GRE

Grenville, George: one of Boy Patriots,
i. 410; influence in Peace of Paris
negotiations, iii. 60; Prime Minister,
69; character, 70; previous career,
71; difficulties in forming his
ministry, 73 sqq.; prosecution of
Wilkes, 76 sqq.; discredit following
it, 88; other causes of unpopularity,
90 sq.; the Stamp Act imposed on
America, ib.; Grenville's politics, 91;
relations with the King, 92; suc-
ceeded by Lord Rockingham, 100;
opposed Wilkes's expulsion, 152;
death, 182; his Election Act, 243;
policy towards America, real cause
of American Revolution, 333 sqq.;
his arguments for his scheme, 347;
desire to put America on same foot-
ing as Ireland, 349; provisions of
his Stamp Act, 350: arguments for
taxing colonies, 363 sqq.; colonial
policy, v. 200

Ge Lord (William): Speaker,

v. 23; made peer, ib.; Foreign
Secretary (1791), 292; letters on
English neutrality, 562; relations
with Talleyrand, vi. 7; account of
his mission, 9; feelings after Sep-
tember massacres, 37; policy towards
French Republic, 53, 57, 61, 63, 66,
74, 100 sqq., vii. 393; against parti-
tion of Poland, vi. 91; President of
Board of Trade, 414; on the Master-
ship of the Rolls in Ireland, ib.;
illegal sale of places, 415; on ap-
pointment of Fitzwilliam as Viceroy,
vii.40; on English party government
in Ireland, 44
Grenville, Thomas: Fox's agent to
Vergennes, iv. 311 sq.; diplomatic
mission in Vienna, vii. 37
Grey, Lord: early political career, v.
39, 93, 144, 195, 199; predictions
about Irish Union, viii. 483; sum-
mary of case against it, 484; on the
fatal consequences of repeal, 548
Grimshaw (revivalist preacher, York-
shire): sketch of his career, ii. 677
899.
Grogan, Cornelius,an old man.executed
on Wexford Bridge, viii. 95, 166
Grouchy, General: commander of
French expedition to Bantry Bay,
vii. 259
Gualterio, Cardinal: account of Irish
Protestants temp. William and
Anne, ii. 451

Guastalla, Duchy of, ceded to Spain
at Aix-la-Chapelle, i. 465
'Guatimozin' (Dr. Jebb); on legiti-

HAN

mate independence of Irish Parlia-
ment, iv. 530 n.

Guernsey: run-away couples conveyed
thither from Southampton for
marriage, i. 540

Guichen, de, Admiral: expeditions in
favour of Americans, iv. 165, 185
Gustavus III. (Sweden): character,
v. 225, 265; invasion of Finland,
226; mutiny of officers, 227, 267;
war with Denmark, 228; result,
231; deplorable position in 1788,
ib.; reaction in his favour, 266;
opposition of nobles, 267; over-
throws by violence the Constitution,
268; defeated in Finland, 270;
defeats and victories, ib.; makes
peace with Russia, 271 sqq.; sympa-
thies with French émigrés, 539, 547;
assassinated, 595

Gyllenborg, Swedish ambassador to
London, arrested, i. 257

H

Habeas Corpus Act, i. 273, iii. 581, iv.
395, 401, 448, 566, 572

Hacket, Bishop (Down): never en-
tered his diocese for twenty years,
ii. 254

Hacketstown: defeat of Irish rebels
by Antrim Militia, viii. 67
Hackney coaches: number in London,
i. 615; tax on, ii. 276

Halifax (Nova Scotia): origin of name,
i. 467

Halifax, Lord, iii. 73; Viceroy of Ire-
land, iv. 347, 363, 401, 493
Hall, Bishop: description of 'trencher
chaplains,' i. 84 n.

