i. 17, 19;

parliamentary witticism, 21; puns, _ibid._

Cumberland, H. R. H. William duke of, political connexion with Lord Sandwich, i. 2; affairs in Flanders, 2; political and treasonable attacks on, 9; restoration of military discipline, 38; jealousy of the Prince of Wales, 72; behaviour on his demise, 78; popular suspicions, 98; affair of the regency, and rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, 99; his character, 100, et seq.; quarrels with the Pelhams on the regency business, 104, 105; the king’s feelings towards him expressed in conversation with Fox, 157; accident in hunting, 212; judicious conduct in regard to parties, 240; gives his private encouragement to the opposition to the Saxon treaty, 250; takes offence at the bill for colonizing the forfeited estates, 262; forms connexion with the Duke of Bedford, 263; his advice to Fox on the ministerial arrangements after Pelham’s death, 384; injudicious conduct of the ministry towards him in the war in America, 401; his sentiments on a projected change of ministry in 1754, 419; placed at the head of the regency, on the king’s visit to Hanover,