Chapter XXII (2)

Coxe, William, 'Memoirs of Henry Pelham' quoted 249, 250, 278, 282,
286;
'Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole' quoted, 166, 168, 172, 216, 369

Cradock, Joseph, 'Literary Memoirs' referred to, 497

'Cranford,' see Gaskell, Mrs.

Cresset, Mr., 87, 115, 116

Cricket, played at Stowe, 80

Crowhurst, Colonel Pelham's place at, 305

Culloden, Battle of, 269, 398

Cumberland, Duke of, Grenville's hatred of, 21;
attempts to form a Pitt Ministry, 139;
George II.'s affection for, 387;
defeated at Fontenoy, 210;
and at Lauffeld, 212;
projected marriage of, 229;
awarded a pension, 269, 270;
objections to, as Regent, 293;
a member of the Regency Council, 370;
his devotion to Fox, 294, 352, 365, 380, 384, 388;
alliance of Newcastle with, 389;
plan of campaign, 398;
influence of, 475

Darcy, Sir Conyers, 439

Dashwood, Francis, Baron, 414

Delamere, Lord, 14

Delaval, John, speech at Berwick, 358

Delany, Mrs., 'Memoirs of,' referred to, 52, 125, 126

Denbigh, Lord, 249

Derby, Prince Charles Edward marches on, 244

Dettingen, Battle of, 214, 218;
George II. at, 193, 194;
Pitt's view of the, 222

Devonshire, land purchased in, 6

Devonshire, Duke of, 339, 379, 380, 462, 467, 476-86

Devonshire House, assembly at, 479

De Witt, Jan, 443

Diamond, transaction of the Pitt, 3, 4

Dickins and Stanton, 'An Eighteenth Century Correspondence'
referred to, 134

Digby, Lord, 359, 459, 461

Disraeli, Benjamin, 172

'Divinity Pitt,' 54

Dodington, George Bubb, 135, 140, 155, 224, 236, 237, 292, 346, 349,
350, 370, 373, 380, 383-6, 388, 443, 459, 479, 480, 483

Dorsetshire, lands purchased in, 6

Dover, Lord, 156

Dresden, occupied by Frederick II., 210;
Peace of, 246

'Dropmore Papers' quoted and referred to, 8, 13, 26, 56

Duffell, Dr., 126

Dundonald, Lord, 'Autobiography of,' referred to, 134

Dunkirk, 277

Dupleix, 395

Dupplin, one of the Paymasters, 455, 472

Duquesne Fort, 398

Dutch Expedition up the Thames recalled, 226

Dutens, Louis, reception by the Pitts, 50, 51;
'Voyage' referred to, 174

East India Company, 2

Education, Chatham's letters on, 20

Edward III., 179

Egmont, Earl of, 277, 284, 292, 373, 406, 472

'Eighteenth Century Correspondence,' see Dickins and Stanton

Election expenses, 143

Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, 206, 207, 400, 402

Elizabeth, Queen of England, 423

Ellis, Welbore, 410, 415, 460, 461

Enfield Chase, 308

England, indifference of George II. and William III. to, 198, 199;
pledged to the Pragmatic Sanction, 203;
'Remarks on the History of,' see Bolingbroke, Lord

Epsom, 154

Eridge, 305

Erskine, Sir Henry, 39, 441, 467

Erskine, Thomas, 39

Esmond, Will, 13

Essex, Lady, see Pitt, Essex

Esther, name given to Chatham's wife, 356

Eton, 11, 27-30, 160

Eugene, Prince, 438

Excise scheme, 287, 288

Fairly Farm, 305

Falmouth, Lord, 18

Fane, Lord, 360

Feilding, Charles, amiability of, 61, 73

Fielding, Henry, on Lord Chatham, 27;
'Squire Allworthy' referred to, 112, 303;
'Tom Jones' referred to, 27

Finch, Edward, 248, 252

Finch, William, 248, 252

Fitzgerald, Hon. Edward Villiers, 26

Fitzmaurice, Lord, 'Life of Shelburne' referred to, 27, 47, 49, 166,
172, 176, 467, 501

Flanders, British troops in, 188, 205;
military operations in, 211, 223, 224

Florence, 49, 50

Fontainebleau, Treaty of, objects of the, 208

Fontenoy, Battle of, 210, 214, 243, 246

Foote, Samuel, 174, 298;
'Table Talk' referred to, 499

Fort St. George, 3, 9

Fortescue Family, nickname of the, 58

Fortescue, J.W., 'History of the British Army,' quoted, 221

Fox, Charles, illness of, 340

Fox, Henry, at Eton with Chatham, 27;
temperament, 230, 294-7;
sketch of his character, 294-7;
regarded as odious, 327;
peerage endowment from Paymastership, 257, 296, 314;
candidate for Secretaryship of State, 279, 282;
the Buckingham Assize dispute, 272;
the Marriage Act, 305;
admitted to the Cabinet, 367, 368, 370;
member of the Council of Regency, 367, 370;
Newcastle's choice between Fox and Pitt, 388;
stipulations for promotions of friends, 390;
position on Provisioning Bill, 394;
as leader of the House, 330, 335, 402, 410, 415, 417-20;
opposes Bill for war prizes, 423;
his challenge accepted, 428;
vetoes an appointment, 430;
defends Hume Campbell, 434;
no voice in Treasury appointment, 439;
questions of dictatorship, 445;
parliamentary intrigues and position, 458-67;
mistakes concerning--resume of parliamentary life, 474-84;
on Ann Pitt, 50;
prospects of the Young Pretender, 244;
George II.'s inclination to, 318, 341;
gratified with Chatham, 218;
opposed to Chatham, 268, 292, 294, 349, 350, 365, 407, 416-20,
430, 436, 440, 445;
visits Chatham, 326;
placed over Chatham, 330;
agreement with Chatham, 352;
description of Chatham's outburst with Newcastle, 357;
meets Chatham at Holland House, 370;
sends apologies to Hardwicke, 341;
hatred of Newcastle, 374, 389;
and Newcastle's disgrace, 452, 453, 471, 472;
rivalries referred to, 283;
his enemies, 384;
metaphors used by, 407;
letters quoted, 343, 359, 364;
Walpole on, 442

'France, Histoire de,' see Martin

France, Wars of, 204, 205, 207, 209, 212, 226, 233, 395, &c.

Franche-Comte, 69

Francis, Duke, 72

Frankfort, 207, 209

Frederick II. (the Great), accession of, 201;
in Silesia, 202, 203;
proclaimed Emperor at Frankfort, 205;
his claim of Silesia, 395;
War of Austrian Succession, 206, 209, 400-02;
subsidy to, 286-7, 289

'Frederick the Great,' see Carlyle, Thomas

'Frederick II. and his Times,' see Raumer

Frederick, Prince of Wales, heir apparent, 148-51;
marriage of, 151, 157;
his character and conduct, 149, 150;
banished from Court, 152;
expelled from St. James's, 161;
Dr. Ayscough adviser to, 54;
father of George II., 195;
friendship with Thomas Pitt, 17;
at the General Election, 171;
Carteret a favourite of, 180, 219, 237;
congratulates Walpole, 228;
quarrels with Pitt, 256;
negotiations with Pitt, 291, 293;
decline of affection for Lady Hamilton, 352;
overtures to Fox, 365;
death of, 261, 292

Frederick William, of Prussia, death of, 201

Free Trade, 231

Gage, Mr., M.P., 270

Gainsborough, Thomas, portrait by, 353

Gambier, Lord, 'Memorials,' 305

Garrick, David, 499

Gaskell, Mrs., 'Cranford' referred to, 352

Gay, John, 54

'Gazetteer, The,' newspaper, 163

'Gentleman's Magazine, The,' 188

George I., 156, 163, 200, 387

George II., his dual personality, 192, 204, 207, character of, 192;
his political character, 194;
Lord Hervey's unworthy portrayal of, 197;
his courage, 220, 221;
with Lady Yarmouth at Richmond, 193;
devotion for Hanover, 195, 198, 446;
as Elector of Hanover concludes a treaty with the French, 204;
on the security of the Electorate of Hanover, 286;
placed under arrest by his father, 150;
his hatred of his son the Prince of Wales, 162, 387;
the Dutch War, 212;
in Hanover, 53, 54, 399, 402;
at Dettingen, 207;
at Oudenarde, 194;
signs the Treaty of Worms, 208;
the Treaty of Berlin, 206;
speech in Parliament, 1755, 403-4;
gives Premiership to Pelham, 216, 217;
his aversion to the Earl of Bath, 217;
his anger with Newcastle, 458;
dismissal of Carteret, 229, 238;
Pitt's first visit to, 63;
his hatred of Pitt, 108, 157, 179, 190, 191, 253, 482;
reason for this hatred, 157;
Pitt's apparent loyalty to, 424, 425;
Pitt's desire for reconciliation with, 459, &c., 465-72;
testifies to Walpole's bravery, 146;
discourteous treatment of Temple, 484;
repugnance to Legge, 481-2;
the execution of Admiral Byng, 451