Halliday, Dr., Charlemort's letters to,
iv. 410 n., vi. 522

Hamilton (American statesman), iv.
162, v. 54

Hamilton (Robert); discredited the
Sinking Fund, v. 52 n.
Hamilton, Gerard (Single Speech '),
iv. 392, 458, vi. 373

Hamilton, Rev. Wm. (Irish magistrate):
letters to Government on state of
the country, vii. 274, 279, 280
Hamilton, Sackville: an old Crown
servant dismissed by Fitzwilliam,
vii. 57

Hamilton, Sir Wm.: brought Etruscan
vases to England, vi, 211
Handel: contest with singer Senesino
and Italian Opera, i.577; bankruptcy,

HAN

578; his oratorios, 579; opposition,
ib.;
'Messiah' first produced in
Dublin, 581; Handel's successes in
Ireland, ib.; Judas Maccabeus,'
his first success in England, 582;
conducted Samson' when blind,
582; great impulse he gave to
sacred music, 583

Hanmer, Sir Thomas, i. 153, 157,
163

Hanover, i. 135, 148, 380, 426, ii.
530; Hanoverian succession, i. 2,
346; Hanoverian favourites of
George I., 345; English hatred of
Hanoverians, 440, 442; charges
against, 443; soldiers in English
pay, ib. 459, 461, iii. 492

Hanway's asylum for destitute boys,
vi. 274

Harcourt, Earl of: succeeds Towns-

hend as Viceroy of Ireland (1772),
iv. 433; Revenue Boards reunited,
435; new taxation, 436; Absentee
tax, 437 sq.; reply to arguments
against, 444; measure defeated,
446; new taxes, 447: corn bounties,
449; relations with Flood, 454,
456 899.;
sends Irish troops to
America, 472, 474; discontent in
Parliament, ib.; dissolution (1776),
475; measures for securing a major-
ity, 476; recall: review of his ad-
ministration, 477; on Irish Union,
viii. 271

Harcourt, Sir Simon: speech for
Sacheverell, i. 60

Hardwicke, Lord (first Earl): Marriage
Act, i. 531, 533 sq.; on retention of
Canada, iii. 293

Hardwicke, Lord (third Earl): Vice-
roy of Ireland, viii, 527
Hardy, Admiral Sir C.: succeeded
Admiral Keppel, iv. 121, 165
Hargreaves: his spinning-jenny, vi.
190, 208; driven from his home by
mob violence, 209
Harleian MSS. purchased by public
lottery, i. 566

Harley: Chancellor of Exchequer and
Prime Minister, i. 64; made Earl of
Oxford, 138; character, 140; in-
trigues with Jacobins, 143; ani-
mosity between him and Boling-
broke, 145, 161: quarrel with Lady
Masham and dismissal by Queen, 175
Harris, Sir James: minister to Holland,

v. 79,81,; created Lord Malmesbury,
82; negotiations with Prince of
Wales, 82; peace negotiations at
Paris (1796), vii. 231; at Lille, 387;

HIG

secret understanding with Maret,
390; expelled from France, 395
Harris, Howell (Welsh revivalist):
career, ii. 657; joined militia and
preached in regimentals, 658
Harvey, Bagenal: commander-in-chief
of rebels, viii. 89, 91, 107, 109, 135;
deposed from command, 136; exe-
cuted, 168

Hastenbeck, battle of, ii. 530
Hastings, Warren; first Governor-
General of India, iii. 531; energetic
conduct of war with Hyder Ali, iv.
187; censured and his recall ordered
by House of Commons, 309; ques-
tion of arrest of his impeachment
by dissolution, v. 192

Hawke, Admiral Sir Edward, ii. 487,
540, 552

Hawkesbury, Lord: interview with De
Curt about French West India Is-
lands, vi. 105

Haynault: proposed surrender to King
of Hungary, v. 547

Hearth-tax (Ireland), ii. 278, vi. 445,
602, vii. 156

'Hearts of Steel,' iv. 425
Hebrides: Catholic population in, i.

Hertzberg, Count (Prussian states-
man), v. 278, 283, 548

Hervey, James (Methodist writer), ii.
600, 654

Hervey, Lady Mary (mother of George
R. Fitzgerald), vi. 339

Hesse, Prince of: refuses French
access to Maestricht, vi. 69
Hessian soldiers in pay of England, i.
379, vi. 4

Higgins, Francis (the 'Sham Squire'):
information to Irish Government,
vii. 99, 210 sqq., 439, viii. 14, 36,
147

HIG

High Church: chiefly consisted of
lower order of clergy, i 95
Highway robberies in London and
country, i. 527; George II. robbed
in Kensington Gardens, vi. 264 sq.
Highlands. See Scotland

Hill, Abigail. See Masham, Mrs.
Hill, Colonel (brother of Mrs. Masham):
colonel of two regiments, i. 64; in
command of expedition to conquer
Canada, 115

