Fox, C.J., his sympathy with the Americans, 2; quarrels with Shelburne, 6, 14; resigns, 15; waywardness of his early career, 16; coalition with North, 38-42; mistake in opposing a dissolution, 48. France, treaty of 1783 with Great Britain, 37. Franklin, Benjamin, negotiates with Oswald, 9; overruled by Jay and Adams, 23; his arguments against compensating the loyalists, 30; ridicules the Cincinnati, 116; returns from France, 138; in the Federal Convention, 225, 250, 277, 299, 303, 305; lays the Constitution before the Pennsylvania legislature, 306; called a dotard by the Antifederalists, 313. Franklin, state of, 200, 209. Frederick the Great, on republics, 58. Free trade, 4, 134-139. French army embarks at Boston, 51. Froissart, 153. Frontier posts to be surrendered by Great Britain, 51; why not surrendered, 152. Fugitive slaves, 206, 267, 333. Fur trade, 132, 164. Gadsden, C., 122, 334. Gallatin, A., 125, 134. Galloway, Joseph, 248. Gardoqui, Diego, 209. Gates, Horatio, 108-111, 180. George III. threatens to abdicate, 3; his disgust at the coalition, 44; rebuked by House of Commons, 46; his personal government overthrown, 48; hopes the Americans will repent of their folly, 58, 141; resists the movement for abolishing slave-trade, 72; his personal government, 297. Georgia takes the lead in making the judiciary elective, 69; abandons that evil practice, 69; issues paper money, 169; ratifies the Constitution, 316. Germaine, Lord George, 39. Gerry, Elbridge, 118, 229, 243, 251, 252, 256, 269, 279, 282, 298, 303, 304, 328, 347. Gibbon, Edward, 38, 39. Gibraltar, 17, 36. Gladstone, W.E., 223, 292, 294. Gorham, Nathaniel, 252, 253, 319. Governors, colonial, unpopularity of, 67. Gower, Lord, 44. Grafton, Duke of, 5. Grantham, Lord, 17. Granville, Lord, 293. Grasse, Count, defeated by Rodney, 12, 13. Grayson, William, 162, 205, 337. Green Dragon tavern, 327. Greene, Nathanael, 94, 102, 108, 116, 122, 225. Grenville, Thomas, 11. Guadaloupe, 36. Guilford, Earl of, 44. Half-pay controversy, 106. Hamilton, Alexander, his early life, 124-126; attacks the Trespass Act, 128; calls for a federal convention, 217; advocates the impost amendment, 220; in the Federal Convention, 225, 226, 243, 244, 246, 249, 254, 279, 303, 304; on inconvertible paper, 274; on the electoral college, 287; called a boy by the Antifederalists, 313; authorship of the "Federalist," 341-343; supports the Constitution in the New York convention, 343, 344; his financial measures, 349. Hancock, John, 104, 184, 318, 319, 330. Hannibal, 158. Hargreaves, James, 267. Harrington, James, 64. Harrison, Benjamin, 337. Hartington, Lord, 293. Hartley, David, 45. Hawks, F.L., 82. Heath, Gen. William, 319. Henry, Patrick, 80, 225, 331, 335, 336, 347. Hint Club, 169. Impost amendment, 218-240. India bill, 46. Insurrections, suppression of, 269. Intercitizenship, 94.