ABINGDON, earl of, on the slave-trade, 241
Addington, Henry, made prime minister, 341;
resigns, 367; created Lord Sidmouth, 374;
his character of earl St. Vincent, 544
Adelaide, princess of Saxe Meiningen, her
marriage, 468; history of her family, 475;
her early life, 481; her taste, 537; celebra-
tion of her birth-day, 557, 572; her urban-
ity, 625

Admiral, lord high, that dignity revived, 576
Adultery,debates on the prevention of, 321, 343
African slave-trade, debates on, 228, 241, 314,
307

Alexander, the emperor, declares war against

England, 394; Buonaparte marches into
Russia, 433; proclamation of Alexander,
ibid; his visit to England, 441; his death, 559
Algiers, bombarded by Lord Exmouth, 455;
taken by the French, 631
Althorp, lord, character of, 645
Amelia, princess, death of the, 413
America, revolutionary war of, 24, 64; plan
laid there to seize prince William, 64, 71;
peace restored, 82, 86; hostile to England,
398; declares war, 434; peace concluded, 450
Amiens, peace of, 351

Andromeda, frigate, commanded by prince
William, 162

Anecdotes, William, duke of Cumberland, 10,
13; prince of Wales, 16; Zoffany, 21;
prince William, 23; count Parades, 28; lord
Rodney, 33, 35, 57, 74, 75, 121; Don Juan
Laugara, 46; Frederick the Great, 47, 108;
admiral Hawke, 53; admiral Kempenfelt,
54 general Eliott, 62; Horatio Nelson, 23;
Don Galvez, 89; emperor Joseph, 98, 107;
prince George of Mecklenberg, 109; capt.
Rogers, 116; Mr. Moodie, 123; admiral
Boscawen, 135; prince William at Plymouth,
141; admiral Payne, 44; capt. Elliston, 146;
admiral Holloway, 152; prince William at
Jamaica, 166; prince Edward, 199, 499; duke
of Orleans, 201; Mrs. Jordan, 210, 332, 335,
426; prince Augustus, 222; chevalier d'Eon,
224; admiral Forbes, 264; Sir Hugh Palliser,
265; admiral Duncan, 283, 359; admiral Bul-
len, 285; captain Westcott, 301; lord Howe,
319; George III, 330, 346, 509; Nell Gwyn,
333; Sheridan, 392; Louis XVIII., 397,
439; lord Collingwood, 411; lieutenant
Green, 424; Matthew Hardcastle, 425; duke
of Wellington, 436; the emperor Alexander,
442, 444; captain Brisbane, 456; princess
Charlotte, 461; queen Charlotte, 474;
George IV,, 531; duke and duchess of Cla-
rence, 533; queen of Wurtemberg, 538;
earl St. Vincent, 515; William IV, 610, 669;
queen Adelaide, 631; Sir Robert Wilson,
622; the king, 669, 713; Sir Charles We-
therell, 734

Antigua, naval abuses at, 149, 154; arrival of
prince William there, 151; insurrection of
the slaves, in 672

Antwerp, negociation of a loan at, 220;
bombardment of, 438

Appendix,(anecdotes of William IV.) 768-775
Artois, comte de, resides at Holyrood house,
262; succeeds Louis XVIII., 548

Atlas, singular occurrence at the launch of
the, 92

Auckland, lord, his bill to prevent adultery,321
August, an auspicious month, 9

Austria, converted into an empire, 385

B

Barbadoes. the inhabitants of, present a sword
to prince William, 151; hurricane at, 699
Barffeur, prince William serves in the, 81
Barrington, admiral, account of, 337

Bath, royal visit to, 457, 462
Beattie, Dr., travels with the duke of Cla-
rence, 484, 533, 539, 549, 561
Beechy, sir William, anecdote of, 253
Belgium, revolution in, 631; declared inde-
pendent, 648; prince Leopold elected king
of, 679

Belzoni, his discoveries in Egypt, 489
Berri, assassination of the duke of, 515
Bergen op zoom, siege of, 438
Biron, marechal, his liberality, 33
Blenheim, loss of the, 402

Blucher, marshal, toast given by, 451
Boscawen, admiral, anecdotes of, 135, 136,
Mrs., her spirit, 138

Bourbons, expelled from France, 631
Bowen, captain Richard, account of, 388
Bridport, lord, mutiny in his fleet, £77
Brighton, address to the king from, 602;
royal visit to, 623

