Spain, close of the war in 1751, and indemnification to the South Sea Company, i. 6; political animadversions, _ib._; political state previous to the war of 1756, 398; ministerial assertions respecting her love of peace, 403; promises not to engage in the war, ii. 33; death of the king, contest for the crown, affairs of Naples, iii. 204. St. Cas, attack on, iii. 135. St. Maloes, expedition to, iii. 124. St. Simon, Marquis de, a Frenchman, offends the House of Commons by taking notes in the gallery, i. 108. Stage, act for licensing passed, i. 14. Stair, Lord, courtly anecdote of, and Queen Caroline, i. 221. Stanhope, Earl of, his republican principles, and steady party conduct, i. 116. Stanhope, Sir William, anecdote of, i. 75, _Note_. Statesmen, their faults more productive of events than their good intentions, i. 374. Style, new, proposed in the peers by Lord Chesterfield, i. 51. Stocks fall on Pitt’s resignation in 1757, iii. 5. Stone, Dr. George, primate of Ireland, his character and political influence, i. 279; eager participation in Irish politics, ii. 19, et seq.; vide _Ireland_ _passim_. Stone, Mr., engaged in the education of Prince George, i. 283; dissensions in that establishment, 289, et seq.; his influence in the ministerial changes leading to the fall of the Duke of Newcastle, ii. 43, 45; vide further under the head of _Princess of Wales_. Strange, Lord, parliamentary character, and motion on General Anstruther’s affair, i. 108, 113; speech on the second reading of the Regency Bill, 125, 139, 143. Stuart, House of, the author’s observations on the three anniversary holidays in honour of it, ii. 3; decline of their cause, 12, 23. Subsidy, vide _Bavaria_, _Prussia_, _Germany_, _Saxony_. Suffolk, Henrietta Howard, Countess of, anecdotes of, i. 52; character and political anecdote of, 176, 445, 446. Sunderland, Lord, betrayed by the Duke of Newcastle, i. 164. Suppression of vice, parliamentary committee for, appointed, i. 44. Sweetmeats, a love of, considered as a qualification for a throne, iii. 206. Sweden, want of patriotism and disregard of liberty, i. 229; revolution in, ii. 231. Swiss regiments, for American service, debates on, ii. 156, 167, et seq. Sydenham, Mr., extraordinary speech in favour of Murray the jacobite, i. 211. Talbot, Lord, political character, and speech on committal of the Regency Bill, i. 120, 121; speech on the charges against the prince’s tutors, 324. Tea tax proposed by Alderman Beckford, ii. 302.