ii. 33, 34;

occupied by the French, its neutrality offered by them, but rejected by the king, iii. 12; occupied by the French in 1758, 104.

Hanoverian troops sent for, to guard against invasion, ii. 186.

Harcourt, Lord, appointed governor of Prince George, i. 86; punctilious nicety in the education of Prince George, 284; his loss of royal favour, 289, et seq.; his speech on the charges against the prince’s tutors, 323.

Hard labour in the dock-yards proposed, to commute transportation, i. 255.

Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor, draws up the Regency Bill; its despotic character, i. 115; his speech, 120; political character and anecdotes, 158, 159; reasons for his conduct on the affair of the regency, 160; political intimacy with the Duke of Newcastle, 161; his speech in reply to the Duke of Bedford, on the Scottish Colonization Bill, 268; his conduct in the affair of Fawcett’s accusation against the Solicitor-General, for drinking the Pretender’s health, 309; speech on the affair of the charges against the prince’s tutors, 321; his speech on passing the Marriage Bill, 348; resigns the seals on Pitt’s coming into administration in 1756,