William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose (e book reader for pc .TXT) 📖

68, 167;

  letter to Dr. Adams, 65, 66;

  sends address from combined patriotic societies to French

    Convention, 67, 68;

  circular on a General Convention, 187, 188;

  arrested, 190;

  acquitted, 192;

  letter from Thelwall to, 352 _n._

 

Hare, Captain, 160.

 

Harington, Mr., Mayor of Bath, 165.

 

Harrington, Earl of, commander of the forces in London, 319;

  his mission to Berlin, 556.

 

Harris, Sir James. _See_ Malmesbury, Lord.

 

Harrowby, Earl of (Dudley Ryder), 290, 294, 451;

  acts as Pitt's second, 334, 335;

  Foreign Secretary, 501, 514, 515, 517, 523;

  Chancellor of the Duchy, 530;

  his mission to Berlin, 538-547, 552 _n._;

  breakdown of his health, 545, 546, 553, 558;

  recalled, 556.

 

Haugwitz, Count von, Prussian Foreign Minister, 202, 206, 207, 212, 515,

    536, 537, 540, 543, 553, 560.

 

Hawkesbury, Lord, 81, 221;

  Foreign Secretary, 468, 479, 487;

  Home Secretary, 501, 507, 514, 517, 518, 521, 532, 549, 555.

 

Hayley, W., letter to Pitt, 455, 456.

 

Hayti, proposed transfer to England, 131;

  rising of negroes in, 220, 223;

  requests British protection, 220;

  its wealth and prosperity, 222, 223;

  British successes in, 223, 225-227, 232, 233;

  Spanish action in, 224, 227-229, 239;

  increasing difficulties in, 245, 246;

  English evacuation of, 247;

  267, 274, 275.

 

Hébert, Jacques René, 180.

 

Helvoetsluys, 127, 216, 267.

 

Henry, Prince, of Prussia, 207.

 

Hermann, General, 382.

 

Hervilly, Comte d', 261, 274.

 

Hesse-Cassel, compact with England, 123.

 

Hessian troops, landed in England, 188.

 

Hobhouse, Sir Benjamin, on the Finance Bill of 1797, 329.

 

Hoche, General Lazare, 162, 200, 261, 262, 277, 304, 308, 346.

 

Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, Prince of, 121.

 

Holcroft, Thomas, 167, 193,

 

Holwood House, sale of, 473.

 

Holland. _See_ Dutch Republic.

 

Holland, Lord, 330, 413, 481 _n._, 519;

  opposes the Act of Union, 421.

 

Hondschoote, battle of, 140.

 

Hood, Alexander. _See_ Bridport, Lord.

 

Hood, Samuel Lord, occupies Toulon, 134, 144, 145;

  his difficulties and quarrels, 150-160, 232, 267;

  occupies Corsica, 256, 257.

 

Hotham, Admiral (afterwards Lord), 232.

 

Horsley, Samuel, Bishop of Rochester, and afterwards of St. Asaph,

    286, 497.

 

Houchard, General, 140.

 

Howe, Admiral Lord, his victory of the 1st of June, 192, 225, 269;

  quells the mutiny at Spithead, 310-314.

 

Hugues, Victor, Republican leader in the West Indies, 239, 240, 248.

 

Humbert, General, his expedition to Ireland, 362, 394, 395.

 

Hutchinson, John Hely, General (afterwards Earl of Donoughmore), at the

    "Castlebar Races," 362;

  in Egypt, 387.

 

Hythe military canal, 512.

 

 

Illuminati, the, 26.

 

Income Tax, graduated, suggested, 20, 22, 307;

  imposed by Pitt, 329, 370, 427, 450;

  abandoned by Addington, 480.

 

India, 387, 388, 460-464, 565.

 

India Bill, Pitt's (1784), 568.