George III., as a lad, 292;
compared with George II., 200;
in the Lords, 430;
and Mr. Fox, 342, 365, 367, 459, 474;
endeavours to form a Pitt Ministry, 139, 140;
Newcastle refuses a pension offered by, 174;
on Pelham's death, 313;
treaties with Hesse-Cassel and Russia, 371

'George III., Memoirs of the Reign of,' see Walpole, Horace

George IV., extravagance of, 195;
compared with George II., 200

Georgia, 167, 208

Germaine, Lady Betty, 107

Germany, 109, 165, 194, 206

Gibbs' 'History of Aylesbury' referred to, 275

Gibbon, Edward, 47

Gibraltar, proposed restoration to Spain, 208

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W.E., 230

Glasgow and the Jacobite occupation, 276

Glatz, ceded to Frederick II., 206, 210

Glenfinnan, the Young Pretender at, 243

Glover, Richard, 176, 177, 236, 237, 259, 346

Gordon, Rev., 493

Gower, Granville Leveson, 237, 247, 248

Grafton, Duke of, 264

Grandison, Catherine, Viscountess of, 26

Grandison, Lord, 12, 15, 41, 46

Granville, Earl, see Carteret, John

'Grattan, Life of,' referred to, 85, 86, 495

Gray, Sir James, 70

Gray, Thomas, lampoon on Fox, 297

Grenville, Family of, Pitt united to the, 17, 130, 131, 389

'Grenville Papers' referred to, 86, 131, 132, 134, 234, 277, 316,
319, 321, 327, 333, 465, 482

Grenville, George, opposed the war in Flanders, 223;
the Buckingham Assizes, 272;
speech on unrest with Spain, 167;
offices held by:--
Prime Minister, 130;
Lord of the Treasury, 239, 486;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 346;
Paymastership, 467;
Secretaryship of State offered to, 138;
congratulated by Pitt, 348;
Bill _re_ vessels captured before declaration of war, 423;
position and reasons for his hatred of Pitt, 21, 131;
opposition to Pitt, 268;
letters from Pitt to, 141, 260, 276, 277, 455;
Letters from Lyttelton to, 317, 327;
visit to Bath, 328

Grenville, Henry, 133

Grenville, Lady, inherits Boconnoc, 24, 133

Grenville, Lady Hester, 410, 411;
wife of Chatham, 53, 102, 352, 353, 356;
letters of, and reference to, 99-102, 105, 110, 112-15, 124, 125,
311, 312;
her character, 355;
pension to, 124

Grenville, James, 133, 139, 311, 372, 467

Grenville, Richard Temple, afterwards Earl Temple, 81;
resigned Privy Seal, 139;
proposed as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 467;
proposed as First Lord of the Admiralty, 479;
refused to be First Lord of the Treasury, 136, 139;
Order of the Garter, 139;
his ambition a Dukedom, 140;
application for title, 138;
his bet, 138;
apologises to Hervey, 138;
cold reception at Court, 484-5;
visits Chatham at Bath, 348;
voted against the Hanoverians, 254;
pensioned, 410;
the Buckingham Assizes dispute, 272, 290;
Letters to, 319-21, 326-7, 332;
'Letters of Junius' ascribed to, 136

Grenville, Thomas, killed in action off Cape Finisterre, 133

Grenvilles, the, 130, 137, 465, 483;
public money drawn by, 134;
friends of Pitt, 492

Grub Street, 298

Guernsey, 80

Hagley, Lord Lyttelton's seat at, 306, 307, 313

Hague, Embassy to the, 240

Halifax, Earl of, 472

Hamilton, Duke of, 6, 390, 404, 477

Hamilton, Lady Archibald, 352

Hamilton, Lord Archibald, 178

Hampden, Lord, attack on Pitt, 268, 290

Hampden, Richard, estate of, 233, 234

Hampshire, land purchased in, 6

Hampton Court, 84, 151, 198

Hannan, John, 52

Hannan, Sir William, 52

Hannibal, 191, 438

Hanover, Pitt's contempt for, 178, 186;
George II.'s devotion to, 188, 189, 195, 198;
his visit to, 194;
his ideas for safeguarding, 286;
Convention signed at, between Britain and Prussia, 210;
George III.'s visit to, 371

Hanoverian Guards substituted for English Guards, 218

Hanoverians, allies of Britain, 211;
English hatred of the, 218;
vote for maintenance of the, 224, 225;
transferred to Maria Theresa, 241, 242

Hapsburg, House of, 204

Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, letters to, 259, 324, 325, 333,
337, 350, 351, 458;
letters from, 351, 380, 381;
on the alienation of the Prince of Wales from his parents, 156;
as Newcastle's mentor and counsellor, 175, 314, 315;
on Pitt's popularity in the Commons, 185;
on Pitt's acrimoniousness, 219;
and George II., 238, 239;
on the foreign military policy, 246;
his treatment of Newcastle, 279;
supports Newcastle, 340;
supports Pitt, 371-3;
antagonism over Marriage Act, 305;
as the brains of the Cabinet, 315-16;
political unrest and intrigue of 1755-6, 386-90, 453, 464-5,
467-73, 476;
'Life of Hardwicke,' see Harris, George

Harrington, Earl of, 240, 246, 251

Harris, George, 'Life of Hardwicke' referred to, 152, 464, 465, 471

Harrison, Mr., 74, 75

Hartington, Lord, 289, 341, 343;
Letters from Fox to, 359, 364

Hastings, 305

Hawke, Lord, 174

Hawkins, ----, 390

Hay, Dr., 467

Hayes, 103, 110, 111, 113, 114, 125, 306, 310, 311

Hedges, William, quotations from, 2

Hell-fire Club, 275

Henley, Robert, 155

Herrenhausen, 198

Hertford, Lord, 140

Hervey, Lord, 138, 153, 160, 164, 197, 413;
'Memoirs' referred to, 153, 162, 164

Hesse, Landgrave of, 209

Hesse-Cassel, Treaty with, 371, 374, 378, 379

Hessians, allies of Britain, 211

Hillsborough, Lord, 369, 439

Hoare, William, portrait of Pelham, 314;
portraits of Pitt, 488, 489

Hochkirch, Battle of, 106

Holdernesse, Lady, 115, 116

Holdernesse, Lord, 282, 300, 397, 410, 411, 479, 482, 483

Holland, 40, 41, 199;
the Dutch as allies, 211;
guarantee of assistance to, 246, 247

Holland, Lady, 'Journal' quoted, 24

Holland House, meeting of Chatham and Fox at, 370

'Holland House MSS.' referred to, 296, 340, 342, 343, 350, 410, 431,
454, 459, 460, 476, 477, 479, 480-3, 486

Hollins, ----, 63

Holyrood, Prince Charles Edward at, 243, 244

'Homer, Original Genius of,' see Wood, Robert

Hood, Admiral, 353

Houghton, Walpole at, 147, 228;
his burial at, 229

Howard, Frederick, see Carlisle, Earl of

Howe, Captain Lord, 399

Hungary, Queen of, 202;
subsidy voted to, 205

Hurstmonceux, 305

Hyde, Lord, 462

Impiger, 332

India, Governor Pitt's progress in, 2, 3

Innes Family, 7

Iracundus, 332

Irwin, Lady, 159

Italy, war in, 213

Jacobinism, Governor Pitt on, 10

Jamaica, position of the Governorship of, 5

James I., 432

James II., 243, 276, 393

Jenkins' Ear, story of, 166

Jews' Naturalisation Act, 298, 299

Johnson, Dr., 257, 413, 493

Kaunitz, adviser of Maria Theresa, 400

Kensington, 82, 114-16, 118, 198

Khevenhueller, General, occupies Munich, 205

Kielmansegge's 'Diary,' quoted, 303

Kildare, Lord, 459

'Kildare, Narrative to,' quotations from, 476, 478, 479, 482

King, Mr., 305

Land's End, 226

Lanoe, Colonel, 58, 60

Lauffeld, Battle of, 212, 214

Leadam, quoted, 208

Leasowes, Shenstone's house at, 307

Lecky, W.E.H., 502

Lee, Dr., 155, 255, 268, 272, 275, 373

Legge, Henry Bilson, 330, 336, 380-2;
letter to Chatham, 308, 309;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 346, 349, 405, 410, 411, 467, 480, 481;
a Lord of the Treasury, 486;
Pitt's Ministry, 483;
the King's repugnance to, 482;
proposed Peerage for, 479;
on Chatham's speech, 360;
refused to sign the Hesse-Cassel Treaty, 374;
distrusted by Newcastle, 374;
in praise of Walpole, 423

