iii. 135;

gallantry in Hawke’s action, 232.

Hume of Munderson, Mr., a furious jacobite in Scotland, yet patronized, i. 266.

Hutchinson, Hely, his Irish politics, iii. 245, 246.

Hutton, Archbishop, i. 148; promoted to Canterbury, ii. 374.

Invasion of England threatened by a French armament in the Isle of Rhée, ii. 20; threats of, by France, in 1759, iii. 186; general plan of, defeated by Hawke’s victory, 232; French measures pursued in Ireland in aid of it, 239, 244.

Ireland, removal of Lord Harrington from viceroyship, i. 5; appointment thereto of the Duke of Dorset, 5; judicious observations of Lord Hillsborough on the Protestant settling of mountain districts, 260; affairs in 1752, and history of the factions there, 278, et seq.; further troubles, 354; intrigues in parliament, 356; factious disputes, 362, 363; successes of opposition, 367, et seq.; theatrical and political riots, 389; results of the Newcastle administration, 390; Lord Hartington succeeds the Duke of Dorset, ii. 3, 18; its state in 1755, 23; general politics on the arrival of Lord Hartington, 23, et seq.; division of the vice-treasurership, 153; state of, in 1756, 183; a change of ministry gives the viceroyship to the Duke of Bedford, 271; affairs in 1757, iii. 14, 68, 69; violence of parties in 1758, 91; proposed union in 1759, 239; Thurot’s piratical expedition, 262, et seq.

Irish parliament, experiments tried on it by Hely Hutchinson, and anecdote of Sir Richard Cox, iii. 245, 246.

Isle of Aix, expedition to, iii. 48, et seq.

Jacobites, supposed political attack on the Duke of Cumberland, i. 9; dislike to the Gowers, 13; their activity and caution on the Westminster election, 17; their ingenuity in saving their consciences under oaths and salaries, 33; death of the last active one, Sir John Cotton, 255; anecdotes of their conduct in the rebellion in Scotland, and subsequent patronage, 266.

Jacobitism silenced towards the year 1752, i. 239; receives its death blow by the Tories uniting for party politics distinct from the question of the Stuart succession, ii. 12, et seq.

Jamaica, charges of tyranny at, against admiral Knowles, but they fail, ii. 152.

Jansen, Alderman, defends the conduct of the sheriffs in releasing Murray from Newgate, i. 212.

Jenyns, Soames, comes into office, ii. 140.

Jesuits, their state and opinions in France and the attempted murder of Louis XV., ii. 279, et seq.; their influence in Portugal, and its consequences to their Order, iii. 142, et seq.

Jew Bill of Naturalization, warm opposition to, i. 357, et seq.

Jews exempted in the Marriage Bill, i. 340.

Johnson, Dr., Bishop of Gloucester, proposed as preceptor to the princes, i. 291, 314.

Johnson, Sir William, gains a victory in Canada, ii. 46.

Jones, Neville, his prosecution in Ireland, through party principles, i. 280, 364.

Justice, instance of political, in Pitt’s conduct on Byng’s affair, ii. 349.

Kaunitz, Count, politics and foppish effeminacy, ii. 234.

Keene, Sir Benjamin, diplomatic services at the court of Spain, previous to the war of 1756, i. 398; ii. 33.

Keith, the Mayfair parson, anecdotes of his marriages and burials, i. 339.

Keppel, Captain, afterwards admiral, one of Byng’s court-martial, his feelings on the approaching execution, ii. 339, 348; requests to be absolved from his oath, 334, 349, 364; gallantry in Hawke’s action, iii. 232.

Kildare, Earl of, presents a memorial to the King against the Duke of Dorset, i. 354; party politics during the Bedford administration, in Ireland, iii. 72, et seq., 95, et seq.

King, Dr., anecdote of, ii. 374.

Knowles, Admiral, charged by Beckford with tyranny in Jamaica, but cleared triumphantly in the House, ii. 152.

Lancaster, duchy of, regulations of that office, and political demands for it, iii. 23.

Land Tax of three shillings opposed, but carried, i. 32; moved by Pelham, accompanied by a pitiful system of national policy, 218, et seq.

Laudohn, Marshal, defeated by the King of Prussia, iii. 294.

