I. ROYALISTS AND RADICALS 1 II. BEFORE THE STORM 29 III. PEACE OR WAR? 57 IV. THE RUPTURE WITH FRANCE 85 V. THE FLEMISH CAMPAIGN (1793) 118 VI. TOULON 143 VII. THE BRITISH JACOBINS 164 VIII. PITT AND THE ALLIES (1794-5) 195 IX. THE WEST INDIES 219 X. SPAIN AND HAYTI 230 XI. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE: CORSICA: QUIBERON 250 XII. PITT AS WAR MINISTER (1793-8) 265 XIII. DEARTH AND DISCONTENT 282 XIV. THE YEARS OF STRAIN (1796-7) 299 XV. NATIONAL REVIVAL 321 XVI. THE IRISH REBELLION 339 XVII. THE SECOND COALITION 365 XVIII. THE UNION 389 XIX. THE UNION (CONTINUED) 411 XX. RESIGNATION 431 XXI. PITT AND HIS FRIENDS (1794-1805) 454 XXII. ADDINGTON OR PITT? 483 XXIII. PITT AND NAPOLEON 505 XXIV. THE LAST STRUGGLE 534 EPILOGUE 559 STATISTICS OF THE YEARS 1792-1801 571 INDEX 573 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO FACE PAGE WILLIAM PITT, IN LATER LIFE. (From a painting by Hoppner in the National Portrait Gallery) _Frontispiece_ SEAT OF WAR IN FLANDERS. 141 THE SIEGE OF TOULON. (By Emmanuel Toulougeon, Paris) 163 THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN 1793. (From a painting in the National Portrait Gallery by K. A. Hickel) 164 THE HON. ELEANOR EDEN. (From a miniature) 300 HENRY DUNDAS, FIRST VISCOUNT MELVILLE. (From a painting by Sir T. Lawrence) 484 BOWLING GREEN HOUSE, PUTNEY HEATH. (From a pencil sketch by Elsie H. Rose) 554 ERRATA Page 180, _ad fin._, _for_ "Hamilton, Rowan" _read_ "Hamilton Rowan." " 311, line 1, _for_ "formerly" _read_ "brother of." " 311, line 2, _for_ "Lord Hood" _read_ "Sir Alexander Hood." " 551, line 11 from end, _for_ "6th" _read_ "4th." ABBREVIATIONS OF THE TITLES OF THE CHIEF WORKS REFERRED TO IN THIS VOLUME ANN. REG. = "Annual Register."