Garter, order of, honours granted on Pitt’s coming into administration, ii. [274]; iii. [34].
Gates (afterwards General), military and political anecdote, i. [400].
Geary, Capt. Francis, extraordinary conduct in regard to Byng’s trial, ii. [343].
GEORGE I., anecdote of the cancelling of his will, iii. [308];
burnt his own queen’s will, [313];
notice of his mistresses, [315].
GEORGE II. Return from Hanover in 1751, i. [3];
harshness towards the South Sea Company, [6];
approves of the young Whigs in parliament, [21];
his patronage of General Anstruther, [61];
candid opinion respecting his ministers, [62];
refuses to hear Bishop Secker preach at the Royal Chapel, [65];
behaviour on the demise of the Prince of Wales, [78];
marked condescension and tenderness to the prince’s family, [83];
conduct on the regency settlement, [99];
anecdote of his love of money, [105];
observations on the Commons’ amendments to the Regency Bill, [157], [158];
extraordinary self-command under political differences, [174];
his character, [175];
curious anecdote of his love of money, [176];
dislike to Lord Sandwich, and why, [187];
change of ministry and triumph of the Pelhams, [194];
gives advice to the new minister, and a reprimand to the Pelhams, [198], [199];
conversation with Mr. Fox, on the Duke of Cumberland’s dangerous accident, [212];
paternal feelings on the loss of his children, [227];
political interference with the election of the Romans, [240], [241];
visits Hanover in 1752, attended by the Duke of Newcastle, [278];
unlucky in his German alliances, [288];
returns to England, [289];
curbed by ministers in church preferments, [292];
his conduct respecting the charges against the prince’s tutors, [283], [309];
judicious conduct in the cabinet respecting the accusations against Fox, on occasion of the Marriage Bill, [352];
haughty reply to Lord Kildare’s memorial on the affairs of Ireland, [355];
his political character and influence in the state towards the close of his life, [376];
his feelings on the death of Pelham, [378];
his objections to Legge as a cabinet minister, [381];
conversation with Fox, on his declining the seals, [386];
also in regard to his partial opposition, [417];
informs the Commons of the French preparations for war, ii. [18];
determines to revisit Hanover, [20];
is alarmed for the safety of that electorate, [33], [34];
returns, just as opposition begins to the German treaties, [41];
comes to an accommodation with the King of Prussia respecting Germany, [152];
his feelings towards Hanover, [170];
bon mot of Doddington on his avarice, [186];
proposes taking the prince from his mother’s tuition, [207], et seq.;
his feelings on the change of ministry and Pitt’s accession to power, [254], [266];
refuses to read Pitt’s long speech, and sends it back to be shortened, [276];
sends a complimentary gratulation to the French king on his escape from assassination, which is well received, [283];
deceived by the Newcastle administration in regard to Byng, [294], [306];
refuses Pitt’s solicitation for mercy, [331];
but consents to a temporary reprieve, ib.;
his dislike to long speeches in the cabinet, [378];
left without a ministry in 1757, iii. [11];
Hanover occupied by the French, [12];
refuses their offer of neutrality for that electorate, ib.;
demands support from parliament during the contests of parties for power, [16];
his personal feelings strongly expressed, [30];
loses Hanover for a time, [36];
conduct on the affair of Closter Seven, [59];
anecdotes of munificence, [100];
prohibits Sackville’s appearance at court, [273];
death, [302];
character of, [303], [304], [305].
GEORGE III., vide [Prince George].
German Treaties, and their consequences, ii. [34], et seq., [103].
Germany, political state of, in 1751, i. [7];
unfortunate turn of politics there, [81];
our politics in regard to the election of the Archduke Joseph of Austria, as king of the Romans, [204];
affairs arranged with the King of Prussia, ii. [152];
Empress-Queen joins with France, [219], [220];
origin and causes of the war, [231], [232];
a French army sent to the Rhine, [373];
Hanover occupied by the French, its neutrality offered by them, but rejected, iii. [12];
successes of the King of Prussia in Bohemia, [13];
campaign of 1757, [57];
convention of Closter Seven, [58];
campaign of 1758, [90];
successes of the King of Prussia and Prince Ferdinand, [123], [127], et seq.;
state of the English army, [147];
advantages taken of English liberality, [174];
campaign of 1759, [188];
Pitt labours to increase our army there, [226];
objects of the war, [247];
campaign of 1760 in, [289-297].
Gibraltar, vide [Byng], [Minorca], and [Galissoniere].
Gibson, the upholsterer, contumacy on the Westminster petition, i. [22];
committed to Newgate, ib.;
petitions, is reprimanded and released, [32].