i. 12;

conduct of his party on the Westminster petition, 28; party politics, 39, 47; death, and its political consequences, 72, 86; his character, _ib._, et seq.; his debts, 87; songs by, 432, 433, 434.

Wales, Princess of, character and anecdotes, i. 76; behaviour on death of the Prince, 77; education of her children, 79; kindness of the king, 83; changes in her household, 92; the regency affair, 99, et seq., 139, 146, et seq.; the Princess Matilda, a posthumous child, born, 201; differences in the tutorship of the Prince of Wales, 284; appears in public with the same honours as the late queen, 289; interference in the politics of the day, 418; her projects for governing her son, ii. 36; conduct in regard to his proposed marriage, _ib._; interference in politics, 39; opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47; her conduct on the prince attaining majority, 204, 205; anecdotes of Lord Bute, 205; proposed plan of removing the prince, 221; Leicester-house politics and change of ministry, 249, et seq.; total rejection of Fox’s overtures, in 1757, at Leicester-house, iii. 6; further manœuvres, 25, 30, 121.

Wall, General, political anecdote of, i. 398.

Walpole, Horace, moves the address in the Commons in 1751, i. 8; his sarcasms against the Devonshires accounted for, 196; praiseworthy candour, 233, 234, et seq.; the pretended memorial on the education of the Prince of Wales, 298; his part in the breach between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414; and of a union between Pitt and Fox, 415; speech on the Swiss regiments, ii. 163; applied to by Fox on his rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, but declines interference, 254, 255; urges Keppel to apply to be absolved from his oath, 327; extraordinary fact relative to Byng’s affair, 370; advice to Fox, to save him from the precipice of political ruin,