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Hartley, David, M.P.,160.

Harvey, Bagenal,409,410-412.

Harvey, Sir H., admiral,389.

Hastings, Warren, governor-general of British India,122,236,237;

recalled,247,248,249;

resigns governor-generalship,302;

charges against,303;

trial of,304,305,322,323.

Havana, British capture of,36,37,40-41.

Hawke, Sir Edward, admiral (afterwards Lord Hawke),15,75,113,115.

Hawkesbury, Lord. SeeJenkinson, Charles.

Heliopolis, defeat of Turks at,432.

Henley, Lord (afterwards Earl of Northington), lord keeper,8;

lord chancellor,35,46,68;

resigns office,73;

president of the council,74,76,87.

Henry, Patrick, American,61,133,142,146.

Henry, Prince (brother of Frederick of Prussia),14.

Hermione, Spanish ship captured,38;

frigate, mutiny on board the,391.

Herschel, Sir William, astronomer royal,263.

Hertford, Earl of (Seymour),52.

Hervilly, Comte d',376.

Hesse Cassel, landgrave of,154,300.

Hexham riots. SeeRiots.

Hillsborough, Earl of (Hill), president of board of trade,49;

secretary of state,87,88-91,124,203.

Hillsborough (U.S.A.),222.

Hobskirk hill, battle of,223.

Hoche, French general,354,376,377,386,398.

Hohenlinden, battle of,439,440.

Holdernesse, Lord (D'Arcy), secretary of state,8,20.

Holland, Baron. SeeFox, Henry.

Holland, province of, treaties with,209;

French party in,297-299;

invaded by Prussians,300;

invaded by French,362;

English and Russian expedition to,429-431.

SeeUnited Provinces.

Home, John, dramatist,258.

Hondschoote, battle of,353.

Honduras,41;

English expelled from,196;

English settle in,318.

Hood, Alexander. SeeBridport, Viscount.

Hood, Sir Samuel (afterwards Viscount Hood),218,224,226,227,235,238,283-284,306,352,355,356,363,375.

Hood, Samuel,417.

Hoppner, John,262.

Horne, John. SeeTooke, Horne.

Horton, Mrs. (becomes Duchess of Cumberland),119.

Hotham, Sir William, admiral,375,376,381.

Houchard, French general,353.

Howard, John, philanthropist,267.

Howe, Richard, Earl, admiral,138,145,163,164;

"Black Dick,"194,236;

first lord of the admiralty,251;

retires,306,352,364-366,392,400.

Howe, Sir William, general (afterwards Viscount Howe),145,149,150,153-155,163-169,172-176,179,181,184-185.

Hubertsburg, peace of,42.

Hughes, Sir Edward, admiral,237,238.

Humbert, French general,413-415.

Hume, David, historian,261.

Hunt, captain, R.N.,113.

Hunter, John,263.

Huntingdon, Selina, Countess of,264,265.

Hutchinson, general,413.

Hutchinson, Thomas (governor of Massachusetts),91,109,124;

letters by,125-126;

recalled,129.

Hutton, James,263.

Impey, Sir Elijah,304.

Income tax, first imposed by W. Pitt,434,435.

Indiaand East India Company,2,14;

position of the East India Company,76;

Nawáb of Bengal deposed by the council,77;

revolt and reconquest of Bengal,77;

Mír Kásim made Nawáb of Bengal,77;

battle of Baxár,78;

heavy debts of the East India Company,78-79,81;

revolt in Mysore,80;

famine in Bengal,81;

North's regulating act,121,122;

Warren Hastings appointed governor-general,122;

Clive virtually acquitted,122;

act authorising the East India Company to export its surplus stock of tea to America,126;

Pondicherry taken,196;

Haidar makes war on the English,196;

Maráthá war,236-238;

Tipú Sahib succeeds Haidar Alí,238;

peace made,238;

charter of the East India Company renewed,247;

Hastings recalled,247;

work of Hastings,248,249;

Dundas's India bill,249;

Fox's India bills,249-251;

Pitt's India bill,252,286;

Warren Hastings resigns office,302;

Cornwallis appointed governor-general,305;

Tipú attacks the Rájá of Travancore,305;

Pitt's declaratory act,306;

revival of French influence,419;

fall of Seringapatam and death of Tipú,420;

Lord Wellesley in,443.

Indians, North American, invade colonies,57-58;

employment of, in war,140,144,176-178,186;

border warfare with,194.

Industrial revolution,269-273,277-279.

Ireland, condition of, in 1760,91-94;

absentee tax proposed,200;

linen manufacture,201;

restrictions on trade,201;

volunteers,202;

trade opened,202;

legislative independence conceded,232,233;

agitation for parliamentary reform,288,289;

Pitt's trade propositions,289,291;

question of the regency,315;

political condition in 1795,367;

United Irishmen Society founded,367;

catholics enfranchised,368;

Fitzwilliam, lord-lieutenant,369;

recalled,370;

Camden, lord-lieutenant,370;

complete relief rejected,370;

Maynooth college founded,385;

religious riots,385;

Orange Society founded,385;

attempted French invasion,386;

intended invasion by Dutch fleet,397-398;

condition of, in 1798,404,405;

conspiracy in Ulster,405-407;

methods of enforcing disarmament,407-408;

rebellions in Kildare and Carlow,408;

in Wexford,409;

defeat of rebels at Arklow,411;

surrender of Wexford,412;

Humbert's invasion,413;

other attempts on,414;

union proposed,445,446;

catholic support,446,447;

extent of corruption,448,449;

act of union,450;

catholic emancipation refused,451,452.