 

Ireland, Parliament refuses franchise to Catholics, 77;

  grave situation in, 278, 321, 333, 336;

  Hoche's expedition to, 304, 308;

  English loan to, 308, 347;

  the Rebellion of 1798, 330, _and see_ Chaps. XVI, XVIII;

  Earl Fitzwilliam's Viceroyalty, 339-342;

  Maynooth founded, 343;

  feuds and disturbances, 344, 345;

  Camden's policy of coercion, 345-348, 352, 355, 391;

  financial straits, 347;

  Franco-Irish plots, 349-351, 354;

  resignation of Abercromby, 354;

  progress of the Rebellion, 355-364;

  French invasions, 362-364, 394, 395;

  the Union, _see_ Chaps. XVIII, XIX;

  policy of Cornwallis, 395, 396;

  corruption in Parliament, 402, 424, 425;

  debates on the Act of Union, 411-415, 425-428;

  continued danger from France, 420, 421, 425, 430;

  financial relations with England, 425, 427, 568;

  Act of Union passed, 428;

  pocket boroughs disfranchised, 428;

  Union honours, 428, 429.

 

Isherwood, Mr., 460.

 

 

Jackson, George, his "Diaries," 546.

 

Jackson, Mrs., 547.

 

Jackson, F. L., _chargé-d'affaires_ at Madrid, 92, 229;

  recalled, 230.

 

Jacobi, Baron, Prussian Ambassador in London, 212, 213.

 

Jacobins Club, the, in Paris, 25, 26, 42, 168, 169.

 

Jamaica, sends help to Hayti, 220, 223;

  coffee-planting in, 222;

  atrocities of Maroons in, 237, 238.

 

Jassy, Treaty of, 29, 52.

 

Jay, John, American envoy to London, 291.

 

Jean François, negro leader, 239.

 

Jebb, Richard, his pamphlet against Union, 406.

 

Jekyll, Joseph, M.P., on the new taxes (1797), 330.

 

Jemappes, battle of, 57, 69, 113, 114.

 

Jenkinson, Charles. _See_ Liverpool, Earl of.

 

Jermagnan, Colonel de, 160.

 

Jervis, Sir John. _See_ St. Vincent, Earl of.

 

Johnstone, General, 361.

 

Jones, Thomas, M.P., 426.

 

Jourdan, Marshal, 140, 141.

 

Joyce, Rev. Jeremiah, letter to Horne Tooke, 190;

  arrested, 190;

  discharged, 193.

 

Jülich, Duchy of, 46.

 

June 1st, 1794, battle of, 192, 225, 269.

 

 

Kaiserslautern, battle of, 208.

 

Kalkreuth, General, 543.

 

Kaunitz, Prince, Austrian Chancellor, 5-9, 45, 50, 53, 199, 218.

 

Keir, Dr., of Birmingham, 17.

 

Keith, Sir Robert Murray, Ambassador at Vienna, 42, 46;

  begs for recall, 50.

 

Kenmare, Lord, 393.

 

Kent, Duke of, 447, 448.

 

Kenyon, Lord, 331.

 

Kersaint, Captain, his speech against England, 102, 103, 106.

 

Killala, French landing at, 362, 363.

 

King, Lord, opposes the Act of Union, 421.

 

Kinglake, A. W., 490.

 

Korsakoff, General, 375, 378, 379.

 

Kosciusko, Thaddeus, 53, 206.

 

Kyd, Stewart, arrested, 190;

  discharged, 193.

 

 

Lageard, de, witty remark of, 276.

 

Laharpe, F. C. de, 369.

 

Lake, General, 348, 357, 361, 362.

 

Lally-Tollendal, Comte de, 43, 93.

 

Lambton, John, 23.

 

Landrecies, surrendered, 210.

 

Land Tax, 30, 31;

  Pitt's Commutation Act, 331-333, 568.

 

Langara, Admiral, 144, 146, 153, 154, 157, 159, 232.