Leicester House, 115, 155, 291-4, 318, 353, 368, 370, 371, 383,
386-8, 404, 456, 475, 481, 483-5

Lifeguards escort George II., 193

Ligonier, General, 212

Limerick, Lord, 184, 185, 187

Lincoln, acts as mediator between the Pelham brothers, 291

Linz, Archduke proclaimed in, 205

Liverpool, Lord, 141

'London Magazine, The,' 188

Londonderry, Lord, 1, 5, 6

Loo, 198

Lothian, Lord, 439

Loudoun, Lord, 441

Louis XIV., 133, 192, 193

Louis XV., 193, 208, 209, 212, 400;
'Louis XV. et la Renversement des Alliances,' see Waddington,
Richard

Louis XVIII., 141

Louisbourg, 113, 243

Low Countries, 188, 212

Luneville, 45, 71, 72

Lyndhurst, Lord, 443

Lyte, Sir Henry, 'Dunster,' quoted, 6;
'History of Eton' referred to, 29

Lyttelton, Christian, marriage with Thomas Pitt, 17, 41, 130;
her character, 17

Lyttelton, Sir George, afterwards Baron Lyttelton, Pitt
correspondence referring to, 28, 41, 42, 49, 54, 58, 63, 77, 78,
317, 318, 321-4, 329, 331, 348;
his companions in youth, 141;
friendship with William Pitt, 130, 492;
supports Pitt, 289;
quarrel with Pitt, 407;
reconciliation, 414;
private secretary to Prince of Wales, 162;
return to Parliament, 159;
and standing army, 164;
and Spanish War, 167-8;
influence over Pulteney, 177;
secret terms with Walpole, 177;
policy concerning war in Flanders, 223-4;
a Lord of the Treasury, 236, 237, 239;
arranged coalition between forces of Stowe and Leicester House, 291;
Cofferer, 346, 347;
attempts reconciliation between Newcastle and Bedford, 412;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 412;
his Budget, 440;
War supplies, 446-8;
Joint-Paymaster of the Forces, 455;
character, 414;
couplet, 158;
works, 413;
'Memoirs and Correspondence of,' see Phillimore, R.J.

Lyttelton, Molly, 74, 353

Lyttelton, Sir Richard, 111, 130, 327, 423, 467 473

Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, 16

Lyttelton, William, 306

Macaulay, 31, 214

Macclesfield, Lord, death of, 134

Madras, 11

Maestricht, siege of, 278

Magyars appealed to by Maria Theresa, 205

Mahon, Lady, 126

Maillebois, Marshal, 204

Mainz, Elector of, 286

'Malta, Knights of,' see Porter

Mann, Sir Horace, 'Letters to Horace Walpole,' 50, 126, 138, 234, 253

Mansfield, Lord, see Murray, William, Earl of

Marchmont, Earl of, Duchess of Marlborough's bequest to, 234

'Marchmont Papers' quoted, 155, 168, 180, 224, 234, 235, 240

Maria Theresa, the War of Austrian Succession, 202-5, 208, 210,
213-15, 221, 222, 241, 242, 246, 247, 286, 395, 400;
her character, 214, 215

Marlborough, Duke of, 131, 170, 343, 366, 477

Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, death and bequests of, 21, 233, 234

'Marlborough, Duchess of, Life of,' see Thomson

Marriage Act, 305

Marseilles, 45, 70

Martin's 'Histoire de France,' quoted, 208

Martin, Mr., 357

Martyn, Mr., 46

Mayo, Mr., 39

Mediterranean, English fleet in, 205

Medmenham, Brotherhood of, 272

Meehan's 'Famous Houses of Bath,' quoted, 303, 304

Meredith, Sir William, 431

Middlesex, Lord, M.P. for Old Sarum, 270

Milan, 208

Miller, Mr. Saunderson, 307

'Ministry, The New,' a collection of songs, &c., 139

Minorca, 208, 294;
fall of, 450-1

Mirabeau's power of oratory, 501

Mirepoix, Duchess of, 109

Mirepoix, Duke of, 399

Mohawks, 23

Mohun, Lord, sells Boconnoc, 6

Molinox, Mr., 63

Molwitz, Austrians defeated at, 203

Monmouth, Duke of, at Sedgemoor, 187

Mons, capture of, 212

Montagu, Duke of, 428

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 52, 54;
'Letters' quoted, 305, 306, 309, 353

Montcalm, General, 457;
'Montcalm and Wolfe,' see Parkman

Montespan, 192

Montpelier, 45, 71

Morayshire, 7

'Moreau, Souvenirs de,' referred to, 398, 400

Mudge, Mr., 501

Mug, Matthew, 299

Murray, William, Earl of, formerly Lord Mansfield, oratorical powers,
302;
precision of, 496-7;
eminence of, 340;
Solicitor-General, 223, 318;
Attorney-General, 453-5;
his chance of promotion, 338;
_re_ new Cabinet, 380;
changes in the Cabinet, 389;
_re_ Jacobites, 392;
_re_ subsidy treaties, 431-4, 436;
attitude towards Pitt, 268, 421;
Pitt's attack on, 359, 360, 363-5;
on Pitt's powers of ridicule, 503;
enemy of Fox, 384;
coolness towards Newcastle, 430;
correspondence regarding, 54, 335, 336

Mutiny Bill, 276

Namur, capture of, 212

Naples, 195, 205

Napoleon I., 136, 215, 269

Napoleon III., 509

Navy, proposed reduction of the, 289

Necessity Fort, surrender of, 350

Nedham, Mrs. Catherine, see Pitt, Catherine

Nedham, Robert, his marriage with Catherine Pitt, 49;
nominated for Old Sarum, 129

Nevers, 98

Newbury, 46, 74

Newcastle, Sir Thomas Pelham, afterwards Duke of, his character, 138,
173-4;
an incident at his uncle's death, 138;
refuses a pension, 174;
contempt of George II. for, 150, 196, 245;
supports Henry Pelham, 216, 217;
blunder in the Lords, 227;
supports the Dutch cause, 247;
the Ministerial crisis of 1746, 248, 249, 252;
the Seaford election, 270;
his jealous nature, 279;
his dislike for Bedford, 279, 280;
views on the Hanoverian question, 286;
Pitt's enmity with, 422, 427, 453, 471, 481, 486;
profession of gratitude to Pitt, 290, 291;
Fox's vengeance on, 296;
his jealousy of Fox, 439;
Fox's hatred of, 482;
the Jews' Naturalisation Act, 298, 299;
letters and correspondence, 97, 139, 281, 313, 316, 329-33, 347,
351, 386, 461-2;
Secretary of State, 319, 321, 323;
his appointments, 340;
words with Chatham, 357;
his power in the Commons, 361, 382;
negotiations with Fox, 368-9;
Prime Minister, 388;
formation of Cabinet, 389;
councils of war, 397;
and Hanoverian treaties, 409;
attempted negotiations between Newcastle and French Ambassador, 399;
loyalty of Commons to, 410;
Pitt's suspicions of, 411;
attempted reconciliation between Newcastle and Bedford, 412;
his opinion of Lyttelton, 412;
political unrest, 430, 441, 453-5, 458-70;
_re_ execution of Byng, 451, 452;
deserted by his friends, 471-5;
resignation, 485