Hill, Rowland, ii. 628, 641 n., 650, 668,
670, 676

Hill, Sir George (magistrate, county
Derry), vii. 215, 347
Hill, Sir Richard: brutal speech
against Burke, v. 133; suggested
tax on Sunday newspapers, 164
Hillsborough, Lord: Secretary of
State, with special care of colonies,
iii. 389; compromise on American
taxation, 396; defender of Catholics
(Irish), iv. 493; opposed Bushe's
Mutiny Bill, 554; approved Irish
Volunteers, 565; opposed idea of an
Irish navy, 568; thought the time
not suited for a Catholic Bill, 572;
in perplexity about Yelverton's Bill,
582

Hindostan, ii. 541 sqq., iii. 129
Hippisley, Sir John represented
England at the Vatican temp.
George III., vii. 461

Hirsinger's correspondence (political
reports from England to France),
vi. 4, 12

Hoadley, Bishop: sermon against pas-
sive obedience, i. 54; latitudinarian-
ism: his sermon On the Kingdom
of Christ,' 270

Hobart, Major (Chief Secretary to
Buckingham and Westmorland), vi.
456, 472, 495 sq., 503, 528, 534, 564,
566, 640

Hoche, General: expedition against
Ireland, vii. 252, 382, 412
Hochkirchen, battle of, ii. 537
Hogarth: his paintings and engrav-
ings, i. 574, 575; his print of the
'Times,' iii. 64; prices of his pic-
tures, vi. 160

Hohenfriedberg, battle of, i. 454
Holbach's 'System of Nature' (defence
of Atheism), v. 305
Holland: importance to England of
its security, i. 29: English troops
sent to, 30; treaty with England,
110; Dutch method of controlling
generals in war, ib.; how affected
by Treaty of Utrecht, 133; Dutch

HOR

guarantee (1712-13), 166; joins
confederation under treaty of Hano-
ver (1722), 379; neutrality, 389, 425;
alliance with England, Austria and
Saxony, 453; Dutch soldiers sent to
England (1745), 457; disasters, 459;
revolution in favour of House of
Orange, 461; after Aix-la-Chapelle,
465; peace with France, 466;
possessions in East, ii. 21; Scotch
brigade in Dutch service, iii. 497;
contraband trade with American
rebels, iv. 171; disputes with Eng-
land, 172; joins armed neutrality,
174; treaty with America, ib.; Eng-
land declares war, 175; loss of St.
Eustatius, 179; other losses, 182;
involved in Hyder Ali's war, 188;
recognises American independence
after Yorktown, 270; truce with
England, 272; alliance with France
(1785), v. 78; Stadholder and Pa-
triots,' ib; invaded by Prussia, 80;
new Constitution, 81; dangers from
France (1792), vi. 60, 65; French
decree opening Scheldt. 67; threat-
ening letter of Clavière, 68; French
demand access to Maestricht, 69;
sail up Scheldt, ib.; the Patriots,'
70; recall of French ambassador
(De Maulde), ib.; Pensionary ob-
tains information from him, 71;
compromising French papers seized
at Utrecht, 72; critical situation,
73; Grenville calls on Holland to
arm, 74; French invasion postponed,
98; Dutch Constitution impedes
military preparation, 104; signs of
coming invasion, 111, 113: Conven-
tion declare war, 127; Holland in
power of France (1794), vii. 62; ex-
pedition against Ireland, 383; Cam-
perdown, 411

Holstein: conquered by Denmark in
1712, i. 229, v. 228

Holt, Chief Justice: died during trial
of Sacheverell, i. 63

Holt, Joseph: Irish rebel, viii. 236
sqq.

Hooghly, the: Clive's exploits on, ii.

541; the town of Hooghly captured
and plundered, ib.

Hood, Admiral Sir S., iv., 183, 214, 219,
261, v. 57

Hopkins, Commander (American), iv.

