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CONTENTS.

[CHAPTER I.]

The King and Bute.

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25 Oct., 1760.[Accession of George III.][1]
[National feeling][1]
[The king's education and character][3]
[His plan of government][6]
[His first cabinet][8]
[Influence of the Earl of Bute][11]
[The civil list][13]
1761.[The war in Germany][13]
7 June.[Capture of Belle Ile][15]
[The king's covert attack on the whig ascendency][15]
[Opposing views with respect to the war][17]
[The general election of 1761][19]
25 Mar.[Bute secretary of state][20]
8 Sept.[The king's marriage][21]
[Bute's unpopularity][22]

[CHAPTER II.]

The Peace of Paris.

1761.[Negotiations for a peace][23]
[France and Spain act together in negotiation][25]
[Pitt maintains British honour and interests][26]
[Pitt and his colleagues][28]
5 Oct.[Pitt resigns office][31]
2 Jan., 1762.[The family compact. War declared against Spain][32]
[Frederick of Prussia offended][33]
25 April.[Newcastle's resignation. Bute succeeds to the treasury][34]
[The war in Germany][35]
[British conquests: Martinique, Havana, Manila][37]
[Negotiations with France][38]
[A majority in the commons secured][39]
[The terms of peace][40]
10 Feb., 1763.[Definitive treaty signed at Paris][42]
Mar.[The cider tax][43]
11 April.[Bute retires from office][44]

[CHAPTER III.]