 

Lansdowne, Marquis of, Gillray's cartoon of, 35;

  intimate with Talleyrand, 51, 77 _n._;

  opposes Government policy, 87;

  opposes the Aliens Bill, 94;

  on the insult to the King, 283.

 

Larochejaquelein, Marquis de, 136.

 

Las Casas, Spanish Ambassador in London, 243.

 

Lascelles, Mr., M.P., 559.

 

Lauderdale, Earl of, 23, 179, 286;

  opposes the Aliens Bill, 94.

 

Laurence, Dr. French, 427.

 

Lebrun, P. M. Henri, French Foreign Minister, 58, 60, 69;

  account of his career, 59;

  his instructions to Dumouriez, 73, 74;

  and Maret, 79-81;

  negotiations with England, 84, 87, 89-91, 97, 104-108, 116;

  his report on the negotiations, 95, 96, 101, 113, 117.

 

Leeds, Duke of (Marquis of Carmarthen), 35 _n._;

  suggested as First Lord of the Treasury in Coalition Ministry, 36-38;

  interview with the King, 37;

  opposes the taxes of 1797, 329.

 

Lees, John, 355, 395, 396, 406, 418.

 

Leopold II, correspondence with George III on intervention in France, 2, 3;

  signs the Declaration of Pilnitz, 5, 6;

  distrusted by Pitt and Grenville, 8;

  anxious to avoid war with France, 42;

  his death, 45.

 

Lescure, Marquis de, 136.

 

Letourneur, C. L. F. Honoré, 323.

 

Lewins, Edward John, delegate of the United Irishmen in Paris, 346, 348.

 

Liancourt, Duc de, story of his flight, 63, 64.

 

Ligurian Republic. _See_ Genoa.

 

Lille, 122, 123, 127, 129;

  peace negotiations at (1797), 247, 323-325.

 

Lincoln, Bishop of. _See_ Tomline, George Pretyman.

 

Liverpool, Earl of (Charles Jenkinson), 39, 290, 322, 330, 406.

 

Liverpool, dock strike at, 62;

  press-gang at, 166, 167.

 

Livingston, Mr., American Envoy at Paris, 505, 506.

 

Lloyd, George, 169.

 

London, Preliminaries of, 468-470.

 

Long, Charles (afterwards Lord Farnborough), 415, 439, 465, 476, 557.

 

Longueville, Lord, letter to Pitt on the Union, 402, 403.

 

Lorraine, 46, 122, 142, 197, 199, 200.

 

Loughborough, Lord (Alexander Wedderburn), Lord Chancellor, 34, 35, 296,

    297, 312, 331;

  his efforts to bring about a union between Pitt and the Old Whigs,

    36-38, 39 _n._;

  on the Scottish prosecutions, 179;

  interviews with Grattan, 340;

  on union with Ireland, 391, 399;

  opposes Catholic Emancipation, 431-437, 440, 443, 445;

  his record, 431, 432;

  dismissed and created Earl of Rosslyn, 451;

  the King's comment on his death, 451.

 

Louis XVI, the flight to Varennes, 1, 4, 10;

  accepts new constitution, 7;

  letter to George III, 49;

  his trial decreed, 74, 85, 96;

  English sympathy for, 86;

  proposed appeal from England for his life, 91, 92;

  stories of Spanish and other efforts on his behalf, 92-94;

  his execution, 108, 117;

  his responsibility for the Revolution, 560.

 

Louis, Dauphin (Louis XVII), 145, 146, 156;

  his death, 259.

 

Louis XVIII. _See_ Provence, Comte de.

 

Louisa, Queen, of Prussia, 535, 536.

 

Loyal Associations, growth of, 86.

 

Loyalty Loan, 305, 306.

 

Lucchesini, Marquis di, Prussian Ambassador at Vienna, 203, 207.

 

Lunéville, Treaty of, 470, 529.

 

Lyons, fall of, 147, 151.

 

 

Macartney, Earl, his embassy to Pekin, 32;

  Governor of the Cape, 254, 255.

