Edgecombe family, their opposition to the Sandwich interests in Cornwall, ii. 11; and first forms a Tory party, 12. Edward, Prince, engages in the naval service, iii. 126, 133. Egerton, Lady Sophia, most extraordinary anecdote of, respecting Byng’s execution, ii. 371. Egmont, Lord, opposes Address in 1751, i. 8; suspicion of treason, 9; parliamentary discussion, 11; political intrigues in Westminster, 14; opposes the Mutiny Bill, 35, 40; anecdote of him, 35; curious opposition manœuvre on death of the Prince of Wales, 80, 81; proposes to Lord Bolingbroke the renewal of feudal tenures as a popular act, 209; ingenious speech on army estimates, 213; speech against the Address, and opposition to the Mutiny Bill of 1753, 294, 295; makes a ridiculous mistake in opposing the Mutiny Bill, 421; is attacked by Charles Townshend, _ib._; copy of the constitutional queries ascribed to him, i. 9, 427. Egremont, Earl of, moves address of condolence on the death of the Prince of Wales, i. 80; declines to accept the seals on Pitt’s dismissal, iii. 2. Epigram on Admiral Vernon, i. 100, 101. Election Committees in the new parliament of 1754, i. 407. Elections, general, policy of France respecting, in regard to the Pretender’s cause, i. 122; purity of, infringed by the people themselves, 355. Elijah’s Mantle, a political allusion, borrowed by Walpole from a poem by Sir C. H. Williams, i. 230. Elliot, Commodore, engages and takes Thurot and squadron off the Isle of Man, iii. 265. Ellis, Welbore, political character, and parallel with Lord Barrington, ii. 141, 142; parliamentary tactics, by which Fox loses an important question, iii. 27. Eloquence, parliamentary, review of it, ii. 144, et seq. Embden, political differences respecting the impressment of English sailors out of, i. 261. Empress-Queen, her politics in regard to Hungary and Austria, i. 241; her inveteracy against Prussia, iii. 247. Epitaph on a Swedish nobleman, i. 443, 444. Erskine, Sir Henry, military and political debut, i. 41; military and political attack on General Anstruther, 56, 63, 68; is dismissed from the army for joining Mr. Pitt, and becomes an oppositionist, ii. 150. Exchequer, chancellorship, not to remain unoccupied, i. 378. Excise, praised by Sir George Lyttelton, ii. 181. Exotic plants principally introduced into England, by the Duke of Argyle, i. 278. Fane, Lord, prevails on the Duke of Bedford to coalesce with Fox, and support the German treaties, ii. 47. Fawcett, Mr., accuses the prince’s tutors of drinking the Pretender’s health, i. 304. Fazakerley, Mr., his activity in the first formation of the Tories as a distinct party for general political purposes, ii. 12.