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  MEMOIRS

  OF THE REIGN OF

  KING GEORGE THE SECOND.


  VOL. III.


  [Illustration: M^R. PITT.
  London: Henry Colburn 1846.]




  MEMOIRS

  OF THE REIGN OF

  KING GEORGE THE SECOND.


  BY

  HORACE WALPOLE,

  YOUNGEST SON OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.


  EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS.

  WITH A PREFACE AND NOTES,

  BY THE LATE

  LORD HOLLAND.


  Second Edition, Revised.

  _WITH THE ORIGINAL MOTTOES._


  VOL. III.


  LONDON:
  HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
  GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
  1847.




CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.


              CHAPTER I.

  A. D.                                                           PAGE

  1757.  Dismissal and Resignation of Ministers                      1

         Efforts to form a new Administration                        2

         Parliamentary Inquiries into the Loss of Minorca            4

         Mr. Pitt’s Power and Popularity                             5

         Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Fox                            _ib._

         The Inquiries into the Loss of Minorca                      7

         No Ministry formed                                         11

         The Militia Bill passes                                  _ib._

         Great success of the King of Prussia                       12

         Various Plans for forming an Administration                14

         Vote of a Million                                          16

         Bill regulating payment of Seamen’s Wages                  19

         Duke of Newcastle’s irresolution                           21

         Rupture of Negotiation between Pitt and Newcastle          22

         Duke of Newcastle’s Projects and Difficulties            _ib._


              CHAPTER II.

  1757.  Prince of Wales interferes to facilitate arrangements      25

         Lord Waldegrave appointed First Lord of the Treasury       26

         Resignation of the Duke of Newcastle’s friends             27

         Author’s advice to Fox                                     28

         Lord Waldegrave’s projected Ministry abandoned--The
           King’s reluctant acquiescence                            30

         The new Ministry settled                                   31

         Charge on the Public                                       32

         Lord Waldegrave has the Garter                             34

         King of Prussia defeated by Daun                           36

         Battle of Hastenbecke                                    _ib._

         King overwhelmed with the misfortunes of Hanover           37

         Leicester House                                            38

         Disturbances on the Militia Bill                           40

         France                                                     42

         Expedition to Rochfort                                     44

         Officers employed on Expedition to Rochfort                45


              CHAPTER III.

  1757.  Isle of Aix                                                50

         Council of War                                             51

         Conway proposes an Attack on Fouras                        53

         Attack on Fouras fails                                     56

         Affairs in the East Indies                                 57

         Victory of the Prussians over the Russians               _ib._

         Convention of Closter Seven                                58

         The King disavows the Convention of Closter Seven          59

         The Duke’s return                                          60

         Duke’s reception at Court, and conduct thereupon           61

         The Duke resigns                                           64

         Affairs of Ireland                                         65

         State of Parties in Ireland                                68

         Inquiry into Miscarriages at Rochfort                      75

         Court-Martial                                              78

         Lord Mansfield of Cabinet                                  79

         Victories of the King of Prussia                           80

         Sir John Ligonier made Viscount and Marshal                81

         Death of Princess Caroline                                 82


              CHAPTER IV.

  1758.  Mr. Pitt                                                   84

         Five great men                                             85

         Lord Granville                                           _ib._

         Sir Robert Walpole                                         86

         Lord Mansfield                                           _ib._

         Duke of Cumberland                                       _ib._

         Mr. Pitt                                                 _ib._

         Five great men compared                                    87

         Parliament                                               _ib._

         Speech of Mr. Pitt                                         88

         King of Prussia takes Breslau                              90

         General Clive’s Victory                                  _ib._

         Military Appointments                                      