motion against subsidiary treaties in time of peace, by Lord Harley, 254; debate thereon, _ibid._; state of parties in the House, 263; bill for colonizing the Scottish forfeited estates, 264, et seq.; prorogation and extraordinary speech of the Speaker to the King, against the management of Scotland, 275; session of 1753 opens, 293; engaged in the affairs of Nova Scotia, 295; affair of the Marriage Bill, 336, et seq.; affair of the Jew Naturalization Bill, 357, 362; proposed repeal of the Plantation Act, 364; motion for repeal of the Bribery Oath, 369; people look towards it on the ministerial difficulties arising from Pelham’s demise, 383; debates on the opening war of 1756, 403; alarm of the ministerial majority at Pitt’s spirited attack on election bribery, 408, 409; debate on the army estimates, 410; debate on the Mutiny Bill, 420; debate respecting adjournment on anniversary of King Charles’s martyrdom, ii. 3; debate on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill, 4; a division of the House falsified by Mr. Potter, 11; first appearance of the modern application of the distinctions of Whig and Tory, 12, et seq.; tempestuous opposition of Pitt to the Fox and Bedford coalition, the German treaties, &c., 55; sit till five in the morning, the longest debate then on record, 49, 133; complaint respecting circular letters, 63; debates on the votes for seamen, 67; debates on a Prize Bill, 78; charges of bribery by France, 82; debates on the army estimates, 86; committee moved on the militia question, 97; taking of notes by strangers noticed by Hume Campbell, 108; close of a long debate on the German treaties, 133; repeal of all the old militia acts to prepare for a new bill, 152; debates on Prevot’s regiment, 156; Ways and Means brought forward by Sir George Lyttelton, 176; debates on employing foreign troops, 184, et seq.; Militia Bill voted without a division, 191; vote of credit of one million opposed, _ibid._; debates on the Prussian treaty, 197; Pitt’s first Parliament, 276; ordnance estimates and Militia Bill, 301, et seq.; Byng’s sentence announced to the House by a messenger from the Admiralty, 312, et seq.; Pitt’s first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand money for Hanover, 313; further debates on Byng’s sentence, 320, et seq.; royal message, bill for absolving the court-martial from their oaths of secrecy; passes, but lost in the Lords, 350-366; inquiry into the loss of Minorca, iii. 7, et seq.; debates upon the vote of a million, 16; debates upon the Habeas Corpus, 103, 112; estimates of the year 1759, 176; debates respecting officers commissioned vacating seats, 233; debates on army estimates, 234;