Major-General, Commander-in-Chief in Hayti, 240, 245.
Ford, Captain, 513.
Fortiquerri, Marshal, 150 _n._
Foster, John (afterwards Baron Oriel), Irish Speaker, 393, 398;
interview with Pitt, 400, 401;
his opposition to the Union, 414, 418-420.
Foster, son of the Speaker, 412.
Fouche, Joseph, Duke of Otranto, 528, 529.
Fox, Charles James, gains ground with Nonconformists, 11, 12;
on the Army Estimates (1792), 30;
his Libel Bill, 33;
opposes proclamations against seditious writings, 36;
suggested coalition with Pitt, 36, 37;
unpatriotic speeches, 87-89, 91, 278, 333;
intimate with the French embassy, 89;
opposes the Aliens Bill, 94;
disapproves of the Radical Clubs, 168;
opposes erection of barracks, 169;
on the Scottish prosecutions, 179;
in favour of peace, 198, 276, 277;
on slaves in Jamaica, 238;
on the massacre of royalists at Quiberon, 262;
on the Treasonable Practices Bill, 285, 286;
on the Bank crisis (1797), 308, 309;
and the mutinies in the fleet, 312, 313, 316;
his "secession," 316, 330;
on the Finance Bills of 1797-8, 330, 370;
his name removed from the Privy Council, 333;
and Arthur O'Connor, 350;
his views on the Union and Federalism, 413;
on Pitt's resignation, 445;
intrigues with the Prince of Wales, 449, 497;
on the peace proposals, 470;
on the war (1803), 488;
on the Volunteers, 494;
alliance with Grenville, 496;
attack on Addington, 499;
the King objects to his inclusion in Pitt's ministry, 499, 500;
supports abolition of the Slave Trade, 502;
his motion of Catholic Emancipation, 518, 519;
opposes Pitt's burial in the Abbey, 559;
as an orator, compared with Pitt, 567;
mentioned, 24, 156, 165, 188, 191, 283, 293, 506, 517, 518, 555, 557,
562, 563.
France, the flight to Varennes, 1, 2, 4, 40;
change of ministry, 45;
declares war against Austria, 23, 46;
first signs of friction with England, 50;
the September massacres, 57, 59-62;
addresses of English clubs to the Convention, 65, _et seq._;
trial of the King decreed, 74, 85;
conquest of Belgium, 66, 69, 75, 83;
the November decrees, 71, 72, 75, 76, 114;
annexes Savoy, 72;
her designs on Holland, 73-76, 80, 82;
negotiations with England, 84, 95-99, 103-107;
decree of 15th December, 90, 91;
annexes Belgium, 111, 121;
declares war on England and Holland, 112;
evacuates the Netherlands, 126;
the Convention declares Pit
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