Brisbane, captain, anecdote of, 456
Bristol, royal visit to, 463; riots at, 732
Broke, captain, his gallantry, 434
Brougham, Henry, the advocate of queen
Caroline, 518; made lord chancellor, and a
peer, 641; on the reform bill, 721
Brunswick, singular circumstances in the
family of, 9; death of the duke of, 386; the
duchess dowager of, arrives in England, 596
change of government in, 673
Brussels, revolution at, 631

Buckner, admiral, mutiny in his fleet, 78
Bude, general, governor to prince William,
17; attends him to Germany, 94
Bullen, admiral, noble conduct of, 286
Burgess, captain, killed, 285
Buonaparte, invades Egypt, 296; assumes the
consular government, 318; seizes Hanover,
365; murders the duke d'Enghein, 368;
takes the imperial title, ibid: his letter to
George III, 371; invades Portugal, 305;
his rage at Boulogne, 423; makes his bro-
ther king of Spain, 433; enters Russia, id;
retreats, 434; defeated, 438; exiled to Elba,
439; returns to France, 451; sent to St.
Helena, and dies there, 529

Bushy park, duke of Clarence made ranger
of, 289; settled on the queen, 625; opened
to the public, ibid.

C

Cambridge, duke of, his narrow escape, 165;
marriage of, 464, 469; grant to, 467
Campbell, Dr., on the herring fishery, 197; on
the value of Milford haven, 133
Camperdown, battle of, 285

Canning, Mr., anecdote of, 502; becomes
prime minister, 576; death of, 579
Carlisle, lord, challenged by LaFayette, &7
Carlton-house, grand fete at, 418

Caroline Matilda, queen of Denmark, cruelty
to, 20

Caroline of Brunswick, married to the prince
of Wales, 251; delivered of a daughter, 962;
inquiry into her conduct, 384; parliamentary
discussion on, 448; returns to England, 519;
trial of, 520; claims of, 521: dies, 530
Carteret, captain, gallantry of, 423
Catherine, the empress, her ambition, 218;
her death, 263

Catholic relief bill, speech of the duke of
Clarence on, 593

Cato-street, conspiracy in, 512

Chapone, Mrs., anecdote related by, 23

Charles X., of Frauce, coronation of, 518;
deposed, 630; takes refuge in England, 631
Charlotte, queen, visits Bath for her health,
457, 462; goes to Bristol 463; death aud
character of, 472

Charlotte, princess, birth of, 262; her elope.
ment, 448; her marriage, 454; dies in child-
bed, 458; anecdotes of, 461
Chesterfield, lord, anecdote of, 202

Cholera morbus, in Europe, 681; appears at
Sunderland, 760; history of its progress, 761
Cintra, convention of, 404

Clarence, prince William, created duke of,
170; historic notices of the title, 180
Clarence-lodge, fire at, 196

Clarke, sir Alured, made field-marshal, 616
Clerk, John, claims the invention of breaking
the line, 73; refuted, 77

Cochrane lord, lands in the isle of Scio, 584
Codrington, admiral, defeats the Turkish fleet,
582; commands a fleet in the channel; 681
Collingwood, lord, disapproves of rash enter-
prises, 288; his correspondence with the
duke of Clarence, 377, 379, 401, 409; Nel-
son's letter to, 403; his activity, 408; death
of, 411; letter to lady, ibid.
Colpoys, admiral, mutiny in his ship, 278
Cooper, colonel, anecdote of, 538
Copenhagen, attacked by lord Nelson, 342;
again by lord Gambier, 393
Cork, prince William entertained at, 157
Cornwallis, admiral, letter of, 206
Coronation of George IV., 528; of Charles
X., of France, 548; of William IV., 701
Corsica, island of, abandoned, 270
Corunna, battle of, 404

Crillon, duke de, his letter to general Eliott, 61
Cumberland, William duke of, his death and
character, 10

Henry Frederick, duke of, his marri-
age, 19; death of, 207

prince Ernest, created duke of, 302;
his speech on the war, 353; marries, 451
opposition to, 468; a son born to, 495;
speech on the catholic bill, 557; assaulted
by the mob, 730

D

Darby, admiral, commands the channel fleet,
55; relieves Gibraltar, 59
Denmark, persecution of the queen of, 20;
expeditions against, 341, 393
Derby, riots at, 727

