duchy of Cornwall, 19.; perseveres in his solicita- tions for military rank, 22.; his correspondence with the king, Mr. Addington, and the duke of York on the subject, 23.; attends a meeting of the opposition, at the house of lord Moira, 31.; a strenuous advo cate for Catholic eman- cipation, 32.; his vindica- tion of the duke of Cla- rence in the house of peers, 35.; resolves to withdraw his infant daughter from her mother, 43.; proceeds to Bath for the purpose of consulting lord Thur- low on his right to the guardianship of his daugh- ter, 44.; abandons politics on the death of Mr. Fox, 90.; goes to Portsmouth, to direct in person the em- barkation of his regiment; his address to the corps at parting, 93.; installed re- gent, 138.; his letter to Mr. Perceval, 139.; state of the British empire at the commencement of his regency, 145.; opens par- liament by commission, 154.; his rumoured rebuff of Mr. Perceval, 156.; his speech at the opening of parliament, 179.; unre- stricted regency of, 181.; his letter to the duke of York, 182.; his letter to the duke of Wellington with the baton of a British field-marshal, 252.; opens parliament in person, 257.; accompanies the emperor
of Austria to visit the uni- versity of Oxford, 287.; unpopularity of, iii. 1.; his harsh treatment of his daughter, 3.; his message to both houses of parlia ment on the events in France, 29.; prorogues par- liament in person, 136.; receives a petition from the citizens of London; his answer, 141.; his speech at the opening of parlia- ment, 144.; attacked by the people on his return from the house of lords; his message to both houses of parliament, 147.; closes the session of parliament in person, 171.; causes an act to be passed to reverse the attainder of lord Edward Fitzgerald, 185.; ascends the throne on the death of his father, 198.; his speech at the opening of parlia- ment on his accession, 202.; proposes to his ca- binet to commence pro- ceedings against his queen in order to obtain a divorce, 210.; goes in state to give the royal assent to such bills as had passed both houses, 218.; coronation of, 239.; visits Ireland, visits Slane Castle, the residence of lord Conyngham, 241.; returns to London, 243.; embarks at Greenwich for Scotland, 251.; begins to indulge those habits of se- cluded pomp which dis- tinguished his latter years, 266.; his reluctance to grant the Catholics eman-
cipation, 348.; gives his assent to the bill for eman- cipating the Catholics, 353.; death and character of, 359. Gerard, general, ii. 267. Germaine, lord George, i. 85. Gloucester, duke of, marriage of, i. 48. Godoy, don Manuel, favourite of the queen of Spain, ii. 77.; becomes the mediator between Charles IV. and his son, 80.; disgraced and sent prisoner to Grenada, 81.; released by Murat,
Gonsalvi, cardinal, iii. 7. Gordon, lord George, i. 78.; publishes a book, called "Scotland's Opposition to the Popish Bill;" his let- ter to lord Southampton, 81.; appears at the king's levee, 82. Goulburn, Mr., brings in a
bill to amend the acts re- lating to unlawful societies in Ireland, iii. 273.; made chancellor of the exchequer, 322.
Gourgaud, general, charged by Napoleon with a letter to the prince regent, iii.
Grafton, duke of, first lord of the treasury, i. 38.; his re- signation, 59. Græme, colonel, sent to Ger- many to solicit the hand of the princess Charlotte of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz for the king, i. 7. Graham, general, ii. 177. Grant, Mr. Charles, ii. 239.; appointed treasurer of the
navy, and president of the board of trade, iii. 322. Grattan, Mr., submits the
Catholic claims to the house of commons, ii. 167.; his death and character, iii. 202. Grenville, lord, makes an overture to the French go- vernment for a general congress, i. 292.; his reply Bonaparte's letter to George III., ii. 4. ; his op- position to the preliminary terms of the treaty of the peace of Amiens, 14. ; consummates the abolition of the slave trade, 62. ; declines the overture of the prince of Wales made through the duke of York, 182.; ascribes the successes of the Americans on lake Champlain to the ineffi. ciency of the British admir- alty, iii. 8.; supports the warlike policy of the ad- ministration, 30.; retires from public life, 245. Grey, lord, i. 264.; his speech on the subject of the famous Berlin decree, ii. 73.; his able and erudite law argu- ment on the circular sent by lord Sidmouth to the lord lieutenants of counties, iii. 155. Grouchy, marshal, iii. 57. Guillet de la Gevrillière, ii. 50.
