Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)Walpole, Horace
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Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)
Walpole, Horace
Great Britain -- History -- George II, 1727-1760
Murray, Solicitor-General (Lord Mansfield), supports the Bavarian
subsidy, i. 48;
speech on second reading of the Regency Bill, 131;
parliamentary contest with Fox on the Regency Bill, 150;
affair of the dissensions on the education of the young princes,
284, 290, et seq.;
drinking the Pretender’s health, 305;
his elaborate and well-written confutation of the French memorial
on the Silesian loan, 297;
looked to as a candidate for the premiership on Pelham’s death, 379;
becomes lord chief justice, and is made a peer, anecdotes, &c.,
ii. 223, 227;
his conduct on the bill for absolving Byng’s court-martial; severe
conduct towards Byng, with observations, 351, 352.
Murray, General, defeated at Quebec, iii. 284.
Mutiny Bill, modern opposition to, i. 35, et seq.;
curious question of the King of Denmark in regard to its preamble,
253.
Names of princes, taken from English history, curious anecdote of,
i. 201.
Naples, affairs of, on the death of the King of Spain, iii. 205.
National debt, observations on, in 1758, iii. 151.
Naturalization Bill brought forward, i. 44, 54;
thrown out, 92.
Navy, diminished number of seamen voted, i. 17;
Lord Anson proposes a severe naval code, but fails, 38;
an increased vote of seamen proposed by Lord Barrington, 211;
approaching war with France, ii. 1;
a fleet ordered to watch the French motions in America, 22;
vote for seamen, 67;
debates on a Prize Bill, 78;
state of naval force at the opening of the war, 195;
consequences of Byng’s trial, 295;
affair of the Navy Bill, iii. 105.
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