Wales, Princess of, character and anecdotes, i. 76; behaviour on death of the Prince, 77; education of her children, 79; kindness of the king, 83; changes in her household, 92; the regency affair, 99, et seq., 139, 146, et seq.; the Princess Matilda, a posthumous child, born, 201; differences in the tutorship of the Prince of Wales, 284; appears in public with the same honours as the late queen, 289; interference in the politics of the day, 418; her projects for governing her son, ii. 36; conduct in regard to his proposed marriage, _ib._; interference in politics, 39; opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47; her conduct on the prince attaining majority, 204, 205; anecdotes of Lord Bute, 205; proposed plan of removing the prince, 221; Leicester-house politics and change of ministry, 249, et seq.; total rejection of Fox’s overtures, in 1757, at Leicester-house, iii. 6; further manœuvres, 25, 30, 121. Wall, General, political anecdote of, i. 398. Walpole, Horace, moves the address in the Commons in 1751, i. 8; his sarcasms against the Devonshires accounted for, 196; praiseworthy candour, 233, 234, et seq.; the pretended memorial on the education of the Prince of Wales, 298; his part in the breach between Pitt and Lyttelton, 414; and of a union between Pitt and Fox, 415; speech on the Swiss regiments, ii. 163; applied to by Fox on his rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, but declines interference, 254, 255; urges Keppel to apply to be absolved from his oath, 327; extraordinary fact relative to Byng’s affair, 370; advice to Fox, to save him from the precipice of political ruin, iii. 28; observations on, and apologies for, his work, 158; draws his own character, 159. Walpole, old Horace, political character, with anecdotes, i. 140, et seq.; his remarkable speech on the Saxon treaty, 242; speech and vote different, 254. Walpole, Lord, his replies to Lord Bolingbroke’s letters and principles, i. 222. Walpole, Sir Robert, inconsistency of his political opponents at close of the Spanish war, i. 7; witticism on Sir W. Yonge, 23; financial expertness, 32; politic advice to the Duke of Cumberland, 105; his reasons for supporting the Duke of Newcastle, 163; contrasted with Bolingbroke, 225; parallel between him and Pelham, 229, et seq. War of 1756, as so called, first announced to the House of Commons by order of the King, ii. 18. Warburton, Dr., promoted to the see of Gloucester, iii. 239. Washington, General, his first action, whilst a major in British service, in the war of 1756, i. 399; his curious despatch, and the king’s remark, 400. Watson, Admiral, retakes Calcutta, iii. 57; his successes and death, 89, 90. Ways and Means, vide _Commons_.