subsequent interview with the king, 386; explanation with Pitt, 392; joins Pitt in attacking the ministry, 410; but softens on a conversation with the king, 417; consents to abjure Pitt, and becomes a cabinet counsellor, 420; excites a debate in the House, by proposing to sit on the anniversary of Charles’ martyrdom, ii. 3; supports Lord Sandwich’s borough interests in the House, 11; opposed by the Tories, who now first appear as a political party distinct from jacobitism, 12; separates from Pitt on the Hanoverian question, 37; agrees to support the German treaties and the Duke of Newcastle, 41, et seq.; his political history, 42; vindicated, _ib._; becomes secretary of state, 43; insincerity of coalition, 45; brings in the Bedford party, 47; meets the Commons, 61; censured in the House for circular letters to members, 63; contest with Pitt on the naval estimates, 67, et seq.; ditto on the army estimates, 90, 91; defends Hume Campbell against Pitt’s attack, 116; his friends objected to by the Duke of Newcastle, 141; repeated sparring with Pitt, 152, et seq.; debate respecting the Swiss battalions, 156, et seq.; parliamentary squabble with Charles Townshend, 173; conduct on the calling in of foreign troops, 184; animadversion on, 214; his political conduct respecting the Prince of Wales and Leicester House, 221, et seq.; rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, 251; resigns, 252; proposed coalition with Pitt, 254, et seq.; extraordinary conversation with Pitt, 262; various arrangements for his friends, and a peerage asked for his wife and son, marks his intended politics in the Commons, 273, 274; but refused by the king, _ib._; disappointed in his political plans in regard to the Duke of Devonshire, 276; further political intrigues, 305, et seq.; his conduct in Byng’s affair, 309, 312, 325; speeches on the same in the House, 336, 344; intrigues to dismiss Pitt from power, 377; events leading to a change of ministry, 379; supports the liberty of the press, 380; gets the clerkship of the Pells in Ireland for himself and sons, iii. 3; political difference with Newcastle, 5; intrigues of parties, 10, 11; advice of Horace Walpole, 28; accepts the pay-office, under Pitt and Newcastle, 31; political intrigues between the latter and the Duke of Bedford, 181.