Temple, Lord, opposes the repeal of the Jew Naturalization Bill, i. 360, et seq.; solicits mercy of the king for Admiral Byng, at the request of seven members of the court-martial, but is refused, ii. 326; his tiresomeness in council, 378; comes in with Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle, as lord privy seal, iii. 31; parliamentary squabble with Lord Lyttelton, 119; resigns the privy seal on being refused the garter, 228; but returns, _ib._ Tessin, Count, the Swedish minister, his despotic policy, in imitation of the Pelhams, i. 229. Test, a weekly paper begun by Charles Townshend; only one number published, ii. 218. Thomas, Dr., Bishop of Peterborough, appointed preceptor to the Prince of Wales, i. 292. Thurot, Mons., invades Ireland with a small squadron, but is defeated, and falls, iii. 224, 262, et seq. Ticonderoga taken, iii. 211. Times and manners, view of, in 1757, ii. 278; iii. 297, et seq. Tories, first noticed as a political body distinct from jacobitism, ii. 12; acquire importance in the House by uniting to bold a balance between Fox and Newcastle, _ib._; further manœuvres in opposition to Fox, 13, et seq.; opinions on the calling in of foreign troops, 184, 185; their feeling towards Pitt on his becoming first minister, 276, 305; Tory aldermen attempt to promote a petition in favour of Byng, but fail, 368; join with Pitt’s friends to form an opposition, iii. 3; election of a chancellor at Oxford, 166; weaned from their opposition to Pitt by militia commissions, 185. Torrington, Lord, exerts himself in the cause of his uncle Byng, ii. 309. Townshend, Charles, opposes the Marriage Bill, i. 340; attacks Lord Egmont on his absurd conduct respecting the Mutiny Bill, 421; his long speech on the German treaties, in opposition to Newcastle, ii. 121; parliamentary squabble with Fox on the question of foreign troops in America, 173; extraordinary conduct and political shuffling on Byng’s affair, 349; witticism on Fox’s sinecure grant of the pells in Ireland, iii. 4. Townshend, Colonel George (afterwards brigadier-general), character of, i. 39; attack on General Anstruther, 56; complains to the House against Mr. Fox’s circulars, ii. 64; procures the repeal of all the old militia acts preparatory to a new one, 152; next in command to Wolfe at Quebec, iii. 171; succeeds Wolfe in the command in Canada, but treats his memory unhandsomely, 222. Townshend, Lord, political anecdotes of, i. 163, 164. Townshend, Lady, political anecdotes of, i. 39. Transportation, commutation to hard labour in the dock-yards, proposed as a substitute for, i. 255.