Digby, admiral, prince William placed under
the care of, 47; takes a Spanish convoy, 48;
relieves Gibraltar, 59; sails to America, 64;
on the grant to, 164

Divorce bills, abuse of, 320, 343

Douglas, sir Charles, anecdotes of, 55, 75
Drinkwater, colonel, his account of the siege

of Gibraltar, 44; anecdotes related by. 47,49
Droits of admiralty, appropriation of, 400
Dudley, earl, opposes the reform bill, 719,
his house attacked by a mob, 729
Duncan, admiral, his speech to the sailors,
283; defeats the Dutch fleet, 285; created a
peer, 286; death of, 369

Dutch, account of their fishery, 127; fleet
defeated, 285; fleet in the Texel surrenders,
306; restore the house of Orange, 438;
defeated at Brussels, 632

E

Education, institution for naval, 676
Edward, prince, birth of, 14; returns home
without leave, 199; created duke of Kent,
302; marries, 468; daughter born to, 495;
death and character of, 496

Egypt, French invasion of, 298; discoveries
in, 489

Elba, Buonaparte sent to, 439

Eliott, general, letter of. 62
Elizabeth, princess, her marriage, 462; returns
to England, 623

empress of Russia, death, 560
Elliston, captain, anecdotes of, 145
Elphinstone,capt., prince William sails with,77
Enghien, murder of the duke de, 368
Eon, chevalier d', account of, 223
Frnest, the pious, account of, 476
Errol, earl, marries Elizabeth Fitzclarence, 526
Erskine, lord, attains the great seal, 382,
deprived, 391; death of, 545

Exmouth, lord, bombards Algiers, 455
F

Fair Isle, described, 125

777

Falkland, lord, killed in a duel, 406; his son
marries Miss Amelia Fitzclarence, 647
Fayette, La, challenges lord Carlisle, 87
Fisheries, importance of the, 120, 127
Fleet, English, mutinies in the, 276, 280
Fleets, combined, enter the channel, 26
Fitzclarence, George, early anecdote of, 332;
serves under the duke of Wellington, 438;
exiled to India, with his brother Henry,
448; returns to England, 487; created earl
of Munster, 677

Frederick, serves in Spain, 404, 405,
438; seizes the Cato-street conspirators, 513
Adolphus, enters the navy, 404
particulars of the family of the, 429
Forbes, admiral, account of, 263
Ford, sir Richard, account of, 210

Fox, Charles, extraordinary act of, 219; his
secession from parliament, 294; death of, 384
France, insidious conduct of, 24; peace with,
86; hostilities with, 239; peace with, 346;
war renewed, 352; revolution in, 631
Francis, the emperor, changes the imperial
title, 385

Frederic, king of Bohemia, and his consort, 10
Frederic, William, death of prince, 14

Frederic, duke of York, his education, 16, 56;
employed in a secret mission, 103

Frederic, the great, anecdotes of, 47, 94, 108
Free-masons, persecuted, 101: prince William
becomes a member of the, 141

Fulton, his destructive invention, 436

G

Galvez, Don, his generosity, 89
Gambier, admiral, bombards Copenhagen, 393
Gardner, lord, death of, 406

Gascoyne, general, defeats the reform bill, 662
Geary, admiral, commands the channel fleet,51
George III., his domestic virtue, 15; anec-
dotes of, 24, 146; his illness and recovery,
169; displeased with his sons, 178; assaulted,
261; two providential escapes of, 329, the
fiftieth year of his reign celebrated as a
jubilee, 407; attacked by a mental malady,
413; his death, 504; character and anecdotes
of, 505, 511; his memory, 537

George IV., his accession, 512; coronation
of, 528; visits Ireland and Germany, 520;
goes to Scotland, ibid; his illness and death,
602, 604; character, 605

Germany, prince William sent to, 93; royal
visits to, 530, 531, 549, 561
Gibraltar, siege and relief of, 35, 44, 59
Gilpin, Mr., his description of the siege of
Gibraltar, 59; anecdote related by, 116
Gloucester, duke of, marries lady Waldegrave,
20; death of, 376; his son opposes the slave
trade, 389; marries the princess Mary, 454;
his speech on the reform bill, 723
Goderich, lord, succeeds Mr. Canning, 579;
character of, 645; on the reform bill, 720
Gottingen, English princes educated at, 96, 221
Gower, admiral, prince William sails with,
115, 162

