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Colonies, ii. 184, 200; the navigation of the Mississippi, ii. 186; the Ashburton Treaty, ii. 201; Lord Shelburne to Oswald on the proposed treaty, ii. 193; Lord Shelburne to Fitzherbert on the same, ii. 195; the Loyalists, ii. 202, 205, 206; signing of the preliminaries of peace, ii. 209
American Conciliatory Bills, ii. 12, 13
American Mutiny Bill, i. 225, 299, 309, 316
Amherst, Sir Jeffery, i. 387
Amiens, Treaty of, ii. 429, 431
Annaly, Lord, i. 356
Anne, Queen, reign of, i. 20; death of, i. 22
Anson, Lord, i. 64, 69
Argyle, Duke of, i. 21
Armed Neutrality, the, ii. 77
Arden, Pepper, Solicitor-General, ii. 155, 287
Army Bill of 1768, ii. 38
Arnold, General, ii. 66
Ashburton, Lord. See John Dunning
Ashburton Treaty, i. 201, 222
Associations, petitions from, asking for shorter parliaments, etc., ii. 54; great meeting at Westminster in support of, ii. 54
Atheism in France in 1750, i. 427
Atterbury, Bishop, i. 23
Auckland, Lord. See William Eden
Auditors, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 347
Augmentation Bill, i. 351, 356, 357; ii. 38
Austria, Russian war with, ii. 371; and the French Revolution, ii. 410, 411; treaty of peace with France, ii. 414
Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin seized by France, i. 361
Balcarres, Lord, ii. 53
Baldwin, Mr., Garrick's lines on, ii. 32
Ballyhige, the wrecked Danish treasure at, 337
Bank of England suspends cash payments, ii. 412
Bank-notes, forgery of, ii. 413
Banks, country, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 342
Barré, Colonel, i. 72, 96; elected member for Wycombe, i. 97; his attack on Pitt in the House of Commons, i. 101; his letter to Lord Shelburne on Mr. Pitt, i. 102; made Adjutant-General and Governor of Stirling Castle, i. 167; dismissed from his offices of Adjutant-General and Governor of Stirling Castle, i. 212, 215; his letter to Lord Shelburne thereon, i. 212; Lord Shelburne's reply, i. 213; his speech on his services and dismission, i. 215; and Mr. Pitt, i. 215: his reply to Charles Townshend on the Stamp Act, i. 223; Lord Shelburne's letter to, on his refusal of office, i. 233; his letter to Conway refusing office, i. 234; his letter to Lord Shelburne on his (Barré's) refusal of office, i. 234; account of the Augmentation Bill debate in the Irish Parliament, i. 357; resigns office, i. 387; caricature of Lord Marchmont and Lord Denbigh, i. 416; goes abroad with Lord Shelburne, i. 424; his anecdote of the Governor of Gibraltar and the Jews, i. 444; speech on the affairs of the East India Company, i. 449; resignation of, i. 454; George III. on his joining the Government, ii. 15, 18; anecdote of, ii. 32; letter to Lord Shelburne on the War, ii. 34; and Lord Advocate Dundas, ii. 49; letter to Lord Shelburne on Dunning's motion on the influence of the Crown, ii. 54; conversation with the Duke of Richmond on the state of politics, ii. 66; his letter to Lord Shelburne thereon, ii. 66; his opinion of Edmund Burke, ii. 68; Treasurer of the Navy, ii. 90; Paymaster of the Forces, ii. 155; proposed pension to, ii. 156; Charles Fox's speech thereon, ii. 157; becomes blind, ii. 287; anecdote of, and Lord North, ii. 287; at Bowood, ii. 328; difference with Lord Shelburne, ii. 399; vacates his seat in Parliament, ii. 399
Barrington, Viscount, i. 367
Barry, Madame du, i. 484
Baskerville, the Birmingham printer, i. 275, 276
Bath, Earl of, his character, i. 34, 35; Alderman Beckford on, i. 34; anecdote of, i. 34
Bathurst, Lord, ii. 36; anecdote of, i. 68
Bayntun, Sir Edward, i. 18, 29
Bayntun, Lady Mary, ii. 322
Beauclerk, Topham, on the Irish absentee tax, i. 460
Beaufort, Duke of, i. 38
Beccaria, Cæsar Bonesana, Marquis of, i. 425
Beckford, Alderman, on Lord Bolingbroke's style, i. 25; on the Earl of
Bath, i. 34; and the East India Company, i. 296; death of, i. 417
Bedford, Duke of, and M. de Bussi, i. 100; his resolution to move for the recall of the troops from Germany, i. 103; and