'Newcastle MSS.,' 316, 328, 349, 351, 374, 474, 486

Newdigate, Sir Roger, 363

Newton, Bishop, 'Works' referred to, 176;
metaphor of, 494

Niesse ceded to Frederick II., 206

Nivernois, M. de, 121

Noailles, 400

Norfolk, election expenses in, 143

Norfolk House, 162

North, Lord, 265

Northampton, 43, 60, 64, 65, 234

Nugent, Robert, Earl, 140, 272, 275, 363, 428

Nuthall, Thomas, 312

Okehampton, 5, 75

Oliver, Dr., 106, 113

Onslow, Rt. Hon. Arthur, Chatham's appeal to, 359

Orange, House of, returned to power, 212

Orford's 'George III.,' see Walpole, Horace

Orleans, Regent of, 4

Orsini, 509

Orwell, portrait at, 353

Oswald, James, 292

Oswego, fall of, 457

Oudenarde, Battle of, George II. at, 194

Oxford, 10, 30, 31, 54, 119, 363

Pall Mall, 5, 26, 35

Pan, Temple of, 309

Paris, 45, 68, 109, 181, 182

Parkman's 'Montcalm and Wolfe' quoted, 396, 398, 457

Parliamentary History, see Cobbett, William

Parma, proposed reconquest of, 208

Paulett, Lord, 112

Peel, Sir Robert, 172, 224, 489, 490;
a comparison, 230, 231

Pelham, Colonel, 305

Pelham, Rt. Hon. Henry, effect of his death, 96, 97, 301, 313-15, 506;
the King's regard for, 196, 251, 313;
eager for peace, 212;
becomes Premier, 216, 217, 314;
Chatham's support, 227, 291, 394;
Carteret's support, 227, 291, 394;
Carteret's dismissal, 235, 245;
assistance to the Dutch, 246;
refuses office perquisites, 256-8, 269, 314;
on Aix-la-Chapelle Treaty, 277;
eulogy of Chatham, 278, 315;
seeks retirement, 283;
foreign policy, 289, 447;
'Memoirs of Henry Pelham,' see Coxe, William

Pelham, Sir Thomas, see Newcastle, Duke of

Pembroke, Lord, 1st Dragoon Guards, 43, 76

Penshurst, Chatham visits, 305

Peter the Great, 147, 207

Philip, Don, designs on Milan, 208

Phillimore, R.J., 'Memoirs and Correspondence of Lyttelton' referred
to, 140, 306, 324, 325, 338

Phillips, Mrs., 57, 63

Phillipson, Mr., 477

Pitt, Dr., 117

Pitt, Ann (sister to Lord Chatham), friendships, 41, 49, 53, 54;
State appointments, 53, 87;
nicknames, 55;
correspondence with her brother, 55-84, 88-125, 492;
quarrels with Chatham, 83, 85-7, 115, 256;
retires to France, 92, 95;
returns to England, 102-4;
health and mental condition, 107, 115, 116, 120;
income increased to, 121;
resides at Kensington, 125;
grief at death of brother, 127;
under restraint, death, 126

Pitt, Betty (sister to Lord Chatham), history and description of,
49-52

Pitt, Catherine (sister to Lord Chatham), afterwards Nedham, 49, 84,
95, 96-8

Pitt, Clara Villiers, see Pitt, Betty

Pitt, Elizabeth, see Pitt, Betty

Pitt, Essex (daughter of Governor Pitt), marriage, death, 12, 14, 96

Pitt, George (of Strathfieldsaye), 26

Pitt, Harriot, wife of Robert Pitt, see Villiers

Pitt, Harriot (sister of Lord Chatham), matrimonial designs on, 41,
42, 44;
her character, 48;
marriage of, 49;
illness, 60, 70, 74

Pitt, Hester, wife of Chatham, see Grenville

Pitt, John (great-grandfather of Chatham), Vicar of Blandford, 1

Pitt, John (son of Governor Pitt), disposition, 6, 12, 13

Pitt, John, a Dorsetshire kinsman, 305, 327

Pitt, John (eldest son of Lord Chatham), 455, 456, 477

Pitt, Lucy (daughter of Governor Pitt), marriage, death, 12-14

Pitt, Mary (sister of Lord Chatham), referred to, 95, 102, 103, 106,
107, 110, 113, 115;
described, 49, 52;
letter to Lady Suffolk, 102

Pitt, Robert (son of Governor Pitt, father of Lord Chatham), family
relationships, 8, 12, 14-16, 26, 48;
character, 12, 14;
death, 5, 15, 19, 38;
correspondence from son's tutor, 28, 31

Pitt, Thomas ('The Governor') parentage, characteristics, 1-5, 7, 14,
24, 508;
prescience regarding Chatham, 11, 26;
mourning item, 34

Pitt, Thomas (son of Robert, brother of Lord Chatham), conduct and
characteristics, 14-16;
seeks appointment, 18;
marriage, 41;
charge against, 49;
parliamentary career, 129, 159, 270

Pitt, Thomas (son of Thomas Pitt), 1st Baron Camelford, letters
quoted and referred to, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 12, 15, 17, 44, 48, 50,
52, 54, 85-7, 92, 93, 102, 103, 111, 114, 116, 121, 127, 130,
159, 160, 413, 491, 496;
created Baron Camelford, 19;
on Chatham's marriage, 354, 355;
bias toward Chatham, 23, 50, 102, 127, 257

Pitt, Villiers Clara, see Pitt, Betty

Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham, see Chatham

Pitt, William (the younger), birth, 111;
death, 353

Place Bill, extension of, 245

Plutarch, referred to, 443

Poetical quotations, 19, 62, 143, 148, 158, 174, 177, 211, 254, 298,
307

Poland, partition of, 215

Poland, King of, Berlin Treaty and the, 206

Poland-Saxony, claims of Austria on, 203

Polwarth, against Walpole, 148

Pomfret, Lord, 467

Pompadour, Madame de, 400

Pope, Alexander, quoted, 79, 131, 132, 197

Porritt's 'Unreformed House of Commons' referred to, 129

Porte, Mr. de la, 102

Porter's 'History of the Knights of Malta' quoted, 451

Portsmouth, Duchess of, intercedes for Governor Pitt, 3

Potter, Thomas, supports petition against Seaford, 271;
Bucks Assize dispute, 272-5;
Chatham's praise of, 454;
position found for, 483, 486;
opposes navy reduction, 289

Pragmatic Sanction, maintenance of, 202, 203

Prague, King of Bohemia proclaimed in, 205

Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden, 27, 311

Preston, Mr., 50

'Pretyman Papers,' referred to, 355

Prevot, as a prototype, 441

Prior Park, 112

Protestant Succession, endurance to secure, 198

Prussia, Convention signed at Hanover, 210

Pulteney, Sir William, Earl of Bath, Ann Pitt's designs on, 54, 107;
entertained at Stowe, 132;
his wit, 254;
idolised by the people, 175, 262;
Walpole's use of, 176, 219, 505;
stands aside for Carteret, 178;
popularity declines, 184, 259;
nettled at criticism, 185;
claims head of Government, 216;
forms a Government--its failure, 250, 251, 409;
proscribed, 252;
lack of character, 258;
introduces Prize Bill, 422;
Newcastle's reflection on, 472

Queensbury, Duchess of, 54, 84

Queensbury, Duke of, 249

Radway, 307

Ranby, Dr., 229

Raumer's 'Frederick II. and his Times,' 402

Reading, 43, 360

Redhall, 8

'Rejected Addresses,' see Smith, Horatio

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 23, 489

Rhine, River, 207

Richelieu, Duke of, 204, 427

Richmond, 147, 193

Richmond, Duke of, 295

Ridgeway, Earl of Londonderry, 12

Rigby, Richard, 424

Rivers, Lord, 1

Robinson, Sir Thomas, his appointments, 345;
Master of the Wardrobe and Secretary of State, 330, 337, 344, 345,
349, 467, 482;
pensioned, 391, 392, 439;
Chatham's remarks to, 360;
Newcastle's praise of, 344, 345;
panegyric on himself, 428

Rochester, 104

Rogers, Samuel, 'Recollections of Samuel Rogers' referred to, 85, 86;
'Table Talk,' 364

Rolt, Bayntun, 172

Rolliad, quotation from, 19

Rondet, the royal jeweller, 4

Ross, Man of, 303

Roucoux, French victory at, 212

Royston, Lord, 465

Russell, Lord John, 231

Russia, George III.'s treaty with, 371, 378, 379

Ryder, Sir Dudley, 453, 455

Sackville, Lord George, 428, 442

St. James's Square, 105, 108, 110, 112, 113, 118, 120, 151, 162

St. Lawrence, River, naval battle at mouth of, 399

St. Rumbald, spring at, 304

Salisbury, 129

Samson of Battersea, nickname of Bolingbroke, 328

Sancho Panza, 191

Sandwich, Earl of, 279, 282

Sandys, Baron, 148

Sardinia, 203, 208;
King of, 225, 258

Sarpedon, 181

Sarum, Old, 2, 4-6, 129, 270

Saunders, Sir Charles, 450

Savile, Sir George, 191

Savoy, House of, 208

Saxe, Marshal, marches against Austria, 209;
successes in the Low Countries, 212

Saxons, as allies of Britain, 211

Saxony, entered by Frederick II., 210;
Elector of, 206, 286, 289

Schwerin, Marshal, defeats Austrians at Molwitz, 203

Scrope, John, 187

Seaford, election of Chatham for, 270, 358

Sedgemoor, 187

Seine, River, 199

Selwyn, George, 109, 345, 390

Seward's 'Anecdotes' referred to, 55, 161, 172, 180, 501

Shelburne, Lord, thoughts on Thomas Pitt, 18;
on the madness of the Pitts, 24;
on Pitt's use of words, 501;
on Richard Temple, 131;
troop offered to, 160;
on Pulteney's oratory, 176;
'Life of Shelburne,' see Fitzmaurice, Lord