Irnham, Lord (Luttrell) afterwards Earl Carhampton,119.

Ismail captured,327.

Jaffa captured,418,419.

Jamaica,181,227,234,235.

Jassy, peace made between Russia and Turkey at,328.

Jay, John, American minister,378.

Jemappes, Austrians defeated at,337.

Jenkinson, Charles (afterwards Lord Hawkesbury and Earl of Liverpool),

president of board of trade, secretary at war,202,281,323,328,396,452.

Jenner, Dr. Edward,263.

Jersey, attacked by French,196,211.

Jervis, Sir John, admiral (afterwards Earl of St. Vincent),363,364,381,382,388-390,395,400,416,426,429.

John, Archduke of Austria,439.

Johnson, Dr.,38,255,261,262.

Johnson, Sir John,178,194.

Johnston, general,410.

Jones, Paul,197,209.

Jordan, Mrs., actress,258.

Joseph II.of Austria,296-298;

declares war against the Turks,325;

death of,325.

Joubert, French general,390,425.

Jourdan, French general,353,361,375,382,423,425.

June, battle of "the glorious first" of,364,366.

Junius, letters of,99-101,112,116,247.

Kalb, Baron de,182.

Keith, Lord, admiral (George Keith Elphinstone),429,432,439.

Kemble, John,258.

Kempenfeldt, admiral,227.

Kenyon, Lloyd, Lord Kenyon, chief justice,257,371,444.

Keppel, Augustus, admiral (afterwards Viscount Keppel),192,193,212,213;

first lord of the admiralty,229,240;

resigns,245.

Killala, French at,413-415.

"King's friends,"10,68,107,110,172,281.

Kirkwall,284.

Kléber, French general,432.

Korsakov, Russian general,426.

Kosciusko, Thaddeus,182.

Kray, Austrian general,436.

Kutchuk Kainardji, treaty of,296.

Lafayette, Marquis de,182,223,225,316.

Lake, General,406,411,414.

Land tax,83,113,162;

commutation of,403.

Landrecies, capitulation of,360.

Lángara, Don Juan de, Spanish admiral,199,352.

Langrishe, Sir Hercules, Burke's letter to,367.

Lansdowne, Marquis of. SeeShelburne, Lord.

Lauderdale, Earl of (Maitland),359.

Laurence, French,447.

Laurens, Henry, American envoy,210.

La Vendée,351,354,432.

Lawrence, Thomas, painter,262.

Lee, Charles, American general,167,168.

Lee, Henry, American general,221,223.

Lee, William, American envoy,210.

Leeds, Duke of. SeeCarmarthen, Earl of.

Legge, Henry Bilson, chancellor of exchequer,8,20.

Leinster, Duke of (Fitzgerald),202,386.

Lennox, Lady Sarah,21,121.

Leoben, preliminaries of peace signed at,390,397.

Leopold II.of Austria,325,326,330,331;

death of,334,343.

Le Quesnoy,351,353,354.

Leslie, General,220,221.

L'Estrange, Colonel,409,410.

Lewis, "Monk,"260.

Lexington, skirmish at,140,141,143-146.

Libel, law of,115;

Fox's bill,324.

Liberty of the press. SeePress, liberty of the.

Ligonier, Viscount (afterwards Earl),8,30.

Lille, negotiations at,396,397,400.

Lincoln, American general,195,198.

Linen manufacture in Ireland. SeeIreland.

Lippe-Bückeburg, Count of, general,37,145.

Liverpool, Earl of. SeeJenkinson, Charles.

Liverpool, petition from,138.

Loano, battle of,376.

London:—

Bloomsbury Square,66.

Buckingham House,54.

Carlton House,11,307,309.

Clubs: at Wildman's,43;

at Cocoa-Tree Tavern,110;

White's,253;

Brooks's,253,256.

Copenhagen Fields, meeting in,378.

Correspondence Society,335.

Petitions from citizens of,138,158,159,186,193,435.

St. George's Fields: riots,96;

meeting in,378.

Spitalfields riots,66.

Westminster election,283,284,322;

representation of,286.

Long Island (N.Y.),164,165,185,187.

Long Island (S.C.),157.

Longwy, captured,337.

Loughborough, Earl. SeeWedderburn, Alexander.

Louis XIV.,433.

Louis XV.,114.

Louis XVI.,181,316,320,321,324.

Louis XVII.,352,363.

Louis XVIII. SeeProvence, Count of.

L'Ouverture, Toussaint,424.

Lowther, M.P.,160.

Lowther, Sir James (afterwards Earl of Lonsdale),87,213,256.

Loyalists (American),134,135,329;

treatment of,242.

Lucas, Charles, Irish politician,94.

Lucknow,249.

Ludgershall, borough of,94.

Lunéville, congress at,438,439;

treaty of,440.

Luttrell, Henry Lawes(second Earl Carhampton), colonel,97,100,112,119,405.

Luttrell, M.P.,160.

Luxemburg,351.

Lyons, siege of,355,356.

Lyttelton, Lord,67.

Macartney, George, Lord,395.

Macaulay, Zachary,324.

Macdonald, French general,425,427,440.

Machinery and steam and water power. SeeEngland.

Mack (Austrian general),360,422.

Mackenzie, James Stuart (brother of the Earl of Bute),67.

Mackintosh, Sir James, hisVindiciæ Gallicæ,329.

Macklin, Charles, actor,258.

Maclean, Colonel,152.

Madras,196,237,238;


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