ii. 10;

appointed master of the horse, 19; attacked by the rioters on the Militia Bill, iii. 41.

Douglas, Dr., the opponent of Lander, assists the Earl of Bath in a political letter, iii. 250.

Drury Lane Theatre, representation of Othello at, produces an adjournment of the House of Commons, i. 61.

Dublin, tumults at, in consequence of a projected Irish union, in 1759, iii. 240.

Duke, the; see _Cumberland_.

Dukedoms refused by the Earls of Northampton and Aylesbury, and why, ii. 272.

Duncannon, Lord, his share in Irish politics, ii. 19.

Dunkirk man-of-war, extraordinary chance in Hawke’s action, iii. 232.

Duplin, Lord, his share in the Newcastle administration, i. 388.

East Indies, affairs in 1757, iii. 57; 1758, 90, 217.

Edgecombe family, their opposition to the Sandwich interests in Cornwall, ii. 11; and first forms a Tory party, 12.

Edward, Prince, engages in the naval service, iii. 126, 133.

Egerton, Lady Sophia, most extraordinary anecdote of, respecting Byng’s execution, ii. 371.

Egmont, Lord, opposes Address in 1751, i. 8; suspicion of treason, 9; parliamentary discussion, 11; political intrigues in Westminster, 14; opposes the Mutiny Bill, 35, 40; anecdote of him, 35; curious opposition manœuvre on death of the Prince of Wales, 80, 81; proposes to Lord Bolingbroke the renewal of feudal tenures as a popular act, 209; ingenious speech on army estimates, 213; speech against the Address, and opposition to the Mutiny Bill of 1753, 294, 295; makes a ridiculous mistake in opposing the Mutiny Bill, 421; is attacked by Charles Townshend, _ib._; copy of the constitutional queries ascribed to him, i. 9, 427.

Egremont, Earl of, moves address of condolence on the death of the Prince of Wales, i. 80; declines to accept the seals on Pitt’s dismissal, iii. 2.

Epigram on Admiral Vernon, i. 100, 101.

Election Committees in the new parliament of 1754, i. 407.

Elections, general, policy of France respecting, in regard to the Pretender’s cause, i. 122; purity of, infringed by the people themselves, 355.

Elijah’s Mantle, a political allusion, borrowed by Walpole from a poem by Sir C. H. Williams, i. 230.

Elliot, Commodore, engages and takes Thurot and squadron off the Isle of Man, iii. 265.

Ellis, Welbore, political character, and parallel with Lord Barrington,