CONTENTS.

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CHAP. I.

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George IV. George I.— George II.-Accession of George

III.- His Popularity.- Lord Bute. - Marriage of George

III.-Birth of the Prince of Wales. - Education, Cha-

racter, and Unpopularity of George III. - The Princess
Dowager and Lord Bute. - The Duke of Cumberland.
Lord Chatham. The Duke of Newcastle.- Lord Bute
Prime Minister.-Lord Bute's Peace. He unexpectedly
resigns. His supposed Intimacy with the Princess Dow-
ager.—Wilkes. — Horace Walpole. - Lord Waldegrave.—
Private Lives of the King and Queen.

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CHAP. II.

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Birth of the Duke of York. The Prince of Wales

and the Earl of Bath. Marriage of the Prince of Bruns-

wick with the Princess Augusta. - Infancy of the Prince

of Wales. First Appearance at the Drawing-room.

Fête by the Duchess of Kingston. - Marriage of the Prin-

cess Caroline Matilda. Prince of Wales's first Drawing-

Secret Influence.-Mr. George

1 room. State of Parties.

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Grenville. -Wilkes, Warburton, Lord Sandwich, and Lord

Chesterfield. Lord Chatham.

rica. King's Illness.

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Court Intrigues. — Ame-

Regency Bill. Rockingham

Edmund Burke. - Lord Chatham's Ministry.

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-Lord Temple. Charles Townshend. - General Con-

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way. Lord Shelburne.

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Lord Camden.. · Duke of

Grafton. The King and the Ministry unpopular.

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Private Life of George III. - Education of his Children.

Queen Charlotte. · Prince of Wales and Duke of York.

Their Governors and Preceptors. - Lord Holdernesse,

Mr. Smelt, Dr. Markham, Dr. Cyril Jackson. Royal

Marriage Act. - Mrs. Horton (Duchess of Cumberland).

Lady Waldegrave (Duchess of Gloucester). - Death of the

Princess Dowager. Education and Progress of the Prince

of Wales.

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Change of Governors and Preceptors. Duke

of Montague. Colonel Hotham. Hurd. Arnold.

Greek Tyrannicide Hymn. - Wilkes. Warburton.

Hume. Johnson. Dr. Parr and the Prince of Wales.

The Prince's Acquirements. — His rigorous Confinement.-

His Eighteenth Year. - His Discontents. First Appear-

ance at Court. --War. Ministry of Lord North.

Eloquence, and Death. .Burke.

Restraint of the Prince. - The Prince takes advantage of the

King's Absence. -Duke of Cumberland.-Count d'Artois.

- Mrs. Robinson. Her Character and Adventures.

Duchess of Devonshire. Garrick. Sheridan. The

Duke of York. Lord Malden. Riots. Lord George

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- Departure of the Duke of York. The Prince

Gordon.

of Wales at Court.

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and the Prince. Lord North resigns. Second Rock-

ingham Ministry. Lord George Germaine.- Connection

of the Prince of Wales with Mr. Fox and the Whigs.

Mr. Fox and his Friends. Prince's brilliant Projects. -

Rockingham. Shelburne Ministry.

Mr. Fox. The Coalition.
Establishment.

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Resignation of

The Prince of Wales. His

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Difference between the King and the

Ministers. Carlton House. The Prince's Taste for

Architecture and Upholstery. - India Bill.—Its Objects.

-Lord Fitzwilliam. - Lord Temple. Secret Influence.

Lords of the Bedchamber. - India Bill lost in the Lords.

- Vehement Philippic of Mr. Fox.- Mr. Fox and Lord

North dismissed. - Mr. Pitt Prime Minister. - Mr. Pitt

in a Minority.-Contests between the Crown and the

Commons. Private Memoirs of George III.

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Prince of Wales. - His Court. Westminster Election.

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Fête at Carlton House. Speeches of the Prince and

Mr. Fox.- Duc de Chartres.-The Prince on the Turf.

-The Brighton Pavilion. Mob at Brookes's.-New Par-

liament. Mr. Pitt's Scheme for paying the National Debt.

-The Prince's Extravagance. Carlton House. Musical

Equipages and Race Horses. Duke of Or-

leans (late Duc de Chartres.) Duke of Queensberry.

Count O'Kelly.- The Orleans' Loan. Distress of the

Prince. - Breaks up his Establishment. - Mrs. Fitzherbert.

Parties.

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-Lord Berkely. — Alderman Newnham's Motion.

Mr. Pitt. - Mr. Rolle. Mr. Sheridan.

duct of the Prince of Wales. Of Mrs. Fitzherbert.

Duchesses of Devonshire, Portland, and Cumberland.

Arrangement of the Prince's Debts.

Carlton House.- Chevalier d'Eon, &c. Return of the Duke

of York. Brighton. Lord Barrymore. - Prince Wil-
liam. His supposed Attachment. - Newmarket.— Trial of
Warren Hastings. The Prince and Sheridan. . Vacation.
-Fox and Gibbon.-King's Illness.Regency.-Question

between Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt. - Dr. Withers.- Horne

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Tooke. - The Restrictions. Mr. Rolle. The Church

and State. - Council at Carlton House.

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The Queen. Colonel Lennox and the Duke of York.

King's Visit to Weymouth. Return of Prince William.

Created Duke of Clarence.- Madame Schwellenberg.

The Duchess of Rutland. Mrs. Fitzherbert.-Lady Lade.

- Lord Barrymore. - Prince's Visit to Wentworth House.

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The Duke of Orleans and Marie Antoinette. - French

Revolution. Fox, Burke, and Sheridan. - First Political

Schism. Prince embarrassed.

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· Foreign Loan.

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Breaks

up his Establishment. Death of the Duke of Cumber-

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Expedition, and

Robespierre

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Failure. - The French Convention.

His Character. Recall of Lord Fitzwilliam.

Jersey. Marriage of the Duke of Sussex and Lady Au-

gusta Murray. The Princess Caroline of Brunswick

Debts. Fox. Grey. Sheridan.- Pitt. -

The Prince's

George III.

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Correspondence of Lady Jersey - Lord Jersey-and Dr.

Randolph. Birth of the Princess Charlotte. Separa-

tion of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

proposed by George III. Pamphlets of Jefferys.

His Death and Will. - Threatened Invasion. The Prince

of Wales. Lord Moira. Mr. Fox.

cent and Camperdown.— Negotiation at Lille.-The Prince