 

MacBride, Admiral, 269 _n._

 

McCullum, of Manchester, trial of, 185.

 

Macdonald, General, 376.

 

Macdonald, Sir Archibald, Attorney-General, 172.

 

Mack, General, 204;

  his plan of campaign (1794), 205;

  declines to serve under Coburg, 206;

  surrenders at Ulm, 534, 537.

 

Mackenzie, Sir Kenneth, 174.

 

Mackintosh, Sir James, his "Vindiciae Gallicae," 16, 23.

 

Macleod, General, M.P., 238.

 

McNevin, William James, delegate of the United Irishmen in Paris, 346, 348;

  arrested, 354, 394.

 

Macqueen of Braxfield, Lord Justice Clerk, his trial of Muir, 176,

    178, 179;

  trial of Margarot and Gerrald, 183, 184.

 

MacRitchie, W., his "Diary of a Tour through Great Britain in 1795," 265.

 

Maestricht, the French demand a passage through, 82.

 

Mainz, siege of, 130, 134, 136, 138, 200.

 

Maitland, General, evacuates Hayti, 247, 248.

 

Mallet du Pan, 6, 135, 338, 370.

 

Malmesbury, Lord (Sir James Harris), furthers proposed union between Pitt

    and the Old Whigs, 36, 38;

  on the opening of the Scheldt, 75;

  his mission to Berlin, 200-202, 204;

  makes treaty with Prussia, 206-208;

  agreement with Hardenberg, 212;

  goes to Brunswick, 214, 215;

  his mission to Paris, 321;

  negotiations at Lille, 323-326;

  his statements controverted, 434, 445, 448, 465, 550 _n._;

  urges Pitt to action, 481;

  mentioned, 90, 286, 497, 524 _n._, 537, 553, 559.

 

Malouet, Baron Pierre Victor, his "Mémoires," 92, 93;

  envoy from Hayti to England, 131, 221, 222, 239, 247 _n._

 

Malt, tax on, 30, 31, 450.

 

Malta, Pitt's policy with regard to, 255, 277 _n._, 327, 468-470, 478,

    480, 565;

  the French in, 368, 369, 373, 387, 388;

  Craig's expedition to, 525, 526;

  Russian aims in, 526-527;

  its value to England, 539.

 

Manchester, Nonconformists in, 11;

  political clubs founded, 12, 13, 17;

  disorder in, 62.

 

"Manchester Constitutional Society," 12, 168, 169, 185.

 

Mann, Admiral, 243.

 

Mansfield, Lord, death of, 303.

 

Marengo, battle of, 386, 387.

 

Maret, Hugues Bernard (afterwards Duc de Bassano), in London, 79, 83,

    94 _n._, 101;

  interviews with Pitt, 79-82, 84;

  his letter to Miles, 105-107;

  his alleged mission to London, 108-112, 117;

  ordered to leave, 112;

  on Chauvelin, 115 _n._;

  one of the plenipotentiaries at Lille, 323.

 

Margarot, Maurice, 177, 181;

  his trial and transportation, 182-184.

 

Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples, 365, 368, 372, 376.

 

Maria Luisa, of Parma, Queen of Spain, 230, 231, 237.

 

Maria Theresa, 2nd wife of the Emperor Francis II, 199.

 

Marie Antoinette, the flight to Varennes, 1, 4, 10;

  her anger, 7;

  her schemes, 7, 49, 85;

  her execution, 141.

 

Maritime Code, British, opposed by the Baltic powers, 388.

 

Markoff, Russian minister, 122.

 

Maroons, their atrocities in Jamaica, 237, 238.

 

Marseilles, the Royalists in, 144-146.

 

Martello towers, 512, 513.

 

Martinique, failure of English attack on, 221;

  capture of, 225;

  to be ceded to France, 469.

 

Masséna, André (Duc de Rivoli), 378, 386.

 

Maubeuge, siege of, 141.

