(Hobart), Viceroy of Ireland, 202.

Buckinghamshire, Lady, 257.

Buenos Ayres, expedition against, 38.

Bunbury, Sir Charles, 257, 260.

Bunker hill, battle of, 148-150, 152, 155, 185.

Burgoyne, Sir John, general, 37, 122, 145, 147, 155, 156, 166, 172-181,
183, 186, 191.

Burke, Edmund, speech on American colonies, 70, 89, 99;
opposed to parliamentary reform, 105;
_Thoughts on the Causes of the Present Discontents_, by, 106, 107, 110,
116-121, 127-130, 136, 137, 139, 145, 160, 169, 170, 188, 192, 200-202;
economical reform, 203, 204, 212, 213, 217, 226;
paymaster of forces, 229, 240, 246, 247, 249, 250, 253, 255, 261, 265,
266, 268;
opposes Pitt's India bill, 286, 288, 302-304, 314, 322, 327;
_Reflections on the French Revolution_, by, 329;
quarrel with Fox, 330;
_Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs_, by, 330, 333, 339-342;
on war with France, 347;
retires from parliament, 366;
urges relief of catholic disabilities, 367;
_Letter on a Regicide Peace_, by, 382, 385;
death of, 396.

Burkersdorf, battle of, 36.

Burney, Fanny (Madame d'Arblay), 260.

Burns, Robert, 260.

Bushy Run, Indians defeated at, 58.

Bussy, Comte de, 24-27.

Bute, Earl of (Stuart), 5;
enters cabinet, 8, 11, 12;
acts with Pitt, 15;
his insincerity, 17;
his peace policy, 17;
his power secured, 19-20;
secretary of state, 20-23, 26, 28, 29, 31-34;
first lord of the treasury, 35, 42, 43;
retires from office, 44, 45;
king's private adviser, 45-49, 51-52, 65, 66;
ceases to be, 67, 112, 187.

Butler, John, colonel, 178, 194.

Byron, Commodore, 263.

Cabinet, changes in the character of the, 7-9;
system, 7-9, 33, 229;
George III.'s first, how composed, 8;
councils, reports and notices of, 8, 12, 28-30, 35, 60, 70, 76, 90,
206, 229, 238, 246, 310, 312, 369, 383, 452;
sovereign ceases to preside over council, 12.

Cadiz, 199, 211, 388, 390, 395, 439.

Caesar's camp, capture of, 350, 351.

Caldiero, 390.

Calonne, French minister, 331.

Cambrai, 360.

Cambridge (U.S.A.), 143, 148, 151.

Camden, 219;
battle of, 220, 223.

Camden, Charles, first Earl (Pratt), chief justice of the common pleas, 47;
created Baron Camden, 68, 71;
chancellor, 74, 76, 90, 100, 101;
dismissed from office, 102, 116;
lord president of the council, 229, 287, 324.

Camden, John Jeffries, second Earl, 370, 385, 412.

Campbell, Colonel, 195.

Camperdown, batt