Byng, Admiral, sent to relieve Minorca, ii. 190, 212, 214; public clamour, 217, 228; trial of, 229, 246, et seq. 284, 291; unfair political trick, 285; is sentenced, 287; representation of the Court, 292; observations, 295; extraordinary circumstances connected with the sentence of execution, 306, et seq.; debates in the Commons, 312, et seq.; mercy refused by the King, 326; solicitation of the court martial refused, 327; case before Parliament, 328, 351-366; dies, 369. Calcraft, Mr., his political connexion with Lord Holland, ii. 42. Calcutta, affair of the Black Hole at, iii. 57. Camden, Lord, vide _Pratt_. Cameron, Dr. Archibald, romantic story of his capture as a rebel, i. 333; executed, 353. Campbell, A. H., parliamentary conduct and anecdotes, i. 19. Campbell, Mr. Hume, is brought forward again by the Duke of Newcastle in support of the German treaties, ii. 107, 108; quarrel with Pitt, 112; pensioned, 143; anecdote of his political modesty on a change of ministers, iii. 23. Canada, conquest of, iii. 169, 219. Candour, political and paternal, of Horace Walpole, and why, i. 237, et seq. Cape Breton taken, iii. 133. Caprice, public, various instances of, i. 358. Cardigan, Lord, appointed governor of Windsor Castle, i. 255. Cards and Dice taxed, ii. 177. Caricatures on cards invented by George Townsend, on Byng’s affair, ii. 228. Caroline, Queen, anecdote of, and Lord Chesterfield, i. 52; her influence over the King, and politic juggling with Sir Robert Walpole, 65. Caroline, Princess, death, and anecdotes, iii. 82, 83. Carpenter, Lord, disgraceful conduct of, on the Westminster petition, i. 26. Carrickfergus taken by Thurot’s squadron, iii. 264. Carter, Mr. (Master of the Rolls in Ireland), his character and factious politics, i. 281, 282. Chairmen and footmen of the metropolis, Colonel Hale offers to lead them against the best troops of France, iii. 234. Charles III., King of Spain, observations on, and character, iii. 205, 210. Chatham, Lord, vide _Pitt_. Cherbourg, capture of, iii. 133. Cheselden, the surgeon, anecdote of, i. 177. Chesterfield, Lord, brings in a bill for the reformation of the calendar, i. 50, 51; anecdotes and political intrigues, 51, et seq.; whimsical and courtly anecdote of, 177, 178; engages to negotiate between Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, at the Princess Dowager’s instigation, iii. 30. Cholmondeley, Earl of, character and anecdotes, i. 173. Circular letters to members of parliament, censured in the House, ii. 63. Clandestine marriages, inactivity of the bench of Bishops on a proposed bill to restrain, i. 146. Clarke, Mr., a military adventurer, plans the siege of Rochfort, iii. 43.