ambassador at Paris,38,44,46-48;
lord president of the council,49,52,65-67,89,100,274,359.
Belgium. SeeAustrian Netherlands.
Belle Ile, capture of,15,23,24,26,40.
Bennington, battle at,177.
Beresford, John,369,370.
Bergues,353.
Bernard, Sir Francis, governor of Massachusetts,82,88;
recalled,91.
Bewick, John,263.
Bewick, Thomas,263.
Bill of Rights Society,104.
Birmingham riots. SeeRiots.
Black, Joseph,263.
Blackstock, battle at,221.
Blackstone, Sir William, hisCommentaries on the Laws of England,6,261.
Blake, William, artist poet,260.
Blanca, Florida (corr.Florida Blanca),210,319,320.
Bligh, Captain,263.
Bloomsbury gang,87.
Bloomsbury Square. SeeLondon.
Bolingbroke, Viscount (St. John), hisIdea of a Patriot King,6.
Bompard, Admiral,415.
Bonaparte, Joseph,439.
Bonaparte, Napoleon,375;
first Italian expedition,380-383,390,397,401,402,414;
his Egyptian campaign,415-417;
his Syrian campaign,418-420,424,431;
first consul,432;
negotiates with England for peace,433,436;
second Italian expedition,437;
offers peace to the emperor,437,438;
proposes naval armistice with Great Britain,440;
makes a treaty with the United States,442;
schemes against England,443,445.
Bonhomme Richard, the,197.
Boscawen, Admiral,15.
Boston, opposition to stamp act,60,61;
massacre,109,124,125;
riot,126-128;
port bill,129;
harbour closed,132,138;
siege of,139,142;
evacuation of,155,157,161,179,194,198.
Bouillé, Marquis de,227.
Bounties,273,274;
corn,404;
on importation of wheat,435,444,445.
Bouquet, Colonel,58.
Boydell, John,263.
Braddock, General,146.
Brandywine, battle of the,174.
Brant, Joseph, Mohawk chief,178.
Braxfield, Robert, Lord Braxfield (Macqueen),357.
Breeds hill (U.S.A.),148.
Bremen,362.
Brest,193,197,217,226,386,390,432.
Briand, Bishop,152.
Bridgewater, Duke of (Egerton),271.
Bridport, Viscount (Alexander Hood), admiral,376,387,390.
Brindley, James,271.
Bristol, Burke returned as member for,136;
rejected,212;
corporation of,186;
petition from,138.
Bristol, Earl of (George William Hervey), ambassador at Madrid,27-29,32.
Bristol, Earl of (Frederick Augustus Hervey), Bishop of Derry,289.
Broglie, Marshal de,14.
Brooklyn (Long Island), battle of,164,169.
Bruce, James,264.
Brueys, Admiral,416,417.
Brückenmühle, battle of,36.
Brune, French general,430,440.
Brunswick (Canada),167,169.
Brunswick, Charles, Duke of,154.
Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, Prince and Duke of,300,336,351,354,360.
Brunswick, Ferdinand, Prince of,14,36.
Brussels,360;
French occupation of,361.
Buccarelli, governor of Buenos Ayres,113,114.
Buckingham House. SeeLondon.
Buckingham, Marquis of. SeeTemple, Earl.
Buckinghamshire, Earl of (Hobart), Viceroy of Ireland,202.
Buckinghamshire, Lady,257.
Buenos Ayres, expedition against,38.
Bunbury, Sir Charles,257,260.
Bunker hill, battle of,148-150,152,155,185.
Burgoyne, Sir John, general,37,122,145,147,155,156,166,172-181,183,186,191.
Burke, Edmund, speech on American colonies,70,89,99;
opposed to parliamentary reform,105;
Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents, by,106,107,110,116-121,127-130,136,137,139,145,160,169,170,188,192,200-202;
economical reform,203,204,212,213,217,226;
paymaster of forces,229,240,246,247,249,250,253,255,261,265,266,268;
opposes Pitt's India bill,286,288,302-304,314,322,327;
Reflections on the French Revolution, by,329;
quarrel with Fox,330;
Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, by,330,333,339-342;
on war with France,347;
retires from parliament,366;
urges relief of catholic disabilities,367;
Letter on a Regicide Peace, by,382,385;
death of,396.
Burkersdorf, battle of,36.
Burney, Fanny (Madame d'Arblay),260.
Burns, Robert,260.
Bushy Run, Indians defeated at,58.
Bussy, Comte de,24-27.
Bute, Earl of (Stuart),5;
enters cabinet,8,11,12;
acts with Pitt,15;
his insincerity,17;
his peace policy,17;
his power secured,19-20;
secretary of state,20-23,26,28,29,31-34;
first lord of the treasury,35,42,43;
retires from office,44,45;
king's private adviser,45-49,51-52,65,66;
ceases to be,67,112,187.
