Waldegrave, General, by a well-timed manœuvre, gains the battle of Minden, iii. [198].
Wales, Frederick, Prince of, renewed intercourse with the Pitt party, i. [12];
conduct of his party on the Westminster petition, [28];
party politics, [39], [47];
death, and its political consequences, [72], [86];
his character, ib., et seq.;
his debts, [87];
songs by, [432], [433], [434].
Wales, Princess of, character and anecdotes, i. [76];
behaviour on death of the Prince, [77];
education of her children, [79];
kindness of the king, [83];
changes in her household, [92];
the regency affair, [99], et seq., [139], [146], et seq.;
the Princess Matilda, a posthumous child, born, [201];
differences in the tutorship of the Prince of Wales, [284];
appears in public with the same honours as the late queen, [289];
interference in the politics of the day, [418];
her projects for governing her son, ii. [36];
conduct in regard to his proposed marriage, ib.;
interference in politics, [39];
opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, [47];
her conduct on the prince attaining majority, [204], [205];
anecdotes of Lord Bute, [205];
proposed plan of removing the prince, [221];
Leicester-house politics and change of ministry, [249], et seq.;
total rejection of Fox’s overtures, in 1757, at Leicester-house, iii. [6];
further manœuvres, [25], [30], [121].
Wall, General, political anecdote of, i. [398].
Walpole, Horace, moves the address in the Commons in 1751, i. [8];
his sarcasms against the Devonshires accounted for, [196];
praiseworthy candour, [233], [234], et seq.;
the pretended memorial on the education of the Prince of Wales, [298];
his part in the breach between Pitt and Lyttelton, [414];
and of a union between Pitt and Fox, [415];
speech on the Swiss regiments, ii. [163];
applied to by Fox on his rupture with the Duke of Newcastle, but declines interference, [254], [255];
urges Keppel to apply to be absolved from his oath, [327];
extraordinary fact relative to Byng’s affair, [370];
advice to Fox, to save him from the precipice of political ruin, iii. [28];
observations on, and apologies for, his work, [158];
draws his own character, [159].
Walpole, old Horace, political character, with anecdotes, i. [140], et seq.;
his remarkable speech on the Saxon treaty, [242];
speech and vote different, [254].
Walpole, Lord, his replies to Lord Bolingbroke’s letters and principles, i. [222].
Walpole, Sir Robert, inconsistency of his political opponents at close of the Spanish war, i. [7];
witticism on Sir W. Yonge, [23];
financial expertness, [32];
politic advice to the Duke of Cumberland, [105];
his reasons for supporting the Duke of Newcastle, [163];
contrasted with Bolingbroke, [225];
parallel between him and Pelham, [229], et seq.
War of 1756, as so called, first announced to the House of Commons by order of the King, ii. [18].
Warburton, Dr., promoted to the see of Gloucester, iii. [239].