Grasse, count de, ill-treatment of, 35; Rod-
ney's opinion of, 76

Greece, prince Leopold accepts the crown of,
600; revokes his assent, 601
Green, lieutenant, anecdote of, 423
Grenville, lord, his administration, 382
Grey, earl, opposes the Irish union, 308; ap-
pointed first lord of the treasury, 641; his
speeches on the reform bill, 714
Gwyn, Nell, anecdotes of, 334
H

Halifax, Nova Scotia, reception of prince
William at, 147

Hamburgh, cholera morbus at, 681

Hampton, address of the inhabitants of, 625
Hanover. entered by the Prussians, 339;
oppressed by the French, 365; discontents
in, 678

Hardcastle, Matthew, anecdote of, 425

Horsley, bishop, on the slave trade, 242; on
female seduction, 327

Hoste, lady, liberality of the king to, 626
Hotham, admiral, gains a victory, 247
Howe, earl, examines prince William, 114;
anecdotes of, 153, 159; death, 318
Howick, lord, his motion for the catholics, 391
Hurd, bishop, tutor to the princes, 23
Hutchinson, lord, sent to queen Caroline, 518
Hyde park, reviews of the volunteers in, 358;
grand review of the guards in, 620

Ibrahim pacha, defeat of, 582
Impregnable, the flag-ship of the duke of
Clarence, 442

Incendiaries, tried and convicted, 647

India, designs of the French on, 299; con-
quests in, 487

Inglis, Dr., his sermon at New York, 64
Ionian islands, taken, 408

Ireland, prince William arrives in, 156: rebel-
lion in, 296; union of Great Britain and,
308, 338; royal visit to, 530; inflamed state
of, 651, 671

Ireland, Samuel, his literary forgery, 266
Italy reduced by the French, 270

Kaimes, lord, on extravagant rewards, 165
Keat, Dr., anecdote of, 615

Keates, sir Richard, account of, 72, 78, 404, 448
Keith, lord, death of. 540
Kempenfelt, admiral, anecdote of, 54
Kent, prince Edward, created duke of, 302;
marries, 469; daughter born to, 495; death
and character, 496

duchess of, guardian to her daughter,
646 parliamentary grant to, 699; scandal
on, 712
Keppel, admiral, his indecisive action, 25;
epigram on, 51
Kettle-drums, ptesented to the royal blues, 674
Key, alderman, excites a false alarm, 637;
made a baronet, 696

Kirkwall, in Orkney, visited by prince Wil-
liam, 123
L

Langara, Don, defeated by Rodney, 40; his
remark on prince William, 47

Launch, sublimity of a ship, 139

Lee, Benjamin, saved by prince William, 91
Leghorn, rise of, 133

Leipsic, battle of, 438

Leopold, prince, marries the princess Char-
lotte, 454: accepts the crown of Greece, and
retracts, 600; elected king of belgium, 679;
defeated by the Dutch, 680

Lewes, in Sussex, royal visit to, 627
Lewis, isle of, described, 126
Liebenstein, salubrity of the baths of, 485
Linden-tree of Morgentheim, 556
Line, on breaking the, 73
Liverpool, royal visit to, 384

earl of, illness and death of, 575, 376
London, the king declines dining with the
corporation of, 637, 673

bridge, ceremony of opening. 693
bishop of, preaches the coronation
sermon, 706

Londonderry, marquis of, on the reform bill,
720; assaulted by a mob, 729

Louis, admiral, sails up the liber, 271
Louis XVIII,, his reply to Napoleon, 368, lands
at Yarmouth, 396; entertained at Carlton
house, 419; restored, 439; his death, 546;
character of, 548

Louis Philippe, of Orleans, takes the crown
of France, 631

Lucas, alderman, accident at bis civic feast,
581

M

Macaulay, Mr., on the reform bill, 689
Macbride, admiral, account of, 336
Mackintosh, sir James, on the reform bill, 689
Majendie, Dr., tutor to prince William, 16;
succeeded by his son, 23

Malcolm, sir John, ou the reform bill, 680
Malta, importance of, 347, 353

Maria, Donna, of Portugal, lands in England,
589

Markham, Dr., tutor to the elder princes, 16;
resigus, 23

Martin, admiral, gallant exploit of, 409
Mary, princess, marries the duke of Glouces
ter, 454