Shenstone, William, 306

Sheridan, R.B., 502

Shippen, William, 148

Siddons, Mrs., 500

Sidmouth, Lord, 489

Silesia, 209

Sinclair, Sir John, 7

Sion, 115, 116

'Skew,' a nickname, 58, 69

Smith, Horatio, 'Rejected Addresses' referred to, 23

Smollett, Tobias, 174

Soho, 6

Solomon, name given to Chatham, 356

South Lodge, 308, 309

South Sea Bubble, 5

Spain, extravagance of the Bourbons, 195;
claim on Austria, 203;
cause of war with, 213;
Walpole's policy, 145, 165, 167;
war declared against, 201;
'Britons in Spanish prisons' cry, 167;
peace question raised by Lord Egmont, 284

Spencer, Lady Diana, 151

Spencer, John, bequests to and from, 234

Sporus, 197

Stair, Lord, 207, 218

Stanhope, George, death of, 98

Stanhope, Lady Hester, 7, 139, 489;
'Memoirs,' 139

Stanhope, James, 1st Earl, 31;
soldier and statesman, 5, 46;
marriage with Lucy Pitt, 14

Stanhope, Philip Dormer, see Chesterfield, Earl of

Stanhope, Sir William, speech on the Bucks Assize dispute, 272-4

Stanislas, 71

Stanley, Hans, 327

Stannaries, Thomas Pitt, Warden of, 18

States General, a party to the Treaty of Berlin, 206

Stephen, Leslie, 'English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth
Century,' 214, 307, 353

Stewart, General, 26

Stockwell, I., as tutor to Lord Chatham, 31

Stone, Andrew, 384, 390, 460

Stone House, 304

Stormont, 453

Stowe, 77-82, 130, 132, 272, 291, 306, 352, 355

Strange, Lord, 277

Stratford, 5, 28

Stuart, House of, 144

Stuart, Charles Edward, 'the Young Pretender,' 199, 210, 211, 222,
226, 243

Stuart, Mrs., 96

'Sublimity Pitt,' 54

Subsidies, On, 205, 209, 289, 379, 380, 430-4, 436

Suffolk, 234

Suffolk, Lady, letters referred to, 12, 53, 54, 57, 76, 78, 79, 81,
86, 102, 104, 107, 127, 161

Sunninghill, 304

Surajah Dowlah, 457

Sussex, tour in, 305

Swallowfield, 5, 11, 43, 57

Sweden, King of, 209

Talbot, Lord, evil living of, 49

Taylor, Miss, 51

Temperley's 'Essay on the Causes of War with Spain' referred to, 166

Temple, Countess, see Grenville, Lady

Temple, Lord, see Grenville, Richard Temple, afterwards Earl Grenville

Temple, Sir Richard, Viscount Cobham, 17, 77, 81, 236, 245, 292, 304,
346, 505;
builder of palace of Stowe, 130, 131;
his entertainments at, 132;
served under Marlborough, 131;
called 'the brave Cobham,' 131;
his great riches, 134, 141;
various titles and honours conferred on, 131;
opposed to the Excise Bill, 132;
sides with Pitt, 22;
Pitt devoted to Cobham, 160, 161, 178;
quarrel with Pitt, 256;
on the war in Flanders, 223, 224, 227;
growing jealousy of his 'young patriots,' 273, 276;
nicknames to, 131;
death of, 133, 138

Temple Bar, 169

Thackeray, Francis, 'Life of Chatham' referred to, 28, 54, 163, 363

Thackeray, W.M., referred to, 13;
satire on George II. mentioned, 196

Thames, Dutch ships in the, 226

'The Test,' a newspaper, 50

Thessaly, 332

Thirsk, 4

Thomson's 'Life of the Duchess of Marlborough,' 234

Timbs, 'Anecdote biography,' 308

'Tom Jones,' see Fielding, Henry

Torrens, W.T. McC., 'History of Cabinets,' 276

Towcester, 80

Townshend, Lady, 356

Townshend, Charles, 428, 435, 441, 467, 475

Townshend, Colonel, 277

Townshend, George, 428, 441, 467

Trinity College, Chatham admitted to, 30

Trojans, 332

Tunbridge, 306

Tunbridge Wells, 304, 309, 313

Twickenham, 5, 125

Underwood's 'Historical MSS.' quoted, 257

Utrecht, 18, 21, 39, 43

Vale Royal, 14

Valliere, La, 192

Vauxhall, New, 304

Vere, Lady, 107

Vere, Lord, 107

Versailles, 109;
Palace at, 192;
replica of, in a Bavarian lake, 192;
Treaty of, 401

Very, Count, 109

Vesey, Mr., 39

Vienna threatened by the French army, 205

Villiers, George, Duke of Buckingham, 26

Villiers, Harriot, marriage with Robert Pitt, 12, 26;
mother of Lord Chatham, 12;
her family, 15;
returns to France, 15;
correspondence with her son, 38-46;
death of, 48

Villiers, Lord, 39-41

Voiture, 61

Voltaire's 'Candide' referred to, 451

Waddington, Richard, 'Louis XV. et le Renversement des Alliances'
referred to, 401

Waldegrave, Lady Betty, 108, 109

Waldegrave, James, Earl, procures Pitt letters of introduction at
Paris, 70;
on the character of George II., 194, 195;
on Sir Thomas Robinson, 345;
negotiates for Fox to enter the Cabinet, 366-8;
'Correspondence' referred to, 359, 364

Waldegrave, John, Earl, 109

Waller, 224, 236; appointed Cofferer, 237

Walpole, Horace, 2nd Earl of Orford (son of Sir Robert Walpole),
283, 412

Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford (brother of Sir Robert Walpole),
his kinship with Lord Hervey, 197;
affection for Lord Camelford, 19;
as a gossip, 352;
on Thomas Pitt, 18;
charge against Betty Pitt, 49;
_re_ Ann Pitt, 53, 54, 92, 116, 125-7;
on Pitt's behaviour to his sisters, 50;
on the Grenvilles, 133, 137, 139, 140;
on George II., 193;
on Pitt's speeches, 392, 394, 405, 421, 424, 431, 434-5, 438, 441;
his admiration for Pitt, 341, 493, 503;
on Pitt's impatience for office, 244;
on Pitt's change of opinion, 288;
on Pitt's sudden illness, 298;
on Dr. Lee's attack on Pitt, 254-5, 268;
on Pitt's resentment against the Newcastles, 300, 357;
his partiality for Fox, 368;
on Sir Thomas Robinson's appointment, 344;
on Lyttelton, 413;
on Lord Wilmington, 179;
opposes Saxon subsidy, 289;
on the Bath Ministry, 250;
on the loss of Minorca, 452, 457;
on the American war;
on the scheme of the Notables, 480-1;
letter to Bentley, 344.

Walpole, Horace, 'Memoirs of the Reign of George III.,' quotations
from, 92, 140, 268, 359, 367, 370, 374, 394-5, 462, 467, 469,
478-81.