Gustavus IV., king of Sweden, ii. 71.
Hamilton, lady Anne, ii. 224. Hamilton, lord Archibald, iii. 223.
Hanau, the battle of, ii. 249.
Hanger, colonel, i. 170. Hardinge, sir Henry, iii. 332. Hardwicke, lord, i. 28. Hastings, Warren, trial of, i. 176.
Hastings, lord, iii. 176. Hatzfeld, prince de, ii. 57. Hawkesbury, lord, succeeds lord Grenville in the min- istry, ii. 12. Heberden, Dr., ii. 137. Herries, Mr., made chancel- lor of the exchequer, iii. 319.; appointed master of the mint, 322. Hill, lord, iii. 76. Hobhouse, Mr., iii. 202. Holderness, lord, resigns the office of secretary of state, i. 12.; appointed governor to the prince of Wales and duke of York, 46.
Holland, lord, ii. 50. Holy Alliance, the, signed at Paris in 1815 by the three sovereigns of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, iii. 131.
Hone, Mr., tried and acquitted for publishing parodies of the litany and other parts of the church service, iii. 159.
Horner, Mr., presents to the
house of commons his fa- mous report of the bullion committee, ii. 163. Horton, Mrs., i. 48. Hotham, lieutenant-colonel, i. 53.
Howe, lord, first lord of the admiralty, i. 108.; his vic- tory, 248. Howick, lord, ii. 59. Hume, Mr., iii. 199. Hurd, Dr. Richard, bishop of Litchfield and Coventry,
i. 53.; his Whig Dialogues; his character, 54. Huskisson, Mr., iii. 136.; appointed president of the board of trade, 256.; vin- dicates and carries the bill for the alterations in the laws respecting the silk trade, 268.; succeeds lord Goderich as colonial secre- tary, 318. Hutchinson, general, succeeds sir Ralph Abercrombie in command of the Egyptian expedition; created lord Hutchinson for his brilliant services in that campaign,
Ibrahim Pacha, iii. 324. Irish rebellion of 1798, ii. 2. Isabella, Maria, infanta of Portugal, appointed regent in the name of don Pedro, resident emperor of Brazil, iii. 288.
Jena, the battle of, ii. 56. Jerome Bonaparte created
king of Westphalia, ii. 71. Jersey, lady, her intimacy with the prince of Wales and Mrs. Fitzherbert, i. 254.; appointed one of the ladies in waiting to proceed to meet the princess Caro- line of Brunswick with admiral Payne, 258.; dis- missed from the household of the princess, 259. Jervis, admiral, created lord St. Vincent, i. 290. John VI., king of Portugal,
iii. 287.; death of, 288. Joseph Bonaparte, ii. 116. Josephine, empress, ii. 147. Jourdan, marshal, ii. 119.
Junius, his letter to the king, i. 41. Junot, general, ii. 76. ; crosses
the Spanish frontier on his route to Portugal, 77. ; enters Lisbon, 78.; obtains a complete and quiet pos- session of Portugal, 94.
Keith, lord, ii. 37. Kellerman, general, iii. 57. Kent, duke of, ii. 166.; mar- riage of, iii. 170.; death of, 198.
Kenyon, lord, i. 282. King, lord, ii. 136. Kingston, duchess of, i. 26. Knatchbull, sir Edward, iii. 356.
Knesebeck, general, iii. 44. Kutusow, general, ii. 208.
Labédoyère, colonel, iii. 22.; execution of, 112. Laborde, general, ii. 95. Lade, lady, i. 215. Lafayette, i. 219.; his ani- mated harangue at the council assembled by Na- poleon after the battle of Waterloo, iii. 88. Lamb, Mr. George, iii. 202. Lambton, Mr., iii. 237. Lansdowne, lord, iii. 86.; withdraws his name from the secret committee ap- pointed to investigate the conduct of the queen, 219.; appointed secretary for the home department, : 311. Lauderdale, lord, ii. 54. Lecourbe, general, iii. 24. Leipsic, the battle of, ii. 247. Lenox, lady Sarah, i. 6. Lenox, colonel, i. 209.