17

Horne Tooke, rector of Brentford: a
supporter of Wilkes, iii. 140, 189,
280; opponent of Junius. 264; libel
on Speaker, 571; imprisoned, 578

HOR

Horsley, Bishop: opposition to Sun-
day amusements, v. 163, 189
Horton, Mrs. (wife of Duke of Cum-
berland), iii. 501

Hosier, Admiral: tragic expedition to
West Indies, i. 381

Hospitality (Ireland): examples of ex-
travagance, ii, 320

Hotham, Admiral: defeat of French
at Savona, vii. 229

'Houghing' (Ireland), ii. 269, 382 8qq.,
iv. 355, vi. 358, vii. 377, viii. 366 sqq.
Howard, John (philanthropist), v. 284,
vi. 255 sqq., 258

Howard, Mrs. (mistress of George II.),
i. 355, 492

Howe, General: in America, ii. 539,
iii. 463; succeeds Gage in command,
487; retreats from Boston, 489;
captures New York, iv. 3; lack of
enterprise, 23; incapacity, 27; re-
treats from New Jersey, 29; con-
tinued inactivity, 56; expedition
against Philadelphia, 59; failure to
follow up victory at Brandywine,
60; opens navigation of Delaware,
ib.; recalled, 95

Howe, Lord (Admiral): commander of
fleet against America, iv. 77, 98 ;
relief of Gibraltar, 266; First Lord
of Admiralty, 319; defeat of French
at Ushant, vii. 229

Hudson's Bay: offered to English at
Conference of Utrecht, i. 118
Humbert, General: commander of
French expedition against Ireland
(Killala Bay), viii. 205; defeat, 219
Hume: on ruinous effect of National
Debt, i. 369; reception of his His-
tory, ii. 468; believed in necessity
of parliamentary corruption, vi. 381
Huntingdon, Lady, ii. 615, 626, 650,
654, 659, 670, 689, v. 174
Hussey, Bishop (Catholic): negotiation
between Government and Irish
Catholics, vii. 90, 121; first Presi-
dent of Maynooth, 127
Hutcheson, Francis: influenced liberal
movement in Scotch Presbyterian-
ism (1733), ii. 586
Hutchinson, General, viii. 212
Hutchinson, Governor (Massachu-
setts), iii. 396, 412, 417, 451
Hutchinson, Hely: on Whiteboy out-
rages, iv. 357 n.; Secretary of State
(1786), 365; Prime Sergeant, 390;
inveterate place-hunter, ib.; pro-
ceedings about Augmentation
scheme, 413, 421; his support pur-
chased in 1771, 428; Provost of

INO

Trinity College, 449; Alnager, 456;
on number of Irishmen in fleet and
army, 522 n.; report on state of
country, 528; on Catholic education,
573; on Catholic franchise, vi. 586,
vii. 118; death, 127

Hyde, Justice: house wrecked in Gor-
don riots, iii. 558

Hyder Ali: wars with English, iii. 523
iv. 185 sqq.

I

Immigration of refugees, statistics,
i. 207; English industries founded
by them, 208; part played by Scotch
and Irish immigrants in American
Revolution, iii. 481

Impey, Sir Elijah: conduct in India
censured by House of Commons, iv.
310

Incapacity of English commanders
in the war of 1741-45, i. 458
Incomes of families: English, French,
and Dutch compared, i. 607
India, East: French settlements, i.
463; conflicts between French and
English, ii. 496; state in 1760–72,
iii. 513 sqq.; contests of native
princes, 515; Clive's second ad-
ministration, 517 sqq.; attempts to
cure abuses, 519; war with Hyder
Ali, 523, iv. 185; provisions of India
Acts, 1773, iii. 529; arrangement of
possessions in peace of 1782, iv.
272; Committees on state of Indian
affairs, 309; censure on officials of
E. I. C., 310; Bills introduced, 311
sqq. 325; Pitt's India Bill enacted,
v. 74; war with Tippoo Sahib, 208;
result, 210; scheme for Russian at-
tack on, 285; French defeats, 1796,
vii. 229

Indians, American: American difficul-
ties with, iii. 294; treatment, 319;
missionary efforts, 320; war with
(1763), 338; appeals to, from both
sides, in American war, 477; em-
ployed by both sides, iv. 14;
their barbarities, 15; desolation of
Wyoming, 100; Indian war, 1779,
127

Innocent XI.(Odescalchi): disapproved
of James II.'s unconstitutional con-
duct, i. 22; enmity to Lewis XIV.,
23; abetted enterprise of William
of Orange, 25

Innocent Papists' (Ireland, 1660);
definition of term, ii. 192

Inoculation: introduced by Lady Mary

INT

Montagu into England, i. 623; into
America by Cotton Mather, ii. 20
Intermarriage between aristocracy

and merchants, i. 209; of Catholics
and Protestants, ii, 403 sqq.
Intolerance, religious: against Jews,
i. 284; against Catholics and Uni-
tarians, 290; mutual proscription
of Puritans and Episcopalians in
Virginia and New England, 299;
treatment of French Protestants, v.
306 sq.