Marriage act, occasion of the royal, 208
Masquerade, curious adventure at one, 142
Mecklenburg, prince George of, account of,
109; death of the duke of, 452

Medina Sidonia, duke de, anecdote of, 125
Meiningen, history of the family of Saxe,
475; description of the principality, 453;
duchess dowager of, 587

Melbourne, lord, character of, 645
Melville, lord, his trial, 383
Mergentheim, scenery of, 556

Miguel, Don, lands in England, 585; his ty
ranny, 670

Milford haven, its importance, 131

Moira, earl, relieves the duke of York, 245
Moodie, Mr., anecdote of, 123, 769

Moore, sir John, death of, 404
Moravian works, described, 532

Moscow, burnt by the Russians, 434

Munster, colonel George Fitzclarence, cre-
ated earl of, 677

Murray, lady, married to the duke of Sussex,
223

sir George, on the reform bill, 590
Mutiny in the fleets, 277, 280

Naiad, frigate, gallant action of, 423
Names of ships, absurd ones, 140
Naval architecture, society for improving, 226
procession to St. Paul's, 290
education, institution for, 676

Navigation act, enforced, 148
Navarino, battle of, 562

Negro, gratitude of a, 168

Nelson, Horatio, his first interview with
prince William, 84; character of, 148; his

marriage, 150; conduct imitated, 154; visits
the prince, 161; neglected, 205; compliments
the duke of Clarence, 231; his application
for employment, 235; answer of the duke,
ibid; obtains a ship. 239; correspondence,
243, 246, 208, 272, 281, 300, 363; prophecy
of, 271; fails in his attack on Teneriffe, 288;
gains the battle of the Nile, 298; bombards
Copenhagen, 342; speech on the peace, 350;
death of, 377; funeral, 379; eulogy on, 380;
his letter to Collingwood, 403
Newcastle, duke of, his mansion burnt by a
mob, 727

on Tyne, visited by the cholera, 760
Newfoundland, royal incident at, 147
New York, prince William Henry in danger
at, 66

Nieuwied, account of the princes of, 501
Nile, battle of the, 298

Nootka sound, dispute relative to, 203

Nore, mutiny at the, 278

Northesk, lord, applied to by the mutineers,

280; on the slave trade, 390

Nottingham, riots at, 727

O'Connell, his revolutionary projects, 691
Ogden, an American, his plan to seize prince
William, 66

Oldenburgh, duchess of, visits England, 439
Oliver, Dr., his verses on Bath, 462

Orange, house of, restored to Holland, 438;
expelled Belgium, 649

prince of, the proposed spouse of the
princess Charlotte, 453; rejected by the
Belgians, visits England, 681
Orkneys, royal visit to the, 123
Orleans, duke of, anecdotes of, 35; visits
England, 199; his cowardice, 201

Louis Philippe, duke of, chosen king
of the French, 631
Orthes, battle of, 438

P

Palliser, sir Hugh, tried and acquitted, 25 ;
anecdotes of, 265

Parades, count de, a French spy, 28
Paris, insurrection at, 630
Parker, sir Hyde, sent against Copenhagen, 341
sir Peter, death of, 432

the mutineer, account of, 280
Parliament, sudden dissolution of, 668
Parliamentary reform, bill for, 657; lost in
the lords, 663; revived, 749

Paul the emperor, his violence, 338; death of,

343

Faul's, St., naval procession to, 290; thanks-
giving for the peace at, 447

Payne, admiral John, anecdotes of, 144

Pedro, Don, deprived of the Brazilian throne,
and lands in England, 671

Peel, sir Robert, his declaration on reform,
635; resigns, 640; speeches on the reform
bill, 665, 688, 691

Pegasus, frigate, commanded by prince Wil-
liam, 141

Perceval, Mr., made chancellor of the exche-

quer, 392; brings in the regency bill, 416;
assassinated, 432

Pitt, Mr., resignation of, 341; resumes office,
death and character, 380

Plymouth, prince William presented with the
freedom of, 142

Poland, subjugated by Russia, 219: erased
from the map of Europe, 263; revolution
in, 619

Pole, admiral, account of, 768
Population, return of, 764

Porchester, lord, speech of, on reform, 751
Portsmouth, mutiny in the fleet at, 276; en-
tertainment of the lord high admiral at, 578
Portugal, entered by the French, 395; de-
fended by England, 404; the throne usurped
by Miguel, 589