Liancourt, duc de, i. 237. Ligny, the battle of, iii. 60. Lisle, Mrs., ii. 232. Liverpool, ii. 125.; succeeds lord Castlereagh in the de- partment of war and co- lonies, 129.; appointed first lord of the treasury, 192.; refuses to answer the questions of the duke of Sussex, iii. 5.; his reply to the overture made by queen Caroline, through Mr. Brougham, 222.; brings in a bill of pains and penalties to deprive her majesty Ca- roline Amelia Elizabeth of the title, &c. of queen of England, 226.
Lloyd, bishop of Oxford, iii.
Lobau, general, iii. 57. Londonderry, lord, iii. 330. Louis XVI. of France, his character, i. 236.; execu- tion of, 245.
Louis XVIII. of France, his triumphal entry into Lon- don, ii. 280.; embarks in a royal yacht convoyed by the duke of Clarence for France, 281. ; proclaims Napoleon a traitor and rebel, iii. 22.; makes his entry into Paris, escorted a second time to the throne of France by foreign bay- onets, 99.; reconstitutes his cabinet with Fouché as minister of police, 100.; denies having any hostile designs towards Spain, 263.; death of, 270. Luddism, commencement of, ii. 170.
Lutzen, the battle of, ii. 241. Lyttleton, Mr., ii. 185.
Macarthy, sir Charles, go- vernor of Sierra Leone, iii. 270.
Macdonald, marshal, iii. 102. Mack, general, ii. 40. Mackintosh, sir James, his learned and luminous re- view of the criminal law with reference to capital crime, iii. 180. ; his elo- quent eulogy on Mr. Grat- tan, 203.; makes an effort to follow up the enlightened views of sir Samuel Romilly for reforming the criminal laws, 204. Malmsbury, lord, i. 257. Maitland, general, iii. 80. Manners, lord, ii. 159. Marchand, general, iii. 21. Marie Antoinette, i. 219.; ex- ecution of, 249.
Maria Louisa, archduchess, marriage of with Napoleon, ii. 147; flight of from Paris, 275.; second marriage of, with count Niepperg, iii.
43. Marmont, marshal, ii. 202. Marsh, Dr. Herbert, bishop of Peterborough, iii. 250. Massena, marshal, ii. 149. Medina del Rio Seco, the battle of, ii. 88. Melville, lord, iii. 304.; ap- pointed president of the board of control, 322. Metternich, prince, iii. 17. Miguel, don, iii. 288. ; named regent of Portugal in the room of his sister, 333. Milton, lord, ii. 229. Minto, lord, ii. 6. Mitchell, admiral, i. 300.
Moira, lord, returns from an expedition to the coast of France, i. 247.; appointed to proceed with 10,000 men to the relief of the duke of York, 248.; his advice to the prince regent, ii. 193.; his character, 234. Moore, sir John, succeeds sir H. Burrard in the com- mand of the British troops in Portugal, iii. 101.; killed by a cannon ball in the battle of Corunna, ii. 108. ¡ Morpeth, lord, ii. 55. Moreau, general, ii. 244.; killed in the battle of Dres- den, 245. Mulgrave, lord, appointed first lord of the admiralty, ii. 61. Murat, grand duke of Berg, appointed generalissimo of the French armies in Spain, ii. 82.; retains the throne of Naples after the defeat of Napoleon, iii. 11.; defeat and ruin of, 53. Murray, lady Augusta, i. 255. Murray, sir John, ii. 256.
Napoleon Bonaparte, i. 286.; sails from Toulon, 298.; returns to Paris, 304. ; ob- tains the command of the expedition to Egypt, 305.; becomes first consul, 307.; his letters to George III. ii. 3.; receives lord Gren- ville's reply, 6.; crosses the Alps; breaks the sceptre of the German empire in the plain of Marengo; grants an armistice to the emperor, and returns to Paris in triumph; his address to the French people, 6.; proaches the English go-
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