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WILLIAM, EARL OF SHELBURNE
Treasury by the Earl of Bute, i. 146; his proposals for a new Ministry to the Earl of Bute, i. 148; determines to remain Paymaster and be a Peer, i. 150; memorandum to the Earl of Bute on the resignation of the Paymastership, i. 151; his letter to Mr. Nicholl on the same subject, i. 153; Mr. Nicholl's observations thereon, i. 153; letter to the Earl of Bute concerning the Paymastership, i. 156; J. Calcraft's letters to Lord Shelburne concerning the Paymastership, i. 159; J. Calcraft attempts to dissuade him from retaining the Paymastership, i. 161; his interview with the King, i. 162; letter to Calcraft concerning Lord Shelburne, i. 162; his disagreement with Lord Shelburne, i. 162; he proposes to the Earl of Bute that he should be made a Viscount, i. 163; finally determines to leave the House of Commons, i. 163; is made Lord Holland and retains the Paymastership, i. 164 5 and Rigby, anecdote of, i. 165
France, government of, in the seventeenth century, i. 17; the war with, i. 185; end of the war, i. 194; relations of, with the Genoese, i. 363; treaty with the Genoese, i. 364; the annexation of Corsica, i. 368; state of, at the death of Louis XIV., i. 426; and the American Colonies, i. 485; government of, ii. 355; assistance given by, to the American Colonies, ii. 2; and the American Colonies, treaty between, ii. 12, 14; Lord Shelburne's opinion on an alliance with, ii. 112; Charles James Fox on an alliance with, ii. 114; and the American Colonies, ii. 114; the demands of, in the negotiations for peace, ii. 187; George III. to Lord Shelburne on the cessions to, ii. 213; demands the cession of Dominica, ii. 217; accepts Tobago instead, ii. 217; Lord Shelburne's speech on the treaty with, ii. 301; sale of church property in, ii. 377; the war with, ii. 402; negotiations with, ii. 413, 414; negotiations for peace, ii. 429; war again declared with, ii. 432; articles of peace between Great Britain and, 448
Francis, Philip, the translator of Horace, i. 219
Franklin, Benjamin, i. 221, 467, 468; Wedderburne's invective against, i. 468; dismissed the office of Post-master for America, i. 468; Commissioner of the American Colonies, ii. 117; his letter to Lord Shelburne, ii. 118; Lord Shelburne's reply to his letter, ii. 119; his memoranda of his conversation with Richard Oswald, ii. 122; Lord Shelburne's second letter to, ii. 128; Oswald's second interview with, ii. 129; Oswald's third interview with, ii. 138; Grenville's interview with, ii. 145; gives Oswald conditions of the treaty of peace with America, ii. 165; and the treaty of peace, ii. 219
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, ii. 112; death of, ii. 370
Free Trade, ii. 14, 186, 220
French East India Company, i. 430
French men-of-war, Captain Howe's capture of, i. 61
French Revolution, ii. 368, 373, 402; Burke on the, ii. 375, 382
French war of 1755, i. 61
Friend, William, suppressed pamphlet by, ii. 348
Fullarton's, Mr., quarrel and duel with Lord Shelburne, ii. 52
Funds, speculation in the, during the negotiations for peace, ii. 199
Gage, General, Lord Shelburne's letter to, on American affairs, i. 305; proceeds to Boston, i. 475; recalled from Boston, i. 478
Ganganelli, the Pontificate of, ii. 58
Garbett, Mr., and his son, i. 274, 275; ii. 228
Garrick, David, i. 36; his lines on Mr. Baldwin, ii. 32
Gastaldi, the Genoese Minister, i. 362
Genoese, the relations of the, with France, i. 363; treaty with France, i. 364
Geoffrin, Madame, i. 425
George I., dislike of the mob to, i. 23; Lord Oxford and, i. 23
George II., political parties during the reign of, i. 38
George III., i. 24; accession of, i. 83; marriage of, i. 89 5 interview with Mr. Fox, i. 162; and George Grenville, i. 199; conversation with Lord Ashburton concerning the state of affairs in 1765-6, i. 257 5 his dislike of Lord Shelburne, i. 367; and the Whig party, i. 401; rejects the petitions of the American General Congress, i. 476; issues a proclamation for repressing rebellion,!. 482; speech on the American war, ii. i; on Lord Shelburne and Colonel Barri joining the Government, ii. 15, 17; on Lord Chatham, ii. 16, 17; and the Rockingham Administration, ii. 91; message to the House of Lords concerning the state of Ireland,