Prince George, the introduction of prince
William on board the, 26

Prussia, prince William visits, 94; deception
of the king of, 916; reduced by Buonaparte,

779

386; a party to the treaty of Tilsit, 393;
king of, visits England, 441
Pyramids, discovery made in the, 489
Q

Quebec, prince William sent to, 155
Queen, dower settled on the, 661; she visits
the house of lords, 697

Quentin, colonel, court-martial on, 487

R

Radstock, admiral lord, account of, 558
Raitt, captain, account of, 410
Ramilles, attempt to destroy, 435
Rammohun Roy, account of, 492

Reform, parliamentary bill for, 657, 685
Regency bill, debates on the first, 169; pass-
ing of the second, 413

Regatta, description of a splendid, 587
Rhine, confederation of, 385

Rodney, admiral, anecdotes of, 32; defeats a
Spanish fleet, 40; on the herring fishery,
121; death of, 230; anecdote of his son, 232
Rogers, captain, anecdote of, 116

Roscius, patronage of the young, 377
Russell, lord John, introduces the bill of par-
liamentary reform, 654; plan of, 657, 685;
speech of, 754

Russia, ambitions designs of, 219; violence of
the emperor Paul of, 338; enters into a con-
federacy against England, 393; Napoleon
enters, 433; retreats, 434; emperor Alexan-
der visits England, 441

S

Salamanca, battle of, 432; commemoration
of, 617

Saxony, historic sketch of the house of, 475
Schwellenberg, madame, story about, 178
Scotland, royal visit to, 530

Shannon, frigate, gallant action of, 434
Sheridan, letter written by him for the prince,
176; his remark on the catholic bill, 392
Shetland isles, visited by prince William, 24
Slave trade, debates on the, 228, 241, 315, 367;
abolished, 387

South, James, knighted, 616
Spain, war with, 26; armament against,

war with, 246; treachery of Buonaparte to,
403; campaign of the English in, 404, 436
Stornaway, in the Hebrides, described, 126
Sussex, duke of, early anecdotes of, 221; mar-
ries lady Augusta Murray, 223; defends that
for parliamentary reform, 723
T

Talavera, battle of, 406

Talleyrand, his correspondence with Fox,
383; his deceitful conduct, 385
Teddington, loyalty of the village of, 622
Teneriffe, unfortunate attack on, 288

Thomas, bishop, anecdote concerning, 23
Thunderer, launch of the, 713

Thurlow, lord, advice of to the prince of
Wales, 200

Tiber, an English commander sails up the,271
Tilsit, treaty of, 392

Timbuctoo, communication respecting, 491

Tin-works in Cornwall, visited, 134

Toulon, evacuation of, 243

Trafalgar, battle of, 377

Trowbridge, admiral, anecdote of, 289; lost
in the Blenheim, 402

Turkey, designs of Russia on, 218
U

Union with Ireland, 308, 339

V

Valiant, commanded by the duke of Clarence,

205

Victoria, birth of the princess, 495; her guar-
dianship provided for, 646; parliamentary
grant settled on, 699
Vimiera, battle of, 404

Vincent, earl St., defeats the Spanish fleet,
274; his death and character, 541
Vittoria, battle of, 436

Volunteers, enthusiasm of the, 294; grand
review of, 358

Vyvyan, sir Richard, his speech on reform,
661

780

W

Waddingdon, Rev. G. account of, 768
Wales, princess dowager of, her death and
character, 21

Wales, George prince of, early history of, 15,
16, 24; his public breakfast in honour of his
brother, 115; anecdotes, 121, 142; visits
prince William at Plymouth, 168; his letter
to the king, 175; libels on, 198; advice of
Thurlow to, 200; loan negociated for, 220;
letter of d'Eon to. 223; his marriage, 251;
settlement on, 253 the princess Charlotte
born, 262; letter of to the king, 303; heads
the opposition, 307; visits Liverpool, 384;
appointed regent of the kingdom, 416; his
grand fete, 418; his letter to lord Welling-
ton, 437; interview with Louis XVIII., 439;
visited by the emperor Alexander and king
of Prussia, 443; goes in procession to St.
Paul's, 447; assailed by a mob, 457; loses
his daughter, 459; succeeds to the throne,512
See George IV.

