III. George I, George II, and Sir Robert Walpole

345. The characters of George I and George II

LORD CHESTERFIELD, Works, Vol. IV, App. pp. 1-7.

346. Attitude of George II toward England

LORD HERVEY, Memoirs, 1735, Vol. II, pp. 29-31; ed. 1848.
347. A letter concerning the South Sea Bubble, 1720

William Pultney to Daniel Pultney, in Memoirs of Sir
Robert Walpole, Vol. II, p. 194.

348. A letter from Walpole to Townshend concerning

secret-service money

Ibid. pp. 469-470.

349. Opposition to Walpole

572

573

574

575

Lord Bolingbroke to Sir William Wyndham, Ibid. Vol. III,
P. 555.

350. Resignation of Walpole

Walpole to the duke of Devonshire, Ibid. pp. 592-593.

351. Marquis of Hartington to duke of Devonshire

576

577

578

LORD CHESTERFIELD, Works, Vol. IV, App. pp. 35-41.

353. Character of Walpole

IV. The Rebellion of the Young Pretender and the Wes-

579

leyan Movement

354. Letters of Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann

Letters of Horace Walpole, Vol. I, pp. 384 sqq.; Vol. II,

pp. 18-19.

359. A French assertion of right to the country west of the

Alleghenies.

Royal Ministerial Minutes, trans. and pub. by E. B.
O'Callaghan, Documents relating to the Colonial History
of New York, Vol. X, pp. 242-243.

360. Instructions from the English government to the gov

ernors of the American colonies. Orders trans-

mitted by the earl of Holderness

Ibid. Vol. VI, p. 794.

361. A French account of Braddock's defeat

Ibid. Vol. X, pp. 303-304.

593

595

596

CHAPTER XVIII-THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION,

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND THE

FRENCH REVOLUTION

I. George III and the New Ministry

365. Personal description of George III just before he

became king

Memoirs of Earl Waldegrave, 1758, pp. 8 sqq.; ed. 1821.

604

605

II. The Industrial Revolution

370. Observations of Arthur Young in 1768

A Six Weeks Tour through the Southern Counties, pp.

19-88. Dublin, 1768.

371. The canals in the north of England

ARTHUR YOUNG, A Month's Tour in Northamptonshire,

etc. in 1791, Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful

Arts, Vol. XVI, pp. 532-533.

372. Machine manufacture in the north of England

Letter from a correspondent in Gloucester, 1781, in Annals

of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Vol. XVI, p. 422.

373. Notice of the death of Richard Arkwright..

Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol.

LXII, pt. 2, pp. 770-771.

374. Importance of the work of James Watt

PAGE

610

612

613

613

.

614

IV. The Struggle with the American Colonies

381. Speech of Lord Chatham on the troubles in America 623

JOHN ALMOND, Anecdotes of the Life of the Right Hon.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Vol. I, pp. 494-503.

383. Speech of Townshend on the taxation of the Ameri-

can colonies, 1767 .

626

HORACE WALPOLE, Memoirs of the Reign of George III,
Vol. III, pp. 28-32; ed. by Sir Lewis le Marchant.

384. A speech by Edmund Burke, 1775

628

Works, Vol. II, pp. 105-118. Boston, 1881.

385. Journal of an American exile in England

Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, pp. 61-176; ed. by

G. A. Ward. Boston, 1864.

631

386. Letters of George III to Lord North during the Amer-
ican war..

Correspondence of George the Third with Lord North from

1768 to 1783, Vol. I, pp. 2-227; ed. by W. B. Downe.

PAGE

634

387. The king's acknowledgment of American independence 636
King's speech on opening parliament, December 5, 1782,
Annual Register, 1783, pp. 311-312.

388. Presentation of the first American minister to England 637

Letter of John Adams to John Jay from Westminster, June

2, 1785, in JOHN ADAMS, Works, Vol. VIII, pp. 255-258.

Boston, 1853.

V. Dissatisfaction with the Government

389-390. Discussions and resolutions in parliament

New Annual Register, 1780, pp. 148-153.

391. The Lord George Gordon riots

640

641

SIR N. W. WRAXALL, Historical Memoirs of My Own
Time, Vol. I, pp. 323-341; ed. 1815.

392. Buying of seats in parliament.

Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly, Vol. II, pp. 200-202. Lon-

don, 1840.

393-394. Buying of seats in parliament

Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, Vol. II,

pp. 127-129.

VI. The French Revolution and the Wars of Napoleon

395. Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Works of Edmund Burke, Vol. III, pp. 240-332. Boston,

1881.

644

646

647

396. Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland .. 651

40 George III, c. 67, The Statutes Revised, Vol. II, p. 872.

PAGE

402-403. Contemporary opinions on the duke of Wellington 657
Parliamentary Debates, Vol. XXXI, pp. 971-993.

404. The news in England of the capture of Napoleon after

Waterloo

The London Times, July 25, 1815.

CHAPTER XIX-THE PERIOD OF REFORM

I. Contests between Conservatives and Radicals

405. An appeal to English laborers.

WILLIAM COBBETT, The Weekly Register, Nov. 2, 1816.

406-407. Letters concerning the riots of 1812 and 1819.

Colonel Lamy to Colonel Lord Rolle, and duke of Welling-

ton to Lord Sidmouth, in PELLEW, Life and Correspond-

ence of Lord Sidmouth, Vol. III, pp. 88-293.

408. An account of the Manchester massacre.

Sir W. J. H. Joliffe, lieutenant in the 15th Hussars, Ibid.

pp. 254-257.

660

663

665

667

410. Opinion of the Russian emperor on the English penal

code .

Ibid. p. 120.

411. Report of a parliamentary committee favoring repeal

of death penalty for many crimes

Report of Select Committee of the House of Commons on

Criminal Laws, 1820, pp. 352-357.

412. Testimony to prove inefficiency of the laws

Ibid. pp. 358–365.

413. The age and extent of the Roman Catholic Church

LORD MACAULAY, Essay on Von Ranke's History of the

Popes, Vol. VI, pp. 454-455. London, 1871.

669

670

673

674

414. The desirability of Roman Catholic emancipation

SYDNEY SMITH, Peter Plymley's Letters, Works, p. 452;

ed. 1844.

676