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INDEX.

NOTE.-The dates affixed to the names, thus (), represent in the case of particular events the period of the occurrence, and in other casca
include the years during which the persons named figure in this history.

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Cavendish's creed (1769), 71

Changes in the government (1760), 2
Channing's, Dr., letter (1837), 148

Charles Edward Stuart (1761-1789), 8, 407

Charlestown, attack on (1776), 143

capture of (1780), 259

Charlotte, queen (1761), her family pride, narrow education, amiabi.
lity, and domestic tastes, 5; arrival at St. James's, 8; her
marriage and dowry, 14

Chatham, Pitt created earl of (1761-1778), 51, 56, 57, 62, 63, 202, 203
earl, proceedings of (1766), 52, 53

China, embassy of Lord Macartney, 599
Choiseul, duke of (1761), 8; (1791), 588
Churchill, Charles (1762), 15

Clinton, Sir Henry (1777), 185

Clive, lord (1763-1765), 89, 95, 338-342
Coalition between lord North and Fox (1783), 315
Colonists, excitement of the American (1769), 71
Commissions of judges (1761), 4

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Campbell, colonel, 69

Canada, expedition against (1775), 134

Canadians (1774), 111

Canterbury, archbishop of (1760), 3

Cape St. Vincent, action of (1780), 225

Carmagnole dance, 618

Caroline Matilda, princess, marriage of (1764), 38

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Emerson, William, Rev., his description of Washington's camp | Grattan (1785), 328, 329
(1775), 129

Emigrants at Coblentz, 585

England, plan for reducing, found (1776), 162
English garrison, surrender of (1782). 291

government, consternation of (1776), 161

in New York (1776), 154

prisoners, loss of three hundred (1777), 168

Eon, D', Chevalier (1776), 162

Falkland islands (1770), 82

Fancy ball given to General Howe, 214
Fauchet, Abbe, 581, 586

Favras, trial of (1790), 483

Fayette, La (1778), 212, 213, 221, 230, 263
Ferdinand of Brunswick (1761), 9
Festival in the Champ de Mars, 610
Fisheries, Irish, Newfoundland (1779), 236
Florida Blanca, Spanish minister (1781), 288
Fontainebleau, peace of, signed (1762), 122
Forde, colonel (1763), 24

Fort Augusta (1781), 286

St. Philip, surrender of (1782), 291
Wintermoots, 219

Foulon, fate of (1789), 458

Fox, lord Holland (1763), 28

Charles James (1774-1791), 106, 273, 274, 320, 321, 512, 592

Francis, Sir Philip, 592

Friends, society of, petition presented by, for the abolition of the

slave trade (1783), 316

Fullarton, Mr., M.P. for Plympton (1780), 243

Fuller, Mr. Rose (1769), 68, 106

Gage, general (1768), 66

Gallica Vindicia, 524

Gaspee, the, burning of (1773), 103

Geneva, proposal of citizens of, to settle in Ireland (1786), 321

Geneviève, St., church of (1791), 537

Great Mogul (1765), 340

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Genlis, marquis de Sillery, husband of madame de Genlis (1789), Jay, Mr., 148, 154

473

Gentle shepherd, the (1763), 27
George II., funeral of (1760), 3

III. (1760), personal appearance, 2; phrenological develop-
ment, 2; duplicity when told of George II.'s death, 2; his
intellectual capacity, 2; his opening address to parliament, 3;
his marriage with Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1761), 5;
his moral character, 5; flirtation with Lady Sarah Lennox, 5;
affair with Hannah Lightfoot, 5; his reputed marriage with
her (1759), 6; his abduction of the young quakeress (1759), 6;
his troubles in consequence, 8; the leading causes of his in-
sanity, 8; cause of his passing the Royal Marriage Act, 8; coro-
nation, 8; first attack of insanity (1764), 40; provides for a
regency (1764), 40; asks for half a million to liquidate his
debts (1769), 70; second attack of insanity (1788), 394;
recovery (1789), 399; threatened departure for Hanover (1784),
324; endeavours to mediate between the Russians and Austrians,

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(1777-1792), 170, 171, 212, 213, 466-468, 471–47
489, 491, 501, 533, 534, 566, 567, 570, 611, 612, 622
Lake George, 182, 183

Langdale, Mr., burning of his spirit stores (1780), 251

La Place, captain (1775), 123

Laurens, Henry (1782), 290

La Vendée, resistance of, to the Revolution, 581; agitation by the
Priests, 584

Lawes, Luttrell Henry (1769), 70

Lee, Richard Henry (1776), 146, 215

Legacy, George II.'s (1760), 3

Leger, St. (1777), 180

Legge dismissed (1761), 4

Letters of a farmer (1767), 64

Leveson Gower, captain (1779), 222

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Lord Howe's motion to increase the half pay of naval officers during Norton, Sir Fletcher (1780), 243

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627

Penn, grandson of William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania (1775),

132

Perouse, La (1782), 306

Peter III. (1762), 14, 16

Peterborough, bishop of (1775), 131

Marie Antoinette, queen of France (1789-1790), 432, 468, 470, Petion, 620, 621

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Philadelphia, meeting of congress at (1774), 111

Pitt, William, lord Chatham (1760-1778), 4, 10-13, 42—44, 47, 50,
51, 56, 57, 202

William (1786), his plan for reduction of the national debt,
333, 334; opposed by Fox, 592

Poland, division of (1772), 98, 603, 604
Pompadour, madame de (1761), 9, 83
Pondicherry, investment of (1760), 26
surrender of (1761), 26

Poniatowsky (1772), 98

Portland, duke of (1767), 59

Portugal, king of (1762), 17
Portuguese army (1762), 17

Pratt, chief-justice (1764), 34
Prescott, general (1777), 171

Priests, marriage of, 587

Priestley, Dr. (1774-1791), 105, 525-530

Prince of Wales (1782), 316, 381-383

Princess dowager of Wales (1760-1772), her exclusion from the

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Legislative Assembly constituted, 573; first meeting of, Republican party (1778), 218

579; question of war debated, 588, 589; dissolved, 615

Necker (1789), 420-422, 429

Netherlands (1789), 413

Newburgh, lord (1788), 390

Resolution of an Indian princess, 345

Revolution, French, review of its causes (1789), 416–421

Richmond, duke of (1775), 117

Rights, Bill of (1772), 88

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