Walsh, sir J. B., on the reform bill, 688
Warrington, capt. trial of, 740

Warwick. prince William sails in the, 77
Washington, general, sanctions a plan to seize
prince William, 65

Waterloo, battle of, 451; commemoration of,

586

Wellesley, marquis, employed to arrange a
ministry, 432

Wellesley, sir Arthur, (duke of Wellington,)
lands in Portugal, 404; gains the battle of
Salamanca, 433; and that of Vittoria, 436;
letter of the prince regent to, 437; receives
a contusion, 438; defeats Napoleon, 451;
made prime minister, 585; resigns, 640; his
speech on the reform bill, 718; his house
attacked by a mob, 729

Westcott, captain, account of, 301
Wetherell, sir Charles, opposes the reform
bill, 693; his reception at Bristol, 733;
anecdote of, 734; his speech, 755

West Indies, the duke of Clarence attached
to, 241, 390; hurricane in, 699; disturbed
state of, 766

Wharncliffe, lord, his speech on the reform
bill, 717

Wilberforce, Mr., his speech on the royal
marriage act, 472

Wilson, sir Robert, anecdote of, 622
Windsor, fete on the king's birth day at, 625
Windsor-park, opened to the public, 624
Winter, admiral de, taken prisoner, 285;
anecdote of, 370

William Henry, prince, born, 7: juvenile
anecdote of, 16; sails with admiral Rodney,
38; Spanish prize named after, 39; Don
Juan Langara, 47; narrow escape 55; goes
to America, 64; plot to seize him, 65; placed
under admiral Hood, 81; goes to Jamaica,
85; corresponds with Don Galvez, 89; saves
a brother midshipman, 91; goes to Germany,
94; passed as lieutenant, 114; sails on a

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cruise, 115; narrow escape, 116; made cap-
tain of the Pegasus, 141; sails to Halifax,
147; goes to the West Indies, 148; under
Nelson, 149; returns without leave, 156,
sent abroad in the Andromeda, 162; visits
Jamaica, 166; returns home, 170; gives a
fete on the king's recovery,171; created hike
of Clarence, ibid; commands the Valiant, 905;
defends the slave trade, 229, 241, 315, 367,
387; justifies the war, 238; his speech ot
the debts of the prince of Wales, 255: made
ranger of Bushy-park, 289; commands a
body of yeomanry, 296; speech on adultery
bill, 321, 343; defends the peace, 347; his
panegyric on lord Nelson, 380; visits Liver-
pool, 384; separates from Mrs. Jordan, 496;
his family, 429, admiral of the fleet, 452, 442
negociates a marriage with the princess of
Meiningen, 464; treaty suspended, 465;
renewed, and the nuptials solemnized, 409;
the duchess delivered of a daughter, who
dies at Hanover, 482; the duchess again
delivered of a princess, 526; the income of
the duke raised, 527; their royal highnesses
visits to Germany, 533, 549, 561; duke made
lord high admiral, 577; but resigns, 569; his
speech in favour of the catholics, 593; sue-
ceeds to the throne, 608,by the title of William
IV.; his declaration in council, 609; pro-
claimed, 610; attends the chapel royal, 614;
his first levee, 616; speech at the close of
parliament, 618; his activity, 620; grand
review in Hyde-park, 621; acts of benevo-
lence, 626; king's visit to Lewes, 697;
speech at the opening of parliament, 632;
prevented from dining with the lord mayor,
637 change of ministry, 661; bill intro-
duced for a reform of parliament, 657; lost
in the commons, 663; parliament dissolved,
669; silver kettle-drums given to the royal
blues. 674; celebration of the king's birth-
day, 676; speech to parliament, 682; gives
his assent to the queen's dower, 698; his
coronation, 701; proclamation, 745; anec.
dotes of, 768

Wolley, admiral, account of, 562
Wrecking, scandalous practice of, 124
Wurtemberg, queen of, her marriage, 293;
visits to, 535, 556; comes to England, 579;
death and character of, 580

king of, arrives in England, 621
Wynford, lord, on the reform bill, 721
Y
Yarmouth, accident to the prince at, 116
York, Edward, duke of, his death, 41

Frederic, duke of, visits his brother
at Plymouth, 158; his marriage, 226; goes
to the continent, 239; expedition to Holland,
306 has the guardianship of the king, 494;
libelled. 521; death of the duchess, 525;
death of his royal highness, 575

Zoffany, the painter. anecdote of, 21
Zoological garden, royal present to, 627