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WILLIAM, EARL OF SHELBURNE
on the Comptrollership, i. 88; and Mr. Pitt, i. 33; and the Princess of Wales, i. 51; and Lord Shelburne, i. 83; made Secretary of State, i. 87; Lord Shelburne's letter to, on his promotion, i. 87; Mr. Fox on his promotion, i. 87; negotiations with Mr. Fox, i. 89, 95; the Vote of Credit in 1762, i. 107; Lord Shelburne's estimate of his character, i. 110; his letter to Lord Shelburne on Mr. Fox taking the lead of the House of Commons, i. 126; determines to resign, i. 141; offers Mr. Fox the first Lordship of the Treasury, i. 146; letter to Mr. Fox concerning the Paymaster- ship, i. 158; letter to Lord Shelburne on the state of Political Affairs in 1763, i. 168; letter to Lord Shelburne on his threat to resign the Presidency of the Board of Trade, i. 195; and the Duke of Bedford, i. 199; and William Pitt, i. 200; letters to Lord Shelburne on his resigning the Presidency of the Board of Trade, i. 207, 209
Button-making in 1766, i. 276
Byng, Admiral, i. 16, 63; execution of, i. 63
Cabinet Council of 1757, i. 66
Caermarthen, Lord (afterwards Duke of Leeds), removed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of the East Riding of Yorkshire, ii. 47; Lord Shelburne's motion thereon, ii. 50; takes office under Pitt, ii. 280; and Lord Lansdowne, ii. 294; resigns the Foreign Office, ii. 372
Calcraft, J., and Lord Shelburne, i. 120; and Mr. Fox, i. 123, 150, 151; letters to Lord Shelburne concerning Mr. Fox's Paymastership, i. 159; attempts to dissuade Mr. Fox from retaining the Paymastership, i. 161; letter to Lord Shelburne on his appointment as President of the Board of Trade, i. 177; on Lord Shelburne's resignation of the Presidency of the Board of Trade, i. 207; letter to Lord Shelburne on Mr. Pitt, i. 225; letter to Lord Shelburne on taking office, i. 228
Caldwell, Sir J., i. 359
Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, i. 219; on Lord Shelburne's oratory, i. 486; President of the Council, ii. 90, 155; his timidity, ii. 230; interview with Lord Shelburne, ii. 245; again President of the Council, ii. 294
Camelford, Lord, i. 56
Campbell v. Hall, the case of, i. 182
Campbell, Lord Frederick, i. 356
Canada, proposed boundaries of, i. 188, 303, 333
Canada and Nova Scotia, proposed cession of, ii. 123, 129, 140, 167
Canning, anecdote of, ii. 355
Cape Corso, i. 364
Cape St. Vincent, Admiral Rodney's victory off, ii. 36
Caracciolo, the Neapolitan Minister, i. 365
Carleton, General, ii. 135, 168; letter to Lord Shelburne, ii. 7
Carlisle, Dr. Law, Bishop of, 470
Carlisle, Lord, ii. 93, 390; resigns the office of Lord Steward, ii. 230
Carolina, North and South, i. 179, 184
Carrick, Earl of, i. 355
Carter, Mr., Master of the Rolls in Ireland, i. 239
Carteret, Lord, i. 13, 29, 31, 36, 37; ii. 146; his beauty and learning, i. 29; marriage of his daughter, Lady Georgiana, with Mr. Spencer, i. 30; anecdotes of, i. 30; death of, at Bath, i. 31;
his removal from office, i. 39; a bad letter-writer, i. 57; and Lord Hardwicke, i. 66; on the Peace of Paris, i. 119
Carteret, Lady Sophia, her marriage with Lord Shelburne, i. 222
Castries, the Marquis de, i. 82; ii. 114
Catherine, Empress of Russia, ii. 112
Catholic Emancipation, ii. 420
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, ii. 53, 70
Cavendish, Lord John, i. 279; ii. 29, 90; resigns office, ii. 153; moves the amendment on the Address on the Peace, ii. 235; his second amendment on the same, ii. 246, 248; and Charles J. Fox, ii. 153
Charter colonies, i. 180
Châtelet, Count de, i. 369, 374
Chatham, Earl of. See William Pitt
Chatham, Lady, letter to Lord Shelburne
concerning her son, William Pitt, ii. 91
Chauvelin and Talleyrand, the French Envoys, ii. 387, 403
Cherbourg, the fortifications of, ii. 303
"Cherry Cobbin," i. 46
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 4, 13, 43, 367; ii. 76; on Westminster School, i. 14; on Sardinian ambassadors, i. 109; on Lord Chatham, i. 332
Cheyne, Dr., i. 11
Choiseul, Etienne Frangois, Duc de, i. 109; on Mr. Pitt becoming Earl of Chatham, i. 282; and Grimaldi, Intrigues of, i. 285; letter to Merci, i. 286; letter to Guerchy on the Manilla