am, his _Commentaries on the Laws of England_, 6, 261.

Blake, William, artist poet, 260.

Blanca, Florida (_corr._ Florida Blanca), 210, 319, 320.

Bligh, Captain, 263.

Bloomsbury gang, 87.

Bloomsbury Square. See London.

Bolingbroke, Viscount (St. John), his _Idea of a Patriot King_, 6.

Bompard, Admiral, 415.

Bonaparte, Joseph, 439.

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 375;
first Italian expedition, 380-383, 390, 397, 401, 402, 414;
his Egyptian campaign, 415-417;
his Syrian campaign, 418-420, 424, 431;
first consul, 432;
negotiates with England for peace, 433, 436;
second Italian expedition, 437;
offers peace to the emperor, 437, 438;
proposes naval armistice with Great Britain, 440;
makes a treaty with the United States, 442;
schemes against England, 443, 445.

_Bonhomme Richard_, the, 197.

Boscawen, Admiral, 15.

Boston, opposition to stamp act, 60, 61;
massacre, 109, 124, 125;
riot, 126-128;
port bill, 129;
harbour closed, 132, 138;
siege of, 139, 142;
evacuation of, 155, 157, 161, 179, 194, 198.

Bouille, Marquis de, 227.

Bounties, 273, 274;
corn, 404;
on importation of wheat, 435, 444, 445.

Bouquet, Colonel, 58.

Boydell, John, 263.

Braddock, General, 146.

Brandywine, battle of the, 174.

Brant, Joseph, Mohawk chief, 178.

Braxfield, Robert, Lord Braxfield (Macqueen), 357.

Breeds hill (U.S.A.), 148.

Bremen, 362.

Brest, 193, 197, 217, 226, 386, 390, 432.

Briand, Bishop, 152.

Bridgewater, Duke of (Egerton), 271.

Bridport, Viscount (Alexander Hood), admiral, 376, 387, 390.

Brindley, James, 271.

Bristol, Burke returned as member for, 136;
rejected, 212;
corporation of, 186;
petition from, 138.

Bristol, Earl of (George William Hervey), ambassador at Madrid, 27-29, 32.

Bristol, Earl of (Frederick Augustus Hervey), Bishop of Derry, 289.

Broglie, Marshal de, 14.

Brooklyn (Long Island), battle of, 164, 169.

Bruce, James, 264.

Brueys, Admiral, 416, 417.

Bruckenmuhle, battle of, 36.

Brune, French general, 430, 440.

Brunswick (Canada), 167, 169.

Brunswick, Charles, Duke of, 154.

Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, Prince and Duke of, 300, 336, 351,
354, 360.

Brunswick, Ferdinand, Prince of, 14, 36.

Brussels, 360;
French occupation of, 361.

Buccarelli, governor of Buenos Ayres, 113, 114.

Buckingham House. See London.

Buckingham, Marquis of. See Temple, Earl.

Buckinghamshire, Earl of