ii. 121;

parliamentary squabble with Fox on the question of foreign troops in America, 173; extraordinary conduct and political shuffling on Byng’s affair, 349; witticism on Fox’s sinecure grant of the pells in Ireland, iii. 4.

Townshend, Colonel George (afterwards brigadier-general), character of, i. 39; attack on General Anstruther, 56; complains to the House against Mr. Fox’s circulars, ii. 64; procures the repeal of all the old militia acts preparatory to a new one, 152; next in command to Wolfe at Quebec, iii. 171; succeeds Wolfe in the command in Canada, but treats his memory unhandsomely, 222.

Townshend, Lord, political anecdotes of, i. 163, 164.

Townshend, Lady, political anecdotes of, i. 39.

Transportation, commutation to hard labour in the dock-yards, proposed as a substitute for, i. 255.

Trentham, Lord, gives offence to his Westminster constituents, i. 13; judicious conduct, 14, 15.

Troops raised by peers to guard against invasion, ii. 202, 203.

Truth necessary for history, and why, i. 237, et seq.

Turner, Sir Edward, his extraordinary disavowal of Mr. Fox, ii. 67.

Tyrawley, Lord, sent to Portugal to settle complaints about smuggling money, i. 256; parliamentary affair with Lord George Sackville, iii. 109.

Tyrrel, Sir John, shameful conduct of, on the Westminster petition, i. 26.

Upton, Mr. (Lord Templetown), party affairs in Ireland, iii. 69, 70.

Vandeput, Sir George, first brought forward in Westminster, by Lord Egmont, i. 14.

Vane, Henry (afterwards Earl of Darlington), his political character, drunk or sober, i. 117.

Vaudreuil, Mons. de, his perfidious conduct in Canada, iii. 223.

Vernon, Admiral, outrageous speech on Murray’s affair, and the Westminster petition, i. 30, 31; anecdotes of, parliamentary and naval, i. 100, 101; biographical notice of, 101, 102.

Viceroyship of Ireland, its lucrative advantages, iii. 93.

Voltaire, character of, as an historian, i. 375; sends to England a letter from the Duc de Richelieu exculpating Byng, ii. 311.

Waldegrave, Earl of, appointed warden of the stannaries, i. 91; appointed governor to the Prince of Wales, 291; character and anecdotes, _ib._; speech, 328; entrusted with negotiations for a projected change of ministry, 418; attempts to form a ministry, iii. 26; but is forced to abandon it, 30.

Waldegrave, General, by a well-timed manœuvre, gains the battle of Minden, iii. 198.

Wales, Frederick, Prince of, renewed intercourse with the Pitt party,