Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)Walpole, Horace
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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)
Walpole, Horace
Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760
Anstruther, General, parliamentary charges against, i. 42, 56, 64, 68;
further proceedings on his case, and motion of Lord Strange, 95,
106, et seq.
Archer, Lord, seconds address in the House of Lords, in 1751, i. 8.
Argyle, John, second Duke of, his political connexion with Sir Robert
Walpole, i. 164.
---- Archibald, third Duke of, inefficient and disappointing speech
on the Scottish Colonization Bill, i. 273;
character, 275-278.
ARMY, British. Votes in 1751, i. 25;
debate on the staff, 31;
military reformation and improvement by the Duke of Cumberland, 38;
new Mutiny Bill, _ibid._;
half-pay officers first subjected to military law, _ibid._;
estimates proposed by Mr. Fox, 213;
proposed reduction, founded on the colonization of Scottish
forfeited estates, 264;
estimates in 1754, debate on, 410;
inefficient state of in England at the commencement of the war,
ii. 19;
estimates on the opening of the war, 67, 86;
affairs of the Militia Bill, of new-raised troops, of foreign
troops employed, 156-204;
camps formed and disturbances with the foreign troops, 248;
remarkable court of inquiry connected with General Fowke and Byng’s
affair, 285;
war in Germany, iii. 147;
extraordinary commissions granted, and debated on in Parliament,
233.
Army, Saxon, account of, ii. 410.
Articles of War, Naval, debates on the 12th, in the House of Commons,
in Byng’s case, ii. 318, et seq.
Ascendency, Protestant, in Ireland, in 1752, and before, i. 278,
et seq.
Ashton, Rev. Mr., a quaint preacher, anecdotes of, iii. 98, 99.
Atcheson, Sir Archibald, political insignificance in the Irish House
of Commons, iii. 73.
Austrians, defeat of, in the campaign of 1760, iii. 294, et seq.
Avarice, whimsical anecdote of, in George II., i. 176.
Ayscough, Dr., anecdotes of his tutorship of Prince George, i. 80.
Bacon, Lord, observations on, i. 374.
Baker, Alderman, a contractor, affair of, ii. 304.
Barnard, Sir John, political and civic character, i. 45, 46;
proposes a sinking fund, 218, 255;
moves a repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369.
Barri, Madame du, anecdotes and intrigues, iii. 245.
Barrington, Lord, moves a diminished number of seamen, i. 12;
proposes an increased vote of seamen, 211;
his political character, and parallel with Ellis, ii. 141, 142;
justifies the application of the 12th article of war to Byng’s case,
in the House of Commons, 320.
Bath, Lord, his political apostasy vindicated by Lord Egmont, i. 36;
parliamentary conduct on the committal of the Regency Bill, 116,
117, et seq.;
joins the Bedford Opposition on the Scottish Colonization Bill, 272;
originates the Marriage Bill in the House of Lords, and why, 337;
publishes his celebrated letter to two great men, iii. 250.
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