i. 333;

executed, 353.

Campbell, A. H., parliamentary conduct and anecdotes, i. 19.

Campbell, Mr. Hume, is brought forward again by the Duke of Newcastle in support of the German treaties, ii. 107, 108; quarrel with Pitt, 112; pensioned, 143; anecdote of his political modesty on a change of ministers, iii. 23.

Canada, conquest of, iii. 169, 219.

Candour, political and paternal, of Horace Walpole, and why, i. 237, et seq.

Cape Breton taken, iii. 133.

Caprice, public, various instances of, i. 358.

Cardigan, Lord, appointed governor of Windsor Castle, i. 255.

Cards and Dice taxed, ii. 177.

Caricatures on cards invented by George Townsend, on Byng’s affair, ii. 228.

Caroline, Queen, anecdote of, and Lord Chesterfield, i. 52; her influence over the King, and politic juggling with Sir Robert Walpole, 65.

Caroline, Princess, death, and anecdotes, iii. 82, 83.

Carpenter, Lord, disgraceful conduct of, on the Westminster petition, i. 26.

Carrickfergus taken by Thurot’s squadron, iii. 264.

Carter, Mr. (Master of the Rolls in Ireland), his character and factious politics, i. 281, 282.

Chairmen and footmen of the metropolis, Colonel Hale offers to lead them against the best troops of France, iii. 234.

Charles III., King of Spain, observations on, and character, iii. 205, 210.

Chatham, Lord, vide _Pitt_.

Cherbourg, capture of, iii. 133.

Cheselden, the surgeon, anecdote of, i. 177.

Chesterfield, Lord, brings in a bill for the reformation of the calendar, i. 50, 51; anecdotes and political intrigues, 51, et seq.; whimsical and courtly anecdote of, 177, 178; engages to negotiate between Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, at the Princess Dowager’s instigation, iii. 30.

Cholmondeley, Earl of, character and anecdotes, i. 173.

Circular letters to members of parliament, censured in the House, ii. 63.

Clandestine marriages, inactivity of the bench of Bishops on a proposed bill to restrain, i. 146.

Clarke, Mr., a military adventurer, plans the siege of Rochfort, iii. 43.

Cleland, Mr., secretary to the Admiralty, his shameful conduct on Byng’s affair, ii. 295.

Clive, Lord, early military services in India, iii. 57, 90.

Closter Seven, convention of, iii. 59.

Cobham, Lord, speech and party interest on the Regency Bill, i. 134, 135; political character, 136.

Cobham party described, i. 136.

Coke, Lord, parliamentary conduct on the Westminster petition, i. 16, 20; clears the gallery, and quarrels with Speaker Onslow, 27, 28; his political character, 208; moves the re-committal of Murray for contempt to the House, _ibid._; hated by the Scotch, and why, 209, 259; opposes the bill for purchasing the forfeited estates, _ibid._

Colchester petition, proceedings on, alarm the Newcastle party in the House, i. 409.

Colley Cibber, death and character, iii. 81, 82.

Cologne, Elector of, joins France in opposition to British interests, i. 81.

Colonies totally neglected by the Duke of Newcastle, when Secretary of State, i. 396.

Comines, character of, as an historian, i. 375.