Butler, John, colonel,178,194.
Byron, Commodore,263.
Cabinet, changes in the character of the,7-9;
system,7-9,33,229;
George III.'s first, how composed,8;
councils, reports and notices of,8,12,28-30,35,60,70,76,90,206,229,238,246,310,312,369,383,452;
sovereign ceases to preside over council,12.
Cadiz,199,211,388,390,395,439.
Cæsar's camp, capture of,350,351.
Caldiero,390.
Calonne, French minister,331.
Cambrai,360.
Cambridge (U.S.A.),143,148,151.
Camden,219;
battle of,220,223.
Camden, Charles, first Earl (Pratt), chief justice of the common pleas,47;
created Baron Camden,68,71;
chancellor,74,76,90,100,101;
dismissed from office,102,116;
lord president of the council,229,287,324.
Camden, John Jeffries, second Earl,370,385,412.
Campbell, Colonel,195.
Camperdown, battle of,398.
Campo Formio, treaty of,397,436,437.
Canada, conquest of,1,2,23,26,40,57;
Quebec act,129-131,133,146;
congress orders an invasion of,151,152,155,166,172,176;
France renounces all claim on,183;
Franklin proposes the cession of, to the Americans,239-240;
Pitt's Canada bill,329-330.
Canals,271.
Canning, George,372,396;
under secretary for foreign affairs,399,433,452,454.
Canterbury, Archbishops of, John Moore,451;
Thomas Seeker,60.
Cape Breton,23,24,26,40,129.
Cape de Verde islands,237.
Cape Fear,157.
Cape St. Vincent, battle of,388,389.
Caracciolo, Francesco,429.
Carhampton, Earl of. SeeLuttrell, Henry Lawes.
Carleton, Sir Guy,130,151,152,155,156,166-168;
resigns office,173;
at New York,228,242.
Carlisle, Earl of (Howard),202;
viceroy of Ireland,232,233,243,245,340.
Carlton house. SeeLondon.
Carmarthen, Earl of (Osborne), afterwards Duke of Leeds, foreign secretary,251,297,298,300,321,325;
resigns office,328,333.
Carnot, organiser of victories,353,354,396.
Caroline of Brunswick. SeeWales, Princess of.
Caroline of Denmark, queen, sister of George III.,119.
Carronades,233.
Carron ironworks,270.
Cassano, battle of,425.
Cassel,14;
surrender of,36.
Carteret, Philip, R.N.,263.
Cartwright, Edmund,273.
Castlebar, the race of,413.
Castlereagh, Viscount (Stewart), secretary of state for Ireland,447,449,450,452.
Catherine II., Empress of Russia,36;
alliance with Frederick of Prussia,74,75,114,208,209,296,297,299,324-328,331,338,349,351,374;
death of,384,390,441.
Cavendish, Lord John, chancellor of the exchequer,229,240,246,263.
Cawdor, Lord (Campbell),387.
Ceylon, Dutch settlements in, taken by the English,378.
Chait Singh (rájá of Benares),248,249.
Chambers, Sir William,262.
Chamblée (Canada),151.
Charlemont, Earl of (Caulfield),94,202,232,289.
Charles, Archduke,382,425,426,439.
Charles Emmanuel, King of Sardinia,349,354,425.
Charles VII., King of Denmark,441.
Charles III., King of Spain,24-25,114.
Charleston (U.S.A.),148,149,157,198,219,221,223.
Charlotte, Princess,373.
Charlotte Sophia, queen of George III.,22,313.
Charlotte (U.S.A.),220.
Chatham, first Earl of. SeePitt, William, the elder.
Chatham, second Earl of. SeePitt, John.
Chatterton, Thomas,259.
Chauvelin, French ambassador to England,324,336,337,339,340-343.
Chesterfield, Earl of (Stanhope, Philip Dormer),94,261.
Choiseul, Duc de,23-29,74,112,114,192.
Chouans, the,376.
Christian, Admiral,377.
Churchill, Charles, satirist,43.
Cider tax,43;
repealed,72.
Civil list settled,13;
arrears of,80,99,108,171,231,284;
Burke's proposed reform of,204,213;
curtailment of the expenditure of,238.
Clairfait, Austrian general,361,375.
Clare, Earl of. SeeFitzgibbon, John.
Clarkson, Thomas, philanthropist,295.
Clerk of Eldin, naval tactician,235.
Clinton, Sir Henry,145,149,157,164,168,174,175,178-181,193-195,197-198,215,216,218-226,228.
Clive, Robert, Baron Clive,1;
returns to England,76;
succeeded in India by Vansittart,77;
made governor of Bengal,78;
returns to England,79;
parliamentary inquiry held into the conduct of,122;
death of,123,248.