Produced by MWS, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE This is Volume 3 of 3. The first volume can be found in Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57016. The second volume can be found in Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57851. The List of Illustrations has been copied from Volume I. This list describes six illustrations, two in each volume. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example M^R. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. VOL. III. [Illustration: M^R. PITT. London: Henry Colburn 1846.] MEMOIRS OF THE REIGN OF KING GEORGE THE SECOND. BY HORACE WALPOLE, YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES, BY THE LATE LORD HOLLAND. Second Edition, Revised. _WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTTOES._ VOL. III. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1847. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. CHAPTER I. A. D. PAGE 1757. Dismissal and Resignation of Ministers 1 Efforts to form a new Administration 2 Parliamentary Inquiries into the Loss of Minorca 4 Mr. Pitt’s Power and Popularity 5 Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Fox _ib._ The Inquiries into the Loss of Minorca 7 No Ministry formed 11 The Militia Bill passes _ib._ Great success of the King of Prussia 12 Various Plans for forming an Administration 14 Vote of a Million 16 Bill regulating payment of Seamen’s Wages 19 Duke of Newcastle’s irresolution 21 Rupture of Negotiation between Pitt and Newcastle 22 Duke of Newcastle’s Projects and Difficulties _ib._ CHAPTER II. 1757. Prince of Wales interferes to facilitate arrangements 25 Lord Waldegrave appointed First Lord of the Treasury 26 Resignation of the Duke of Newcastle’s friends 27 Author’s advice to Fox 28