ii. 19;

estimates on the opening of the war, 67, 86; affairs of the Militia Bill, of new-raised troops, of foreign troops employed, 156-204; camps formed and disturbances with the foreign troops, 248; remarkable court of inquiry connected with General Fowke and Byng’s affair, 285; war in Germany, iii. 147; extraordinary commissions granted, and debated on in Parliament, 233.

Army, Saxon, account of, ii. 410.

Articles of War, Naval, debates on the 12th, in the House of Commons, in Byng’s case, ii. 318, et seq.

Ascendency, Protestant, in Ireland, in 1752, and before, i. 278, et seq.

Ashton, Rev. Mr., a quaint preacher, anecdotes of, iii. 98, 99.

Atcheson, Sir Archibald, political insignificance in the Irish House of Commons, iii. 73.

Austrians, defeat of, in the campaign of 1760, iii. 294, et seq.

Avarice, whimsical anecdote of, in George II., i. 176.

Ayscough, Dr., anecdotes of his tutorship of Prince George, i. 80.

Bacon, Lord, observations on, i. 374.

Baker, Alderman, a contractor, affair of, ii. 304.

Barnard, Sir John, political and civic character, i. 45, 46; proposes a sinking fund, 218, 255; moves a repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369.

Barri, Madame du, anecdotes and intrigues, iii. 245.

Barrington, Lord, moves a diminished number of seamen, i. 12; proposes an increased vote of seamen, 211; his political character, and parallel with Ellis, ii. 141, 142; justifies the application of the 12th article of war to Byng’s case, in the House of Commons, 320.

Bath, Lord, his political apostasy vindicated by Lord Egmont, i. 36; parliamentary conduct on the committal of the Regency Bill, 116, 117, et seq.; joins the Bedford Opposition on the Scottish Colonization Bill, 272; originates the Marriage Bill in the House of Lords, and why, 337; publishes his celebrated letter to two great men, iii. 250.

Bathurst, Henry, character of, i. 96.

Bavaria, treaty with, for securing the peace of Germany, i. 8; subsidy to, 48, 49.

Beckford, Alderman, opposes the Regency Bill, i. 153; extraordinary declaration, caused by his jealousy of the army, 307; attends at the first meeting of the Tories, at the Horn Tavern, as a political party, ii. 13; absurd boasting, 95; opposite opinions of the Commons, and of Pitt, upon his merits, iii. 177, 178.

BEDFORD, Duke of, disagreement with the Duke of Newcastle, i. 1; political and sporting connexion with Lord Sandwich, 3; political duplicity on the Naturalization Bill, 55; increase of popularity, 61; fails of support in the Nova Scotia affair, 69; interferes with the establishment of the young princes, on the death of the Prince of Wales, 79; conduct on the Regency question, on the demise of the Prince of Wales, 99; proposed opposition to the Bill prevented by the gout, 122; political neglect of, by his coadjutors in the Cabinet, 161; party intrigues of the Pelhams after the Prince’s demise, 183, 184, 185; his political character, 186; change of ministry and resignation of office, 194; spirited and judicious conduct towards the Duke of Newcastle, 193; conduct in opposition to Walpole, 241; his intended quiescent politics on the meeting of Parliament after the recess, 242; but is led into Opposition on the Saxon Treaty, _ibid._; speaks against it in the Lords, 244; political connexion formed with the Duke of Cumberland, 263; opposes the Bill for the colonization of the Scottish forfeited estates, 264; interferes in the charges against the Prince’s tutors, 309, et seq., 313; opposition to the Marriage Bill, 347; projects of re-union with the Court party, 414; receives proposals from the Lyttelton party on the part of Ministers, but rejects them, and sends for Pitt, 416; declining power of the Duke of Newcastle, and overtures from Fox,