COMMONS, House of, session of 1751, i. 8, et seq.; affair of the Westminster petition against Lord Trentham, 14, et seq.; contumacy of Mr. Murray, 29, 30; libels against the House, 31; inefficient opposition to the three shilling land-tax, 32; opposition to the Mutiny Bill, 39; attack on General Anstruther, 42; committee for the suppression of vice and reform of the police, 44; proposed subsidy to Bavaria, 48; debate on Murray’s close confinement, 49, 50; debates on the Naturalization Bill, 54; debate on Anstruther’s business, 56; the House adjourns to see Othello at Drury Lane, 61; proceedings on the Gin Bill, 66, 67; relaxation in proceedings against Murray, 84; Naturalization Bill thrown out, 92; proceedings on a breach of privilege, 95; further proceedings on Anstruther’s case, 106; Habeas Corpus granted by the King’s Bench for Murray, 114; he is remanded, and the committal of the House acknowledged to be valid, 115; question of privilege, as to members on the Prince’s establishment, negatived, 116; the Regency Bill returned from the Lords, and proceedings thereon, 122, et seq.; Regency Bill passes the House, 153; close of the session, release and petty triumph of Murray, 200, 201; a new session, 208; Murray remanded to Newgate by the House, _ibid._; debate on the same, 209; reward voted for the apprehension of Murray, who had absconded, 212; army estimates proposed by Mr. Fox, 213; land-tax proposed by Pelham, accompanied by an extraordinary system of national policy, 218; adjournment, and cessation of opposition, 228; Walpole’s rise and fall by that House, and why, 232, 233; House meets in 1752, 241; takes up the affair of the Saxon treaty, 242, et seq.; motion against subsidiary treaties in time of peace, by Lord Harley, 254; debate thereon, _ibid._; state of parties in the House, 263; bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, 264, et seq.; prorogation and extraordinary speech of the Speaker to the King, against the management of Scotland, 275; session of 1753 opens, 293; engaged in the affairs of Nova Scotia, 295; affair of the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.; affair of the Jew Naturalization Bill, 357, 362; proposed repeal of the Plantation Act, 364; motion for repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369; people look towards it on the ministerial difficulties arising from Pelham’s demise, 383; debates on the opening war of 1756, 403; alarm of the ministerial majority at Pitt’s spirited attack on election bribery, 408, 409; debate on the army estimates, 410; debate on the Mutiny Bill, 420; debate respecting adjournment on anniversary of King Charles’s martyrdom, ii. 3; debate on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill, 4; a division of the House falsified by Mr. Potter, 11; first appearance of the modern application of the distinctions of Whig and Tory, 12, et seq.; tempestuous opposition of Pitt to the Fox and Bedford coalition, the German treaties, &c., 55; sit till five in the morning, the longest debate then on record, 49, 133; complaint respecting circular letters, 63; debates on the votes for seamen, 67; debates on a Prize Bill, 78; charges of bribery by France, 82; debates on the army estimates, 86; committee moved on the militia question, 97; taking of notes by strangers noticed by Hume Campbell, 108; close of a long debate on the German treaties, 133; repeal of all the old militia acts to prepare for a new bill, 152; debates on Prevot’s regiment, 156; Ways and Means brought forward by Sir George Lyttelton, 176; debates on employing foreign troops, 184, et seq.; Militia Bill voted without a division, 191; vote of credit of one million opposed, _ibid._; debates on the Prussian treaty, 197; Pitt’s first Parliament, 276; ordnance estimates and Militia Bill, 301, et seq.; Byng’s sentence announced to the House by a messenger from the Admiralty, 312, et seq.; Pitt’s first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand money for Hanover, 313; further debates on Byng’s sentence, 320, et seq.; royal message, bill for absolving the court-martial from their oaths of secrecy; passes, but lost in the Lords, 350-366; inquiry into the loss of Minorca, iii. 7, et seq.; debates upon the vote of a million, 16; debates upon the Habeas Corpus, 103, 112; estimates of the year 1759, 176; debates respecting officers commissioned vacating seats, 233; debates on army estimates, 234; affair of Sackville’s arrest and court-martial, as matter of privilege, 265, 266.

Compton, Sir Spencer, vide _Wilmington_.

Conflans, Monsieur, defeated by Sir Edward Hawke, iii. 231, 232.

Constitution of Britain, political view of, iii. 112-115.

Contades, Marshal, loses the battle of Minden, iii. 191, 199.

Contest, a weekly political satire on Pitt’s coming into administration, ii. 276.

Conway, Colonel H. S., his political debut and martial bravery, i. 41; his parliamentary quickness and character compared with Charles Townshend, 341; is appointed secretary in Ireland solely from his private merits, ii. 3; military promptitude in the affair of the Rochfort expedition,