408.

Sheares, John, 408.

Sheerness, 393, 394.

Shelburne, Earl of (Fitzmaurice), afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, 49, 52;
secretary of state, 73, 80, 82;
resigns, 89, 128, 160, 188, 203, 204, 213, 228;
home secretary, 229, 230, 231, 238, 239;
first lord of the treasury, 240-245, 251, 287, 293, 336, 341, 359.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 246, 258, 286, 291, 294, 304, 308-311, 318,
335, 336, 359, 406, 447.

Shore, Sir John (afterwards Lord Teignmouth), 419.

Shuja-ud-Daula, 77, 248.

Siddons, Mrs., 258.

Sinking fund, 291-293, 332, 347.

Sistova, peace of, 326.

Skenesborough (U.S.A.), 177.

Slave trade, 295, 296, 323, 324, 404.

Smith, Adam, his _Wealth of Nations_, 137, 261, 269, 276, 277.

Smith, Colonel, 140.

Smith, Sir Sidney, 355, 402, 418, 419, 431, 432.

Smuggling, 267-268, 284;
hovering act against, 285.

Social progress. See England.

Societies, revolutionary, 335, 338, 358.

Somers, Lord, 352.

Soubise, Prince, 14, 36.

Spain, King of. See Charles III.

Spain, grievances of, against Great Britain, 24;
alliance with France, 24-30;
Great Britain declares war against, 33;
war with, 37-38;
navy of, 112;
dispute with Great Britain concerning the Falkland islands, 113, 114;
alliance of, with America, 181-183;
alliance with France against Great Britain, 196;
declares war against Great Britain, 196-200, 203, 208;
peace between Great Britain and, 242-243;
convention of 1786 with, 318;
discontent in Spanish America with, 319, 320;
treaty with Great Britain, 321;
joins the first coalition, 349;
abandons coalition, 363;
alliance of, with France, 381.

Spanish America. See Spain.

Speenhamland, 278.

Spencer, Earl, 340;
privy seal, 366;
first lord of the admiralty, 366, 393, 452.

Speyer, surrender of, 337.

Spitalfields riots. See London.

Spithead, 209;
mutiny at, 392, 393.

Stafford, Marquis of. See Gower, Earl.

Stamp act, 59-63, 69-71, 134.

Stanhope, Earl, 317, 359.

Stanley, Hans, diplomatist, 24-29, 32.

Staten island, 164.

Stephen, James, 324.

Sterne, Laurence, 260.

Steuben, Baron, 182.

Steyer, armistice signed at, 439.

Stirling, Lord (so-called), William Alexander, American general, 165.

Stockdale, John, publisher, 324.

Stormont, Lord (afterwards Earl of Mansfield), 115, 183;
secretary of state, 203, 210;
president of the council, 245, 369.

Strange, Lord, 71.

Stuart, James, gene