexander, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Billagainst, ii. 66, 68.Wilson's execution and Porteous riots, ii. 60, 61.Winchilsea, Earl of:Duel with Duke of Wellington, iv. 81.On Princess Anne's Dowry, ii. 44, 45.Letter on Duke of Wellington and Catholic Emancipation, iv. 80.Window tax, iii. 239.Wine-drinking in Georgian era, iii. 20.Wintoun, Earl of, a prisoner, i. 137.Escapes, i. 142.Witherington, Matilda, wife of Wolfe Tone, iii. 311, 329.Wolfe, James:At Culloden, ii. 227, 282.Character, ii. 282.Death, ii. 290.Monument, ii. 290.Wood, Alderman, supports Queen Caroline, iv. 5.Wood, William, patent for copper coins, i. 164, 241, 244.Withdrawn, i. 248.Wooster, —, iii. 179.Wray, Sir Cecil, opponent of Fox at Westminster, iii. 238.Writs of Assistance, iii. 84, 86.Wyndham, Sir William:Announces secession from Commons, ii. 173.Death, ii. 179.Leader of Tories, i. 287.On grievances against Spaniards, ii. 156.On Salt Tax, i. 313.Sketch of, i. 288; ii. 179.Speech on repeal of Septennial Act, ii. 12.Wynn, Sir Walter Williams, supports Young Pretender, ii. 221.Wynn, Watkin Williams, argument against long Parliaments, ii. 12.
Yale College, places in lists, iii. 77.York, Frederick Augustus, Duke of:Death, iv. 60.Public career, iv. 60.York in 1714, i. 79.Yorktown, Cornwallis surrenders at, iii. 184.Young, Arthur, travels in France, iii. 293.
Zinzendorf, Count von, founds Moravian sect, ii. 134.Zoological Gardens opened, iv. 93.