Lawyers, parliamentary character of, in politics, i. 149.

Lee, Sir George, anecdotes of, i. 90, 91; biographical notice of, _ib._; political errors, in the debate on army estimates, 214; as lord chief justice appointed chancellor of the exchequer _pro tempore_, on the death of Pelham, 378; quits Leicester-house politics, disgusted by Pitt’s influence with the princess dowager, iii. 28.

Legge, H. B., Lord Stawell, character and anecdotes, i. 190, 191; becomes chancellor of the exchequer under the Duke of Newcastle, 381; refuses to sign the German subsidiary treaties, in opposition to the Duke of Newcastle, ii. 35; his share in the changes of administration on the Duke of Newcastle’s resignation, 265; humane observations in the House of Commons pending the question of Byng’s trial, 340; offers the House of Commons to serve in office without salary, provided others would, 375.

Leicester-House politics, influence and interference in ministerial arrangements, on the rupture of Pitt and Fox, ii. 39.

Leveson, William, political independence and loss of patronage, i. 226.

Louis XV., extraordinary change of feeling in France towards him in old age, i. 216, et seq.; some notices of his amours, and their whimsical results, 334, 335; his contests with the parliament of Paris; loss of popularity, and attempted assassination, ii. 280, et seq.

Libels, extraordinary conduct of Lord Mansfield, respecting one on the Princess Amelia, ii. 221.

Ligonier, General, obliges the king with a church-living, i. 292; loses the ordnance to make room for the Duke of Marlborough, ii. 139; his character and services, _ib._

Limerick, James, Viscount, political character, i. 25; political censure and animadversions on the Regency Bill, 142, 143.

Lincoln, Lord, political character of, i. 85.

Lisbon destroyed by an earthquake, ii. 77; assisted by the parliament, 78.

Litchfield, Lord, his political character, iii. 166.

Lochiel, Laird of, his share in the rebellion, i. 353.

London, Bishop of, objects to the despotic powers granted by the Regency Bill, i. 115.

London, City of, invidious remarks of Lord Nugent on the question of the Gin Bill, i. 44; conduct of the sheriffs in releasing Murray from Newgate impugned in the House and defended by Jansen, 211, 212; absurdity of its politics during the contest for power between Pitt, Fox, and Newcastle, ii. 264; a petition in favour of Admiral Byng proposed by four Tory aldermen, and fails, 368.

Lonsdale, Henry, Viscount, death and character, i. 20.

LORDS, House of, session of 1751, i. 8; affair of the constitutional queries, 10; bill brought in to reform the old style, 50; address of condolence on demise of the Princess of Wales, 80; alterations in the Regency Bill, 115; go into committee on the bill, 116; third reading of the bill, 122; amendments from the Commons to the Regency Bill, explained and agreed to, 156; close of the session, 200; a new session opens, 208; adjournment and remarkable cessation of opposition, 228; House meets in 1752, 241; Saxon treaty debated, 244; opposition by the Duke of Bedford, _ib._; state of parties in the House, 263; bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, opposed by the Duke of Bedford, 264; prorogation, 275; session of 1753, 293; affair of the prince’s education brought forward by the Duke of Bedford, 310, 329; affair of the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.; bill for naturalizing the Jews, 359; absurd motion of Lord Powlet on the King’s going to Hanover, ii. 20; proceedings on the coalition of Fox and Bedford, the German treaties, French war, &c., 48, 103, et seq.; debates on the Swiss regiments for American service, 175; Militia Bill rejected, 202; a speaker chosen, on the resignation of the lord chancellor, 274; punish the author of a spurious royal speech, 277; affairs of Byng’s court-martial, and bill from the Commons to absolve the court from oath of secrecy, 351; debates, _ib._ et seq.; bill dropped, 366; engaged on the Militia Bill, iii. 11; affair of the Navy Bill, 105; Habeas Corpus, 112.

Lottery, a guinea one, proposed for the supplies, in Pitt’s administration, ii. 301.

Loudun, Earl of; comments on America, iii. 39, 40.

Lovat, Lord, erroneous declaration before the peers, as to his Scottish estates, i. 257.

Love-à-la-mode, its performance opposed by Lord Bute, but in vain,