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(the younger) on, ii. 248; George III.'s letters to, ii. 251, 252; resigns office, ii. 252; remarks about Pitt, ii. 252; recommends Dr. Shipley to the see of Canterbury, ii. 262; procures a pension for Morellet, ii. 264; retires to the country, ii. 264; speech on the Sinking Fund Act, ii. 264; goes abroad, ii. 266; Walpole's opinion of his character, ii. 266; and the East India Bill, ii. 270, 282; letter to Thomas Orde on the same, ii. 275; his views on the Government of India, ii. 282; conversation with Morellet, ii. 284; his support of the Pitt Ministry, ii. 285; letters to Baring, ii. 288, 294; is offered a Marquisate, ii. 289; his letters to Colonel Barré thereon, ii. 290, 293; his letter to William Pitt accepting the Marquisate, ii. 292; is created Marquess of Lansdowne, ii. 294; conversations with Lord Caermarthen and Pitt, ii. 294; the "Rolliad " thereon, ii. 298; his speech on the French Treaty, ii. 301; altercation with the Duke of Richmond, ii. 303; his plans for the relief and education of the poor, ii. 304; his hatred of the Scotch, ii. 308; his art collections, ii. 310; his friendship with Jeremy Bentham, ii. 315; his account of Lord Ashburton, ii. 3185 his letter to Lord Cornwallis on the death of Lady Lansdowne, ii. 334; on Canning, ii. 335; on men and things, ii. 336; England, ii. 336; on being bound for other men, ii. 337; on agents, tenants, lawyers, etc., ii. 339, 347; anecdote of Sir William Petty, ii. 340; on economy and the management of estates, ii. 341 5; on country banks, ii. 342; on credit, ii. 342; on servants, i. 344; on family accounts, ii. 346; on auditors, ii. 347; on the clergy and laity, ii. 347; on Christianity, ii. 348; on the management of property, ii. 349; on farmers, ii. 350; on farm labourers, ii. 351; on forms of government, ii. 353 on boroughs, ii. 357; on Ireland, ii. 360; the Clergy in Ireland, ii. 362; on the management of Irish property, ii. 364; letter to Morellet on the Indian Question, ii. 369; on English politics in 1788, ii. 371; letter to Jeremy Bentham, ii. 375; letter to Morellet, ii. 376; on the French Revolution, ii. 379; George III. sends for him, ii. 384; Gillray's caricature of, ii. 384; his reply to the overtures of the King, ii. 384; on the Proclamation against seditious writings, ii. 388; moves a resolution for sending a Minister to France, ii. 390; letter to Morellet, ii. 392; letter to President Washington, ii. 394; and Charles J. Fox, ii. 396; letter to Lady Ossory, ii. 397; his difference with Colonel Barre, ii. 399; letter to Jeremy Bentham, ii. 399; on the war with France, ii. 402, 404; and the Traitorous Correspondence Bill, ii. 407; relations with Charles Fox, ii. 407; on Bank Notes, ii. 412; on the Morning Chronicle libel case, ii. 415; caricatures of, ii.418; on Catholic Emancipation, ii. 420, 421; on the Legislative Union of England and Ireland, ii. 421; on neutral rights, ii. 424; on America, ii. 425; interview with Lord Moira on a new Ministry, ii. 426; letter to Lord Holland on the peace, ii. 429; letter to Morellet on his sons, etc., ii. 429; his last speech in Parliament, ii. 432; letter to Lord Holland on his son, Lord Henry Petty, ii. 432; letter to the same on political affairs, ii. 433; conversation with Sir Richard Phillips as to the author of Junius, ii. 434; his death and burial, ii. 435; paper on Sepulchral Monuments, ii. 480
Shelburne, Lady (the first wife of Lord Shelburne), marriage, i. 222 ; extracts from her Diary, i. 268, 393 ; her negro boy, i. 396 ; account of Lord Shelburne's resignation of office, i. 398;
death of, i. 424
Shelburne, Lady (the second wife of Lord Shelburne, afterwards Lady Lansdowne), ii. 37 ; Jeremy Bentham's account of, ii. 325 ; her death, ii. 334
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, ii. 63 ; Under-secretary of State, ii. 90
Shoreham Act, ii. 72
"Short Money Bill," i. 346, 350
Shrewsbury, Lady, her card parties, i. 39
Shrimpton, Miss Kitty, i. 394
Sinecures and Pluralities in 1783, ii. 226
Sinking Fund, Dr. Price's scheme for it, ii. 64
Smith, Professor Adam, i. 18; and Lord Shelburne, ii. 431
Smith, "Bobus," ii. 394
Smuggling in the Colonies, i. 183
Social habits of the eighteenth century, i. 39
"Sons of Liberty," origin of the phrase, i. 223
Spain, war with, i. 102 ; the Ambassador to, i. 289 ; and the Falkland Islands, i. 286, 290, 405, 414, 418, 419; Lord Shelburne on the relations of Spain and England, i. 415; joins France against