 

Maulde, French envoy at The Hague, 76, 82, 83.

 

Maxwell, Colonel, 360.

 

Maxwell, Dr., of York, his order for daggers, 64, 65.

 

Maxwell, James, of York, 64, 65.

 

Maynooth College, founded, 343, 344.

 

Mealmaker, author of "An address to the People," 178.

 

Melas, Field-Marshal, 376.

 

Melvill, 324-326.

 

Melville, Lord. _See_ Dundas, Henry.

 

Mercy d'Argenteau, Count, 4, 7, 8 _n._, 205.

 

Merry, Antony, Secretary of legation at Madrid, 242.

 

Merveldt, General Count, 205.

 

Middleton, Sir Charles. _See_ Barham, Lord.

 

Miles, William Augustus, British agent at Paris, 59, 60, 79, 84, 85, 93,

    94, 99, 105, 106, 109-111.

 

Militia, the, 509, 510.

 

Militia Acts, 279.

 

Milman, Dr., the King's physician, 506.

 

Mingay of Norfolk, 188.

 

Minto, Earl of (Sir Gilbert Elliot), his motion to repeal the Test Act

    in Scotland, 13, 14;

  on Fox's conduct, 90;

  commissioner at Dunkirk, 138-140;

  commissioner at Toulon, 154, 156, 162;

  Viceroy of Corsica, 244, 256-258;

  Ambassador at Vienna, 380, 383, 384;

  speech on the Union, 421.

 

Mirabeau, Count, 2, 11, 42, 171.

 

Miranda, General Francesco, 103, 106, 109;

  ordered to prepare for invasion of Holland, 107;

  defeated by Coburg, 126.

 

Missouri River, British mercantile ports on, 244.

 

Mitchell, Admiral, his successes against the Dutch, 381.

 

Mitford, Sir John (afterwards Lord Redesdale), made Speaker, 439;

  letter to Pitt, 485, 486.

 

Moira, Earl of, 137, 158, 165, 209, 262, 268, 355, 497.

 

Möllendorf, Marshal, 201, 207, 208, 212, 217.

 

Monge, Gaspard, French Minister for the Navy, 58;

  his circular letter, 101-103, 106.

 

Montrose, Duke of, President of the Board of Trade, 501.

 

Moore, John, Archbishop of Canterbury, 294, 302;

  and Catholic Emancipation, 434, 437;

  death of, 477.

 

Moore, Sir John, on Abercromby, 240;

  in the West Indies, 241;

  in Corsica, 257, 274;

  in Ireland, 361;

  and the Volunteers, 492, 493, 510, 512, 547.

 

More, Hannah, 335, 337.

 

Moreau, General, 276, 376.

 

"Morning Chronicle," the, 66, 178;

  in the pay of the French Embassy, 66 _n._;

  prosecution of, 173.

 

"Morning Post," the, 66.

 

Mornington, Earl of. _See_ Wellesley, Marquis.

 

Morris, Gouverneur, 96 _n._;

  on the state of France in 1795, 259.

 

Moylan, Bishop, 417, 425 _n._

 

Muir, Thomas, 174, 175;

  goes to Paris, 175;

  his trial and sentence, 176, 179, 180;

  at Sydney, 177;

  his death, 177.

 

Mulgrave, 1st Lord, 148.

 

Mulgrave, Henry, 2nd Lord (afterwards Earl of Mulgrave), Chancellor of

    the Duchy, 501, 514;

  Foreign Secretary, 517, 523, 527, 538, 542, 549, 550, 552, 556.

 

Munro, British _chargé-d'affaires_ in Paris, 64 _n._, 68.

 

Münster, Treaty of (1648), 71, 76.

 

Murphy, Father John, his barbarities in Wexford, 360-362;

  hanged, 362.

 

Murphy, Father Michael, 360;

  killed, 361.

 

Murray, Sir James, envoy at Frankfurt, 108, 122 _n._, 126 _n._;

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