Egerton, Lady Sophia, most extraordinary anecdote of, respecting Byng’s execution, ii. [371].
Egmont, Lord, opposes Address in 1751, i. [8];
suspicion of treason, [9];
parliamentary discussion, [11];
political intrigues in Westminster, [14];
opposes the Mutiny Bill, [35], [40];
anecdote of him, [35];
curious opposition manœuvre on death of the Prince of Wales, [80], [81];
proposes to Lord Bolingbroke the renewal of feudal tenures as a popular act, [209];
ingenious speech on army estimates, [213];
speech against the Address, and opposition to the Mutiny Bill of 1753, [294], [295];
makes a ridiculous mistake in opposing the Mutiny Bill, [421];
is attacked by Charles Townshend, ib.;
copy of the constitutional queries ascribed to him, i. [9], [427].
Egremont, Earl of, moves address of condolence on the death of the Prince of Wales, i. [80];
declines to accept the seals on Pitt’s dismissal, iii. [2].
Epigram on Admiral Vernon, i. [100], [101].
Election Committees in the new parliament of 1754, i. [407].
Elections, general, policy of France respecting, in regard to the Pretender’s cause, i. [122];
purity of, infringed by the people themselves, [355].
Elijah’s Mantle, a political allusion, borrowed by Walpole from a poem by Sir C. H. Williams, i. [230].
Elliot, Commodore, engages and takes Thurot and squadron off the Isle of Man, iii. [265].
Ellis, Welbore, political character, and parallel with Lord Barrington, ii. [141], [142];
parliamentary tactics, by which Fox loses an important question, iii. [27].
Eloquence, parliamentary, review of it, ii. [144], et seq.