Walpole, Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford, character of, 132, 144, 146,
254;
his love for sport, 147;
his relations with George II., 196, 219;
on the political character of George II., 194;
his relations with Pitt, 74, 75, 158-60, 170, 178, 186, 187;
his attitude towards the Prince of Wales, 152, 157;
his attitude towards Newcastle, 175-7;
supports Pelham, 314-15;
his policy regarding Spain, 145, 167, 169, 201;
on the Army, 164;
on the Secessions, 168;
supports Maria Theresa, 203;
favours the Hanoverian vote, 225;
speech on threatened landing of the Pretender, 227;
temporary resignation of, 179;
inquiry into administration of, 184;
punishment of, 183;
succeeded by Lord Carteret, 205;
fall of, 148, 149, 171-3, 178, 505, 506;
resignation of, and papers burnt by his brother Horace, 172;
impeachment of, 473;
illness and death of, 228, 229;
compared with Pitt and Peel, 230-2;
'Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole,' see Coxe, William

Walpole, Thomas, purchases Hayes, 310

Washington, George, General, 350, 397

Webster, Sir Whistler, 305

West, Gilbert, 304, 307, 309, 492;
his house at Wickham, 356

West, Molly, 352

Westminster, Treaty of, 401

Westminster School, 359

Westphalia, 306;
Treaty of, 286

Whately, Mr., 'Observations on Modern Gardening,' 309

Wickham, Chatham's honeymoon spent at, 356

Wilberforce, William, 261

Wilhelmine, Princess of Prussia, afterwards Margravine of Bareith,
151

Wilkes, John, 136, 358, 359, 491

Wilkins' 'Political Ballads,' 298

William III., indifference to England, 198, 199;
Pitt's story of his coming, 276

Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 174;
lampoon on Pitt, 235;
'Works of,' quoted, 211, 235, 465

Wilmington, Lord, 179, 216, 217, 314, 505

Wilton, Joseph, 490

Wiltshire, lands purchased in, 6

Wimbledon, Duchess of Marlborough's estate at, 234

Windsor, 156

'Wingfield MSS.' quoted, 343, 359, 474, 485

Winnington, Thomas, 250, 254

Wood, Robert, 'Essay on the Original Genius of Homer' quoted, 182

Worms, Treaty of, 208, 225

Wotton, residence of George Grenville, 113, 352, 354

Wyndham, Baron, 148, 254

Wynn, Sir Watkin, 224

Yarmouth, Lady, 280, 388, 481;
and George II., 193, 371, 464;
mistress of George II., 465;
and Pitt, 108-10, 263, 464, 472;
Fox solicits her influence to obtain a peerage, 296;
and Fox's overtures with the King, 341;
her utterance regarding, 461

Yonge, Lady, 240

Yorke, Charles, 371, 372;
interview with Chatham, 373

Yorke, Joseph, 185

Yorke, Philip, see Hardwicke, Earl of

Zoroastrians, politicians compared with, 389

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Camelford.

[2] Diary of William Hedges, III. x.

[3] Hedges, III. xii.

[4] He purchased it from Lord Salisbury about 1690. Hedges, III. xxx.

[5] The portrait of the Governor at Boconnoc represents him with the diamond in his hat. That at Chevening with the diamond in his own shoe.

[6] Camelford.

[7] Camelford.

[8] Lyte's Dunster, 494.

[9] This and the following extracts from the Governor's correspondence are all taken from the Dropmore Papers (Hist. MSS.).

[10] Lady Suffolk's Letters, i. 101-4.

[11] Camelford (italics his).

[12] Camelford.

[13] Dropmore Papers, i. 70.

[14] Camelford.

[15] Ib.

[16] Dropmore Papers, i. 75.

[17] Camelford.

[18] Camelford.

[19] Journal, ii. 45.

[20] Dropmore Papers, i. 38, 41.

[21] Tom Jones, Book xiii. Chapter i.

[22] Life of Shelburne, i. 72.

[23] Addressed: To Robert Pitt, Esqr, at Stratford, near Old Sarum, Wilts. Endorsed: 'Mr. Burchet's letter about my Sons att Eton. Febry 4th, 1722.'

[24] Lyttelton's Misc. Works, p. 650. 'Written at Eaton School, 1729.' The date is obviously wrong, for Pitt and Lyttelton both went to Oxford in 1726.

[25] Endorsed: 'from my Son William Sept. 29th: recd Oct. 10th, 1723.'

[26] Endorsed: 'from Mr. Stockwell about ye charges of my Sons going to Oxon: Novr 1726 ansd Decr 1st.'

[27] Mourning for the Governor.

[28] Endorsed: 'from Mr Stockwell about my Son Wm from Oxon: Decr 22d ansd 29th 1726.'

[29] Paduasoy.

[30] Endorsed: 'from my Son Willm Oxon Jany 20th wth ye acct ye 100 answd ye 24th 1726/7.'

[31] Endorsed: 'from my Son Willm Aprill 10th wth an acct
of 3 mos expences 47 05 0
Rems in his hand 9 15 0
In all 57 0 0

Answd Aprill 25th, wth leave to draw for 25l.'

[32] Lyttelton, Misc. Works, 665.

[33] Always spelt Needham in the peerage books, always Nedham by the family and those concerned.

[34] 'Villiers Pitt' to William Pitt. 'Tours, June 1, 1752.' Chatham MSS.

[35] Mann and Manners at the Court of Florence, i. 382.

[36] 'The Test' was a weekly paper published in 1756-7, written principally by Arthur Murphy, and inspired by Henry Fox, as may be seen from his letters. See too Orford, ii. 276, and Walpole to Mann, Jan. 6, 1757. There had been a previous 'Test' in 1756, of which there was published only one number, written by Charles Townshend. See Orford, ii. 218.

[37] Walpole to Mann, Jan. 17, 1757.

[38] To William Pitt, Oct. 10, 1751. Chatham MSS.

[39] Dutens' Memoires d'un Voyageur qui se repose, i. 31-42.

[40] Tours, June 11, 1752. Villiers Pitt to W. Pitt. Chatham MSS.

[41] Or 1787? as says a note in the Delany Memoirs, iv. 266. It matters little.

[42] Climenson's 'Elizabeth Montagu,' ii. 53. See, too, Mrs. Montagu's Letters, vol. iii.

[43] Suffolk Letters, ii. 233.

[44] Camelford MS. Cf., too, William's letter of Sept. 29, 1730.

[45] Thackeray, i. 158 note.

[46] There is a crayon portrait of her at Boconnoc, which the writer has not seen. It 'represents the strong contemplative face of a woman well past her first prime,' and was taken, apparently, in 1765.

[47] Seward's Anecdotes, ii. 355.

[48] All these letters from William to Ann Pitt come from the papers at Dropmore, unless where noted otherwise.

[49] 'To Mrs. Ann Pitt, at Mrs. Phillips's, at Bath. T. Pitt Free.'

[50] Dr. Charles Bave, a physician of the highest character at Bath. See note on Vol. I., p. 408, of Lady Suffolk's Letters.

[51] This must almost certainly be Ayscough, in spite of 'Skew's' being the hereditary nickname of the Fortescue family.

[52] These are probably Colonel and Mrs. Lanoe, with whom Ann appears to be staying at Bath.

[53] Lyttelton's Misc. Works, 619.

[54] 'Mrs. Ann Pitt, at Col. Lanoe's at Bath.'

[55] 'To Mrs. Ann Pitt jun. at Boconnock near Bodmin Cornwall.'

[56] 'To Mrs. Ann Pitt at Mrs. Phillips's at Bath. T. Pitt Free.'

[57] Same address.

[58] 'To Mrs. Ann Pitt, at Bath.'

[59] Ante, p. 56.

[60] Dr. Ayscough?

[61] 'To The Honble Mrs. Ann Pitt at St. James's House Londres.'

[62] Illegible.

[63] 'To The Honble Mrs Ann Pitt at Mrs Richard's In Pallmall, London. Angleterre.'

[64] 'To the Honble Mrs Ann Pitt at St. James's House London. Angleterre.'

[65] 'To the Honble Mrs Ann Pitt at St. James's London. Free--Will, Herbert.'

[66] Doubtless his brother.

[67] His brother.

[68] Sir William Corbett.

[69] 'To The Honble Mrs Ann Pitt at St. James's London.'

[70] Elected Feb. 18, 1735.

[71] Doubtless his brother.

[72] Lyttelton--a mere guess.

[73] Doubtless his brother.

[74] N.B.--Pope was at Stowe during this month. See Lady Suffolk's Letters, ii. 143.

[75] 'To the Honble Mrs Pitt at Kensington House Middlesex. Free--W. Pitt.'

[76] Camelford MS.

[77] Recollections of Samuel Rogers, p. 104.

[78] Grenville Papers, i. 13.

[79] Chatham MSS.

[80] Orford, i. 85.

[81] His aunt.

[82] Their cousin, Colonel the Hon. George Stanhope, who distinguished himself at Falkirk and Culloden.

[83] Letter dated Oct. 21, 1754, in the Chatham MSS.

[84] 'To The Honourable Mrs. Ann Pitt, W. Pitt.'

[85] Lady Suffolk's Letters, ii. 251.

[86] Delany, iv. 156.

