Vereker, Colonel,414.
Vergennes, Comte de,181-183,215,239,241.
Versailles, treaty of,236,241,244,292,296.
Villaret-Joyeuse, rear-admiral,364-366.
Vinegar Hill, battle of,409-411.
Viri, Comte de, Sardinian minister,17,20,38.
Vorontsov (Woronzow), Count, Russian ambassador,394,440.
Voltaire,315.
Volunteers, Irish,202,232,289.
Wages, agricultural labourers,273,276,435;
bill for the regulation of,378;
combinations to raise,277;
fixed by statute,276;
law against combinations of workmen,434;
sailors,392;
weavers,272,273.
Wakefield, Gilbert,434.
Waldeck, Prince of,154.
Waldegrave, John, third Earl,4,119.
Waldegrave, Maria, Countess of (afterwards Duchess of Gloucester),119.
Wales, George, Prince of (afterwards George IV.),38,246,283,307,308-312,313-315,372,373,406,453.
Wales, Prince of (George II.'s son),3.
Wales, Princess of, Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George, Prince of Wales,373.
Wales, Princess Dowager of (George III.'s mother), her character and influence on George III.,3,4,21,42,51,65,112;
death of,119.
Wallis, Samuel, discoverer,263.
Wall, Richard, General (Spanish minister),27-30,32,74.
Walmoden, General,362.
Walpole, George, colonel,404.
Walpole, Horace,52,75,260-262,267.
Walpole, Sir Robert,6,43,57,191,292.
Warburton, William, Bishop of Gloucester,50.
Warrants, general,46;
declared illegal,47,52,66,72.
Warren, Richard, Dr.,313.
Warren, Sir John, admiral,376,415.
Washington, George,133;
American commander-in-chief,146,147,150,154,155,164-169,173-176,180,186,193,194,197,198,214-216,218,219,223-226,402.
Waterloo,361.
Wattignies,354.
Watt, James,270,358.
Wedderburn, Alexander(afterwards Lord Loughborough and Earl of Rosslyn),107;
solicitor-general,115,123,126,170;
attorney-general,191;
created Lord Loughborough,207,309,333;
lord chancellor,341,371;
his treachery,451,452,455.
Wedgwood, Josiah,270,290.
Wellesley, Sir Arthur (afterwards Duke of Wellington),420.
Werela, peace made between Russia and Sweden at,326.
Wesley, John,264.
Westminster election of 1785. SeeLondon.
Westmorland, Earl of (Fane), lord-lieutenant of Ireland,366-369,371,452.
West Point,197,215.
Wexford, rebellion in,409,412.
Weymouth, Viscount (Thynne), secretary of state,87,89,90,95,96,102;
resigns office,115;
again in office,159,203.
Whately, Thomas,125-127.
Wheble, printer,117.
Whitbread, Samuel,378,435.
Whiteboys,92.
White Plains, battle of,167,224.
Whitworth, Sir Charles (afterwards Lord), British ambassador at St. Petersburg,421,440;
sent to Copenhagen,441.
Wickham, William, British ambassador at Berne,383.
Wilberforce, William, philanthropist,254,265,287,295,296,323,324,372,384,404.
Wilhelmsthal, battle of,36.
Wilkes, John,39,43;
case of,46,47,50-52;
returned for Middlesex,95-98,104,108,117,118,135,142,170,206,231,312.
William V., Prince of Orange, stadholder of Holland,298,299,300,362,430,431.
Willis, Francis, Dr.,310,312,313,453.
Wilmington (U.S.A.),222.
Wilson, Richard,262.
Windham, William,258,318,335,340,341,382,396,452.
Windsor, borough of,212.
Winnsborough (U.S.A.),221.
Wood, John, architect,262.
Wood, Robert, under-secretary of state, sued by Wilkes,47.
Wordsworth, William,260.
Worms, surrender of,337.
Wray, Sir Christopher,283.
Wright, cruel treatment of,408.
Wurmser, Austrian general,354,381,390.
Würtemberg, Duke of, subsidiary treaty between England and the,436.
Wyatt, James, architect,262.
York (Edward), Duke of (brother of George III.),4.
York (Frederick), Duke of (son of George III.),309,311,314,346,350,351,353,361,362;
appointed field-marshal,366,390,391,430.
York, petition from,203.
Yorke, Charles,8,102,130.
Yorke, Sir Joseph,209.
Yorktown,224;
surrender at,225,226.
Young, Arthur, agriculturist,259,274-276.
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