Inventors, persecution of: Kay, Har-
greaves, Arkwright, vi. 209
Inverness: fortified by Cromwell, ii.
36; condition, 1715-78, 37
Ireland-before 18th century: con-
trast between Irish and Scotch his-
tory, ii. 101, 419; early relations be-
tween English and Irish, 102; Nor-
man Conquest protracted in Ireland,
ib.; Killing an Irishman no felony,'
103; wars of Elizabeth, 104; English
atrocities, ib.; ravages in Munster,
105 sq.; subjugation of Ulster, 107;
policy of England: religious, 109;
agrarian, 111 sqq.; exaggerated in-
fluence attributed to race in Irish
history, 413 sqq.; influence of cli-
mate, 417; and of religion, 417 sqq.
Ireland-before 18th century: land
war: speculators' craving for Irish
land, ii. 112; gigantic confiscations,
112, 115: Irish wars not wars of
nationality, 113; land system, 114;
Composition of Connaught (1585),
114, 125; land planted with English
tenants, 115; Payne's 'Description'
(1589), 117; abolition of tanistry
and gavelkind, 118: plantation of
Ulster, ib.; character of colonists,
119; beneficial results, 120; Irish
love of justice, 122; inquisition in-
to defective titles, 123; 'discoverers,'
124; the Graces, 126; violated by
Wentworth, 127; settlement of
Connaught deferred, 128
Ireland-before 18th century: Reli-
gious state of religion under Eliza-
beth, ii. 129; religious troubles
under James I., 130; growing Ca-
tholic zeal, 131; Protestant intol-
erance, 132; religious policy of
Charles I., 131; Puritan threats to
extirpate Catholicism, 134
Ireland: Rebellion of 1641: causes, ii.
135; the outbreak, 137; conduct of
Lords Justices, ib.; character of re-
bellion, 139; did not begin with a
general massacre, 140; O'Neill's pro-

IRE

clamation, 141; Scotch unmolested,
142; events in Cavan, 143; first
week of the contest, 144; letters of
Lords Justices, 147; silent about
massacres, 149; inquiry into Irish
crimes, 151; Dean Jones's report,
152; evidence of murders, 153;
crimes of Sir Phelim O'Neil, 155;
exaggerated accounts, 159; motives
of exaggeration, 160, 165; deposi-
tions in Trinity College, Dublin, 160;
extravagant accounts of Sir John
Temple, 163; exaggerations at time
of Act of Settlement, 165; probable
number of victims, 167; estimate of
evidence, 168; conduct of English
Parliament, 169; of English sol-
diers; 171; ruthless carnage, 171
sqq.; instances of humanity among
Irish, 175, 184; restraining orders
of Catholic bishops, 178; religious
element in the rebellion, 179; as-
sembly at Mulifarvan, 181; expul-
sion of English the aim of rebels,
181 various motives in the rebel-
lion, 185; Cromwell's conduct of the
war, 186; massacre of Drogheda,
187; destruction of life, 188;
children sent into slavery, 189;
Cromwellian settlement, 190; the
Restoration, ab.; proposed Act of
indemnity, 191; compromise, 192;
treatment of innocent Papists,' ib.
sq.; rigorous restrictions, 193; ne-
gotiations, 194 sq.; Act of Settle-
ment, 197

Ireland-at Revolution: Irish Parlia-
ment of 1689 almost wholly Catho-
lic, ii. 198; its acts about reli-
gion, and repealing Poyning's Law,
199; repeal of Act of Settlement,
201: reprises to purchasers of
confiscated land, 203; Act of At-
tainder, 206; treatment of ab-
sentees, ib. general character of
the Act, 208; it was not a religious
proscription, 210; a similar English
Bill of Attainder, 212; complete
Protestant ascendency in Ireland,
214

Ireland, 1700-60: Political: Scotch
remedial legislation contrasted with
opposite policy in Ireland, ii. 215;
8qq.; Irish Established Church: of
rich minority, 216; supported by
tithes, ib.; position of Catholi-
cism, 217; Catholic education for-
bidden, 218; the Charter Schools,
218 sqq., 331; absolute Protestant
aristocracy created, 224; obstacles