[87] Walpole to Mann, Oct. 30, 1778.

[88] Ib. May 9, 1779.

[89] Delany, v. 403-5.

[90] Lady Suffolk's Letters, ii. 234.

[91] Porritt's Unreformed House of Commons, i. 35. T. Mozley when the nineteenth century was well advanced saw the constituency of Old Sarum in the person of 'a bright looking old fellow with a full rubicund face and a profusion of white hair.' Reminiscences, ii. 13.

[92] Grenville Papers, i. 423.

[93] Grenville Papers, i. 423-5.

[94] Grenville Papers, ii. 496.

[95] Ib. ii. 512.

[96] Lord Dundonald in his 'Autobiography' says that it produced 20,693_l._ p.a.

[97] Dickins and Stanton. 'An Eighteenth Century Correspondence,' 193.

[98] It seems best to call this worthy, who assumed the name of Dodington, by his patronymic; for it is his own name, and the most appropriate.

[99] Walpole to Mann, Feb. 25, 1750.

[100] Memoirs of Lady Hester Stanhope, iii. 179.

[101] See 'The New Ministry, containing a collection of all the satyrical poems, songs, &c. 1742.'

[102] Phillimore's Lyttelton, 681.

[103] Orford's George III. iii. 137.

[104] Ballantyne's Carteret, 107.

[105] Harris's Hardwicke, i. 382.

[106] These expressions are taken from Hervey's Memoirs.

[107] Dated Feb. 8, 1748. Bedford Correspondence, i. 320.

[108] Marchmont Papers, i. 84.

[109] Lord Dover's note to H. Walpole's letter of March 21, 1751.

[110] Carlisle Papers (Hist. MSS.), 172.

[111] Seward, ii. 362.

[112] Lady Suffolk's Letters, ii. 151.

[113] Hervey, ii. 195.

[114] Hervey, ii. 80.

[115] Ib. ii. 82.

[116] Parl. Hist. x. 464-7.

[117] Coxe's Sir R. Walpole, i. 575.

[118] Life of Shelburne, i. 46.

[119] Coxe's Sir R. Walpole, i. 580 note.

[120] See Temperley's Essay on the causes of this war in Trans. of Royal Hist. Soc. Series II. vol. iii. p. 207.

[121] Parl. Hist. x. 1284.

[122] Parl. Hist. x. 1280-3.

[123] Coxe's Sir R. Walpole, i. 594 note.

[124] Marchmont Papers, ii. 180, note by Rose.

[125] Life of Shelburne, i. 37. Seward's Anecdotes, ii. 309.

[126] Coxe's Sir R. Walpole, i. 695.

[127] Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 140-1.

[128] Dutens' Voyage, &c., i. 142.

[129] Life of Shelburne, i. 45.

[130] Bishop Newton's Works, i. 93.

[131] Ballantyne's Carteret, 2.

[132] Seward's Anecdotes, ii. 280.

[133] Marchmont Papers, i. 42, 73.

[134] Wood's Essay on the Original Genius of Homer, p. vii. n. (Ed. 1775).

[135] Chesterfield, v. 65.

[136] Chesterfield's Letters, iv. 358.

[137] Parl. Hist. xii. 416-427.

[138] Harris, ii. 31.

[139] Parl. Hist. xii. 561.

[140] Ib. xii. 488.

[141] Parl. Hist. xii. 490.

[142] Parl. Hist. xii. 940 note.

[143] Ib. xii. 1033.

[144] Orford, Rem. 97.

[145] Hervey, ii. 182, 228.

[146] Holdernesse to Newcastle, Nov. 22, 1756. Add. MSS. 32869.

[147] Frederick, iii. 141.

[148] Martin, Hist. de France, xv. 265. Leadam, 376.

[149] Sir C.H. Williams, i. 247.

[150] L. Stephen, English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century, 138.

[151] Parl. Hist. xiii. 136.

[152] Parl. Hist. xiii. 473 (note). Cf. Phillimore, 226. But Carteret had taken the lead of the Prince's party in the House of Lords so far back as 1737.

[153] Parl. Hist. xvi. 1097.

[154] Fortescue, Hist. of the Army, ii. 101.

[155] Marchmont Papers, i. 80.

[156] Ib. i. 176.

[157] To Mann, Jan. 24, 1744. Cf. Parl. Hist. xiii. 467 note.

[158] Orford, ii. 132.

[159] Thomson's Life of the Duchess of Marlborough, ii. 571-2.

[160] Marchmont Papers, ii. 338.

[161] H. Walpole to Montagu, June 24, 1746. Cf. Grenville Papers, i. 131. Camelford MS.

[162] H. Walpole to Mann, June 20, 1746.

[163] Marchmont Papers, i. 70.

[164] Works of Sir C.H. Williams, 1822, ii. 152.

[165] Glover, 30.

[166] Marchmont Papers, i. 67, 172. It was said that Harrington, from an interest in Lady Yonge, wife of the actual incumbent of the office, did his best to prevent Pitt's becoming Secretary for War. Ib. 97. But there was a more majestic obstacle.

[167] Parl. Hist. xiii. 1054-6.

[168] Parl. Hist. xiii. 1176.

[169] Parl. Hist. xiii. 1177.

[170] Bedford is ranked by Newcastle among the Cobham deputation, though he was First Lord of the Admiralty at the time. Perhaps he was the honest broker.

[171] Newcastle to Chesterfield, Nov. 20, 1745. Add. MSS. 32705.

[172] Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 292.

[173] Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746, in Coxe's Pelham Adm. i. 293.

[174] Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 142.

[175] Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 133.

[176] Newcastle to Chesterfield, Feb. 18, 1746.

[177] Orford, i. 110. Walpole to Mann, April 2, 1750.

[178] Cartwright to Pitt, Feb. 27, 1745 (Chatham MSS.). We obtain the exact salary more or less correctly from a lampoon.

'Hibernia, smile!
Thrice happy isle,
On thy blest ground
Twelve thousand pound
For Stanhope's found,
Three thousand clear
For Pitt a year;
So shalt thou thrive,
Industrious hive,
While these and more
Increase thy store.'

Sir C.H. Williams, ii. 166.

[179] Camelford.

[180] Cf. Underwood MSS. (Hist. MSS.), p. 405.

[181] He avowed this to Newcastle (Orford, George III. i. 82 note). But it was otherwise patent.

[182] Parl. Hist. xiv. 103.

[183] See the debate in Parl. Hist. xiv. 204.

[184] Gibbs' History of Aylesbury, 502.

[185] Torrens says (History of Cabinets, ii. 119) that this speech was revised by Pitt, but gives no authority. Almon (i. 172) specifically declares that it was written by Gordon.

[186] Parl. Hist. xiv. 502.

[187] Grenville Papers, i. 93-5.

[188] Parl. Hist. xiv. 664.

[189] Parl. Hist. xiv. 692-6.

[190] Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 370.

[191] Add. MSS. 32721.

[192] July 20, 1750. Add. MSS. 32721.

[193] Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 131, 370.

[194] Ib. ii. 396.

[195] Parl. Hist. xiv. 801.

[196] Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 225, 359.

[197] Parl. Hist. xiv. 967.

[198] Stone to Newcastle, Feb. 22, 1750/1. Add. MSS. 32724.

[199] Parl. Hist. xiv. 970.

[200] Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 144.

[201] Coxe's Pelham Adm. ii. 165.

[202] Holland House MSS.

[203] Colebrooke's Memoirs, i. 63.

[204] Earl of Rochester. Ib. 73.

[205] Wilkins, Political Ballads, ii. 312.

[206] Parl. Hist. xv. 154.

[207] September, 1749.

[208] Almon, i. 195.

[209] Pitt to Newcastle, July 25, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.

[210] Pitt to Newcastle, March 6, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.

[211] Feb. 11, o.s. 1751. Letters, ii. 97.

[212] Climenson's Mrs. Montague, ii. 51. Kielmansegge's Diary, 131.

[213] Meehan's Famous Houses of Bath, 112.

[214] Meehan, 111.

[215] Climenson.

[216] Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 235.

[217] Memorials of Lord Gambier, i. 61. Cf. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 240.

[218] Pitt to Newcastle. Tunbridge, Aug. 14, 1753. Add. MSS. 32732.

[219] Phillimore, 265.

[220] An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 388 n. See too Harris's Hardwicke, ii. 456.

[221] Timbs, Anecdote Biography, 156, quoting from The Ambulator (1820).

[222] Legge to Pitt. Berlin, July 10, 1748. Chatham MSS.

