Highland regiments raised for American service, ii. 300. Highlands of Scotland, defended from the charge of jacobitism in the House of Commons, as early as 1754, ii. 15. Hillsborough, Lord, parliamentary character, i. 80; speech on the Regency Bill, 145; supports the Bill for the purchase and colonization of the Scottish forfeited estates, 259; political error and delay in the debate on the German treaties, ii. 49; projects a union of Ireland with Great Britain as early as 1757, iii. 239. History, observations on, i. 373, et seq. Hoadley, Bishop, political excellence, i. 148. Hochkerchen, battle of, iii. 148. Holbourn, Admiral, commands on the American station, iii. 40. Holderness, Earl of, character and accession to power, i. 198; disgrace at court for playing at blindman’s buff, 289; becomes secretary of state in Pitt’s administration in 1757, iii. 31; extraordinary notification to Lord G. Sackville, on his demand of a court martial, 251; further proceedings, 252. Holland, Lord, vide _Fox_. ----, extraordinary change of politics there, on the death of the Prince of Orange, i. 207; disputes with, in 1758, iii. 139, 169. Holmes, Captain Charles, unhappy misunderstandings on the question of Byng’s court-martial, ii. 340, 342. Home, Lord, parliamentary quarrel with A. H. Campbell, i. 19. Home, the author of _Douglas_, pensioned by the Princess dowager, iii. 39. Horn Tavern, the, remarkable as the first place of meeting of the Tories, as a distinct political party for general purposes, ii. 12. Howe, Captain, commences the naval war with France by the capture of three ships of war, ii. 27; naval and political character, expedition to Rochfort, iii. 50, 51. Howe, Lord, succeeds to the title, on the fall of his brother, iii. 135; gallantry in Hawke’s action, 232. Hume of Munderson, Mr., a furious jacobite in Scotland, yet patronized, i. 266. Hutchinson, Hely, his Irish politics, iii. 245, 246. Hutton, Archbishop, i. 148; promoted to Canterbury, ii. 374. Invasion of England threatened by a French armament in the Isle of Rhée, ii. 20; threats of, by France, in 1759, iii. 186; general plan of, defeated by Hawke’s victory, 232; French measures pursued in Ireland in aid of it, 239, 244.