[223] Climenson, ii. 9-10. Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 181.

[224] Nuthall to Lady Chatham, March 25, 1768. Chatham MSS.

[225] Chatham to Nuthall, Oct. 7, 1772. Chatham MSS.

[226] October 6, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.

[227] October 13, 1753. Add. MSS. 32733.

[228] Pitt to Newcastle, March 7, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.

[229] Grenville Papers, i. 109.

[230] Ib. i. 111.

[231] Pitt to Newcastle, March 11, 1754. Add. MSS. 32734.

[232] Murray.

[233] This seems an allusion either to Leicester House, or, less probably, to Newcastle.

[234] Grenville Papers, i. 106.

[235] Granville Papers, i. 110.

[236] Pitt was member for Aldborough, one of Newcastle's boroughs.

[237] Phillimore's Lyttelton, 449.

[238] Phillimore's Lyttelton, 453.

[239] Grenville Papers, i. 112.

[240] Add. MSS. 32734. f. 322.

[241] Grenville Papers, i. 116.

[242] Pitt to Newcastle, April 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32735. The more elaborate draft of this letter is given with a wrong date in the Chatham Corr. i. 85.

[243] Chatham Corr. i. 89.

[244] Chatham Corr. i. 95.

[245] Add. MSS. 32735. f. 21.

[246] Harris's Hardwicke, iii. 8.

[247] The sense shows clearly that Pitt intended to write 'unwilling'.

[248] Phillimore, 466.

[249] Holland House MSS.

[250] Holland House MSS.

[251] H. Fox to Argyll, Sept. 26, 1755 (H.H. MSS.).

[252] H. Fox to the Duke of Marlborough, March 22, 1754 (H.H. MSS.).

[253] Wingfield MSS. 224b in Hist. MSS.

[254] Walpole to Bentley, March 17, 1754.

[255] Colebrooke, i. 18.

[256] An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, 230.

[257] Newcastle to Pitt, April 2, 1754, Chatham Corr.

[258] Supra, p. 335.

[259] Add. MSS. 32733. Pitt to Newcastle, April 22, 1754.

[260] Bubb, 304.

[261] Aug. 29, 1754. H.H. MSS.

[262] Bubb, 317.

[263] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 2, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.

[264] Hardwicke to Newcastle, Oct. 3, 1754. Add. MSS. 32737.

[265] Orford, i. 78.

[266] An Eighteenth Century Correspondence, p. 154.

[267] Mrs. Montagu's Letters, iii. 273.

[268] Orford, i. 406-7.

[269] Fox to Hartington, Nov. 26, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 146. Orford, i. 408. Cf. Calcraft to Digby, Nov. 26, 1754, in Wingfield MSS.

[270] Butler's Rem. i. 144.

[271] Waldegrave, 149-50

[272] Fox to Hartington, Nov. 28, 1754, in Waldegrave, p. 150. Orford, i. 142.

[273] Butler's Reminiscences, i. 145.

[274] Table Talk of S. Rogers, p. 100.

[275] Orford, i. 417.

[276] Ib. 418.

[277] See Pitt's obscure note in Chatham Corresp. i. 130, and the interpretation in Orford, i. 419.

[278] Orford, i. 420.

[279] Coxe's Lord Walpole, ii. 406.

[280] Bubb, 319-21. Orford, ii. 37.

[281] The accession of Fox to the Cabinet is beset with small difficulties of chronology. Horace Walpole in his Memoirs (i. 147) tells us that the King sent for Fox on November 29, 1754, and in a letter of January 9, 1755, announces that Fox had been admitted to the Cabinet. Yet we have Fox's own letter to Pitt of April 26, 1755, announcing that the King that afternoon had signified to him his admission to the Cabinet. (Chatham Corresp. i. 132). It is evident that Horace Walpole believed, prematurely, that the matter was settled early in January. Strangely enough our surest authority in all these transactions, except Waldegrave, who is vague and dateless, is the corrupt and perfidious Bubb.

[282] Thackeray gives a different account of this interview and of that with Charles Yorke, we know not whence derived. The account in the text is that of Charles Yorke and Hardwicke themselves (Harris, iii. 29-34) and in part Bubb, on the authority of James Grenville (p. 340).

[283] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 3, 1755. Add. MSS. 32858. See too Orford, ii. 40.

[284] Add. MSS. 32858.

[285] These two sentences are transposed for the sake of clearness.

[286] Italics ours.

[287] Italics ours.

[288] There was some family connection between Bubb and the Grenvilles, though it is not easy to trace. Bubb's property indeed, to his disgust, was entailed on Temple.

[289] Bubb, 370.

[290] Add. MSS. 32859, f. 86.

[291] Orford, ii. 45.

[292] Orford, ii. 7-9.

[293] Orford, ii. 17.

[294] 'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 483.

[295] Ib. i. 510.

[296] Ib. i. 54, 66.

[297] 'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 214-26.

[298] Souvenirs de Moreau, i. 62.

[299] Moreau, i. 58.

[300] Waddington. Louis XV. et le Renversement des Alliances, pp. 471-6.

[301] Baumer, Frederick II. and his Times, 227.

[302] Ibid. 233.

[303] Carlyle, Frederick, iv. 509.

[304] Orford, ii. 55-62.

[305] Fox to Ellis. Holland House MSS.

[306] Camelford.

[307] Walpole here professes to give Pitt's words exactly.

[308] _I.e._, suppose any man should have purposely put off bringing hither troops from Ireland, with the object of making this country appear so unprotected as to require foreign mercenaries.

[309] Orford, ii. 67-76.

[310] Parl. Hist. xv. 544-616.

[311] Bedford Corr. ii. 179.

[312] Bedford Corr. ii. 180.

[313] Orford, ii. 86-97.

[314] Orford, ii. 98-101.

[315] Orford, ii. 107.

[316] Holland House MSS.

[317] Orford, ii. 135-9.

[318] Orford says that Sackville moved for them on April 29. The Parliamentary History says that Fox moved for them on March 29 (xv. 702).

[319] Parl. Hist. xv. 702.

[320] Orford, ii. 185-6.

[321] Orford, ii. 188-90.

[322] Orford, ii. 193-7.

[323] The Consul at Genoa had warned Newcastle early in February that a surprise attack on Minorca was meditated. Mr. Corbett, who states this, (England in the Seven Years War, i. 97) excuses Newcastle for neglecting the information, one does not see why. More attention was paid to an intercepted despatch of the Swedish minister at Paris, dated February 25, 1756.

[324] Walpole to Chute, June 8, 1756.

[325] 'So also we find it recorded during the siege of Malta, that some hesitation having displayed itself on the part of the slaves in exposing themselves, during their pioneering labours, to a fire more than ordinarily deadly, the Grand Master directed some to be hanged and others to have their ears cut off, "pour encourager les autres" as the chroniclers quaintly and simply record.' Porter's 'History of the Knights of Malta,' ii. 272.

[326] Fox to Ellis, July 12, 1756. Holland House MSS.

[327] Chatham Corr. i. 158.

[328] 'Montcalm and Wolfe,' i. 413.

[329] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Sept. 2, 1756. Add. MSS. 35416.

[330] Fox to Kildare. This, an undated narrative among the Holland House MSS., seems to me the best statement from Fox's point of view. From Lord Kildare's reply it is evident that it was written and despatched towards the end of Nov. 1756.

[331] Narrative to Kildare.

[332] Fox to Stone, October 7, 1756. Holland House MSS.

[333] Ib.

[334] Fox to Ellis. H.H. MSS., Oct. 12, 1756.

[335] Newcastle to Fox, Oct. 12, 1756. H.H. MSS.

[336] Newcastle to Lady Yarmouth, Oct. 13. Add. MSS. 32868.

[337] Fox to Digby, Oct. 1756. Wingfield MSS. in Hist. MSS.

[338] Orford, ii. 253.

[339] Narrative to Kildare.

[340] Newcastle to Hardwicke, Oct. 15, 1756. Harris, iii. 73.

[341] Hardwicke to Newcastle, Oct. 19, 1756. Add. MSS. 32868.

[342] Harris, iii. 77.

[343] Grenville Papers, i. 178.

[344] Sir C.H. Williams, iii. 41.

[345] Shelburne, i. 83.

[346] Add. MSS. 35416; cf. Orford, ii. 257.

[347] Orford, ii. 259.

[348] Leadam, 445 note. Orford, ii. 259.

[349] Shelburne, i. 83 note.

[350] Add. MSS. 35870 'Powis Ho., October 24, 1756. Sunday night.'